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A practical guide to reading official UFO and UAP records

Official records can confirm investigations, dates, agencies, and evidence categories, but they do not automatically confirm extraordinary interpretations.

A document is strongest when it is primary, dated, attributable, and connected to the event being studied. Later summaries, reposted files, and sensational excerpts should be handled as secondary material unless the original source is available.

The archive uses official sources to anchor chronology and institutional context, then separates that context from witness interpretation, media repetition, and later mythology.