How to read this record

One stamp on every claim.

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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.

DocumentedA primary document, official report or dataset exists — and it is named and linked, so you can go and read it yourself.
TestimonySomeone stated this on the record or under oath. The statement is verifiable. The claim inside it is not.
DisputedCredible, qualified people actively disagree. Both positions are given, with who holds them.
UnsupportedWidely repeated, but no evidence has been produced. Who says it, and what is missing.
ResolvedInvestigated and explained — including some very famous cases. The explanation is given, and who established it.
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.

How this room was built

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.

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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