Two measurements of the same 136 episodes, and both of them ask one question: when this show raises a subject, how often does it go and look?
Every number here is re-derivable. The ratio rows print the regular expression that produced each side, and the ledger counts a document as retrieved only when it was actually opened.
This page used to carry the whole project on one screen — the method, the anomaly sites, Mars, the guest research and the portfolio, stacked under a single heading. They were never one investigation. The rubric now lives on method, the sites in the anomaly atlas, the Mars claims in the Mars ledger, the guest work in prep cards, and the shipped software in cases.
Both sides of each row are episode counts over the same 136 episodes, produced by one regular expression each, so any reader can re-run them and get the same number.
| Discussed | eps | Examined | eps | gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Reverse-engineering recovered craft
reverse[- ]engineer|back[- ]engineer|legacy program |
81 | The one material with a published isotopic analysis (Ubatuba)
ubatuba |
3 | 27.0× |
Crash retrieval programmes
crash retrieval|recovered (craft|vehicle)|legacy program |
65 | Peer review, mentioned at all
peer[- ]review |
24 | 2.7× |
Evidence, as a word
\bevidence\b |
119 | A FOIA request or a declassified document, named
\bfoia\b|freedom of information|declassified |
51 | 2.3× |
Telepathy as a mode of contact
telepath |
52 | A replication or a control group
replicat|control group|double[- ]blind|preregist |
49 | 1.1× |
This is not an argument that the show is careless. It is the measurement a researcher would want before pitching: the gap between what a subject is discussed about and what has been examined is exactly where an unclaimed story sits, and it is where the one material with a published analysis turns out to say the isotopes were terrestrial.
The patterns are printed with the counts because a ratio whose definition is hidden is rhetoric. Change the regular expression and the number changes; that is the point.
362 hours of conversation turned into a research index with an identifier per row and an honest retrieval rate — something the show itself does not have.
The rule that makes the index worth anything is that named and retrieved are different states and are never blurred. A document that could not be opened is marked unretrieved and stays in the count, which is why the rate is reported against both denominators rather than the flattering one.
The unretrieved list is the most immediately useful output of the whole project: it is an ordered week of archive work, sorted by how often the show already relies on each document without anyone having pulled it.
Ranked by how often the corpus already leans on a document it has not opened. This is the ordered week of archive work.
USAF Project Blue Book records (NARA Record Group 341 / microfilm; Fold3 / NARA releases)
Archive collection real; not bulk-retrieved this session. cited heavily across corpus.
U.S. criminal case against Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer (1950s fraud related to alleged UFO tech — exact docket not spoken)
Historically attested prosecutions; CourtListener search not completed this session.
House Oversight Subcommittee hearing "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security…" 26 July 2023 (Grusch, Fravor, Graves)
Hearing is real public record. Full official transcript/video not pulled this session — retrieved:false.
AARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1 (DoD, March 2024) — corpus also refers to the office generically
Office and public historical report are real. PDF not scraped this session.
Alleged AFOSI "Aquarius" document mentioning MJ-12 (linked to Doty/Moore chain)
Named in Bennewitz/Doty context. No authentic AFOSI release of an "Aquarius" MJ-12 document verified.
Corpus cites a declassified CIA document on Psychological Strategy Board unifying psychological warfare — exact CREST id not spoken
PSB was a real body; specific CREST id not given in transcript. real=false for the unnamed document.
Operation Upshot-Knothole (1953 Nevada Test Site nuclear test series) — mission/personnel reports
Historical test series is real. Specific "declassified report" naming Stansel not retrieved.
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (University of Colorado / USAF contract; Bantam 1969); Air Force Study 44620Y67C-0035
Identifier and archive location real (ncas.org Condon pages widely cited; archive.org full text exists). Full PDF not scraped this session — retrieved:false.
USAF Projects Sign (1948) and Grudge (1949) — predecessors to Blue Book
Historically attested USAF projects; primary case files in Blue Book/NARA holdings. Not opened this session.
Battelle Memorial Institute / Project Blue Book-related memo discovered by Jacques Vallée in Blue Book files (often called "Pentacle")
Named in corpus (4 eps). Searched Firecrawl for primary PDF; returned secondary book citations (Vallée Forbidden Science) but no archival scan opened this session. real=true as a known Blue Book-file artifact discussed in literature; retrieved=false.