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Only real archival material. No AI-generated or recoloured images are used as archival material; colour originals are shown in black and white and say so. Nothing goes on the site without a line here.

Intro film (v4)

The film credits its sources on its end card. The same list, with the status of our own source check: a row marked [TO VERIFY] is not yet in our photo register.

  • Ronald Reagan, UN General Assembly address, 21 September 1987Reagan Library, CC BY 3.0
  • Roswell Daily Record, front page, 8 July 1947Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
  • US Navy FLIR1 video (Department of Defense release, 2020)PD-USGov (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Giza, photograph by F. Bonfils, c. 1870–88Museo Egizio, Turin, CC0 · TO VERIFY
  • Puma PunkuJanikorpi, CC BY-SA 3.0 · TO VERIFY
  • Emerald Tablet, engraving by H. Khunrath, 1606Public domain · TO VERIFY
  • Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa), photograph by Ardon Bar HamaPublic domain · TO VERIFY

As stated in the film: archival material unaltered except grayscale, crop and grain; no AI-generated imagery. Made by Archivist for Majestic Archive. Earlier intro versions are documented in CREDITS.md in the repository.

Photographs and clips (register)

Everything the site is allowed to show, from two registers: assets/photos/sources.csv (per file) and assets/archive/collection.csv (the central collection of period black-and-white material). A file not in these lists cannot appear on a page: the build refuses it.

Roswell, 1947

  • Roswell Daily Record front page, 8 July 1947: 'RAAF Captures Flying Saucer'Roswell Daily Record · Public domain (Commons) · Public domain (Commons) · source
  • Maj. Jesse Marcel with debris, Fort Worth, 8 July 1947Fort Worth Star-Telegram (J. Bond Johnson) · PD-US-not renewed · PD-US-not renewed · source
  • Gen. Roger Ramey with memo and debris, Fort Worth, 1947J. Bond Johnson / Fort Worth Star-Telegram · PD-US-no notice · PD-US-no notice · source
  • Close-up crop of the memo in Gen. Ramey's hand, Fort Worth, 1947 (Commons file name says Ramey and DuBose)Fort Worth Star-Telegram · PD-US-not renewed · PD-US-not renewed · source
  • Map from the USAF Roswell Report: debris field and claimed crash sitesUnited States Air Force · PD-USGov · PD-USGov · source

USS Nimitz, 2004

  • Official FLIR1 video (DoD release 2020), 76 sU.S. Navy · PD-USGov (Commons) · PD-USGov (Commons) · source
  • Still at t=5 s from FLIR1U.S. Navy · PD-USGov (Commons) · PD-USGov (Commons) · source
  • Still at t=30 s from FLIR1U.S. Navy · PD-USGov (Commons) · PD-USGov (Commons) · source
  • Still at t=70 s from FLIR1U.S. Navy · PD-USGov (Commons) · PD-USGov (Commons) · source
  • Flight operations on the deck of USS Nimitz, 24 Aug 2004 (colour)U.S. Navy (Airman Maebel Tinoko) · PD-USGov-Military-Navy · PD-USGov-Military-Navy · source
  • USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan off southern California, 16 Nov 2004 (colour)U.S. Navy (PH3 Elizabeth Thompson) · PD-USGov-Military-Navy · PD-USGov-Military-Navy · source

Belgian UFO wave, 1989–90

  • Belgian Air Force F-16 (modern, colour; not a 1989 photo, type illustration only)Clemens Vasters (Flickr) · CC BY 2.0 (naamsvermelding verplicht) · CC BY 2.0 (naamsvermelding verplicht) · source

Intro film (Reagan, 1987)

  • 40 s clip (from 29:20) of the UN address, 21 Sep 1987, with the 'alien threat' passage, original with audioReagan Library · CC BY 3.0 (naamsvermelding Reagan Library) · CC BY 3.0 (naamsvermelding Reagan Library) · source
  • Same clip, no audio, grayscale (derived by us)Reagan Library · CC BY 3.0 (naamsvermelding Reagan Library) · CC BY 3.0 (naamsvermelding Reagan Library) · source
  • Still from the clip (colour)Reagan Library · CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 · source
  • Still from the clip (colour)Reagan Library · CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 · source
  • Still from the clip (colour)Reagan Library · CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 · source
  • Still from the clip (colour)Reagan Library · CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 · source

dead sea scrolls

  • Dead Sea Scrolls · 1948Willem van de Poll, Nationaal Archief / Anefo · CC0 · source
  • Dead Sea Scrolls · 1948Willem van de Poll, Nationaal Archief / Anefo · CC0 · source
  • Dead Sea Scrolls · 1948Willem van de Poll, Nationaal Archief / Anefo · CC0 · source
  • Entrance of the Qumran cave where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found · 1948Willem van de Poll, Nationaal Archief / Anefo · CC0 · source

nikola tesla

  • Nikola Tesla · circa 1895Napoleon Sarony / Marc Seifer Archives — Public domain · Public domain · source
  • Nikola Tesla, with his equipment (restored version) · circa 1899Unknown / https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/4c/6e/da5709a57832dbbb048ba4a17fe6.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0014782.ht — Public domain · Public domain · source
  • Wardenclyffe Tower · circa 1902Unknown / http://www.teslascience.org/archive/descriptions/WP003.htm — Public domain · Public domain · source

mkultra

  • Photograph of President Gerald R. Ford Receiving the Report of the Commission on C.I.A. Activities within the United Sta · 6 June 1975Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided / U.S. National Archives and Records Administration — Public domain · Public domain · source
  • Sidney Gottlieb photo · unknownUS Federal Government / https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments-focus-new-scholarly — Public domain · Public domain · source

oumuamua

  • Artist’s impression of the interstellar asteroid `Oumuamua · 2018-06-27 19:00:00ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser / https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1820a/ — CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 · not a period original · source
  • Pan-STARRS Observatory (2019-12-4315) · 28 January 2019 (upload date)R. Ratkowski / Pan-STARRS Observatory — Public domain · Public domain · not a period original · source
  • Oumuamua skypath-sun · 2017-12-01Tomruen / Own work — CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 · not a period original · source

vatican observatory

  • Pietro Angelo Secchi LCCN2008677108 · 1878Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress / Library of Congress Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2008677108 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c30000/3c37000/3c37600/3c37699v.jpg — Public domain · Public domain · source
  • Castel Gandolfo specola vaticana 1 by Stefano Bolognini · 2008-04-25Stefano Bolognini / Own work — Attribution · Attribution · not a period original · source
  • VaticanObservatory VATT · 2010-12-07Jjstott / Own work — CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 · not a period original · source

consciousness

  • Descartes: The Nervous System. Diagram of the brainUnknown / https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/52/91/ce0d6d885156238081ff274237b7.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0006584.ht — CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 · source
  • Treatise of Manlabel QS:Lde,"Illustration des Dualismus" · before 1651René Descartes / Stephen Gaukroger, ed. (1998) Descartes: The World and Other Writings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511605727. ISBN: 9780 — Public domain · Public domain · source
  • HansBerger Univ Jena · circa 1920Unknown authorUnknown author / http://www.psychiatrie.uk-j.de/Geschichte.html — Public domain · Public domain · source

fine tuned universe

  • Hubble ultra deep field · between 3 September 2003 and 16 January 2004NASA and the European Space Agency. / http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07/image/a/warn/ — Public domain · Public domain · not a period original · source
  • WMAP 2012 · 2012-12-21 22:30:50NASA / WMAP Science Team / http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/121238/ilc_9yr_moll4096.png — Public domain · Public domain · not a period original · source
  • FlammarionWoodcut · 1888AnonymousUnknown author / Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), pp. 163 — Public domain · Public domain · source

Fonts

  • Special Elite (typewriter: folder titles, stamps, the site name)Astigmatic · SIL Open Font License 1.1 · self-hosted
  • IBM Plex Mono (labels)IBM · SIL Open Font License 1.1 · self-hosted
  • Body textyour system’s sans-serif, nothing downloaded

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