How to read this record
One stamp on every claim. This is the whole method — and it is what separates an archive from a pile of assertions.
Why the wreckage is kept in the same room as the exhibits
This archive keeps the hoaxes and the solved cases on display alongside everything else, and that is a deliberate choice in favour of the affirmative case — not against it.
A collection that shows only mysteries is a poster. The first person who knows about the Roswell slides or the Nazca mummies uses them to dismiss the entire room. But a collection that says here is what was demolished, and here is what is still standing after all of that — that is much harder to wave away. The wreckage is the moat.
“Unidentified” is a strong claim, and a defensible one
Unidentified means unidentified. It does not mean extraterrestrial, and this archive never quietly slides from one to the other. But note what it also does not mean: it does not mean “nothing happened.”
When a national government, after investigating with radar, infrared and trained observers, records a case as unexplained — that is a documented fact about the limits of the best available analysis. Blue Book left 701 of them. France's GEIPAN still logs a stable fraction in category D. That residue is the strongest ground the affirmative case has, precisely because it survived people trying to remove it.
Interests declared, in both directions
Where a named figure has a book, a documentary, a media business or an institutional stake, this archive notes it — and applies that equally to proponents and to skeptics. A financial interest does not make someone wrong. Not disclosing it makes your job harder.
Twenty independent researchers assembled the material, each required to name issuing bodies and dates and to flag anything unverifiable rather than guess. A separate adversarial fact-checker then read the whole corpus hunting for testimony dressed as fact, contradictions between exhibits, and invented specifics — and found several, which were corrected before the doors opened.
Errors will remain. Where you find one, the stamps should at least make it obvious what kind of error it is.
Where to start
Twenty-three exhibits, each on its own page. These four are the argument.
If you read four pages, read these
Or take the whole thing at once
The full archive puts every exhibit on a single page for reading end to end or printing. It is deliberately heavy.
UFO.jelia.nyc — The Record Room. Last surveyed 8 August 2026.
Every exhibit carries a stamp for the kind of evidence behind it. Documents are named and linked so you can read them yourself. Where qualified people disagree, both positions are shown. Where something has been explained, the explanation stays on display — including for cases once presented as unexplainable.
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