The helicopters
Helicopters keep turning up beside the objects. Some meet them by chance; some, like the Chinooks around the Cash-Landrum diamond, fly with them; and some, by Barber's account, carry them away. Are they escorts, chasers or the retrieval teams themselves?
The voices it opens with
Before UAP Trail says a word, the video lets others speak. Each clip is linked at its second in the video.
The claim, in UAP Trail’s words
“Where the objects are, helicopters often follow; the later the record, the more it looks like recovery.”
Our reading across 8 records
How it split
The central claim drawn as a tree. Each branch is a part of the story that went its own way, splitting at UAP Trail’s turning points. Line weight is UAP Trail’s sense of how much each branch holds. Click a branch, a fork or a dot.
Encounters
How it unfolds: two eras
Encounters and escorts
Recovery flights
What carries it
Every event in the narrative, sorted by what it rests on. The on-record events are the skeleton; the rest is what UAP Trail hangs on it.
See also
Round 1's "retrieval teams" (Barber, Bales, Stratton).