Ordered to fire
For sixty years air forces in nine countries on our record chased these objects, and some were ordered to shoot. Until 2023 the jets could not close, the guns would not bear or the weapons failed. Then the shooting began to work: Lake Huron, a Chinese "prepare to shoot" notice, the White Sands lure.
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.
Scrambled with orders to shoot; the engines flamed out at 55,300 ft.
Imam zahvat u radaru. (I have a radar lock.) The missiles would not respond.
An unidentified flying object found in waters near Rizhao, preparing to shoot it down.
The claim, in UAP Trail’s words
“Until 2023, every attempt on our record to engage one of these objects failed; since then, objects are being brought down.”
Our reading across 25 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.
The chase
How it unfolds: three eras
The intercepts
Orders to fire
The shoot-downs
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.
How to read it
The trunk is the chase, the default response. The order branch forks off where commanders authorise weapons; from it come the failures (Tehran, La Joya) and, from 2023, the shoot-downs. The losses branch is loose because its two cases are the weakest here.