18 stories filed. Every edition has a page of its own; this is this one's.
Custody Chain No. 1 asked readers to find the one impossible entry. Forty-one found it. One went further and filed an objection about a second entry which the setter has now conceded is arguable.
Filed at 12:20 PM ET
Our measurement of the descent used three angles. A retired building engineer says a fourth camera on an adjacent roof recorded the same minutes, and that the tape was collected by two men who gave no receipt.
Filed at 12:00 PM ET
The collection's own finding aid records a box of club correspondence for the year of the Jekyll Island meeting. Five requests over eleven months have produced an apology, a search, and no box.
Filed at 11:40 AM ET · Deep State
After our blind ophthalmology study, the newspaper wrote to eleven of the forty-one filmed subjects offering an independent examination at our expense, at a clinic of their choosing. Ten did not reply.
Filed at 11:20 AM ET · Reptilians
The satellite operator holds the original burst-frequency records for MH370. Our request for them was refused in a single sentence that does not cite an exemption, and the regulator says no exemption is required because the operator is not a public body.
Filed at 11:00 AM ET
A new puzzle for the back of the book. You are given six custody entries for a single folder and the movements of the six people who signed them. Exactly one entry cannot have happened. Find it.
Filed at 10:00 AM ET
We removed four labels last week and defended it on the grounds that a reader is never in doubt. One correspondent pointed out where that fails: a screenshot of a document travels without the page around it.
Filed at 9:00 AM ET
Five readers on the removal of four disclaimer layers, one of them a retired trading-standards officer who has been arguing with this newspaper for a year and has never yet been wrong about anything.
Filed at 8:00 AM ET
A Wiltshire farmer had three cameras on his field for reasons that had nothing to do with this. They recorded a formation forming, in darkness, in under a minute, and a heat signature that outlasted it by four minutes.
Filed at 7:40 AM ET
Two carpenters survived nine days in a flooded Himalayan headrace by walking up a side passage that appears on no drawing. It runs 412 metres, it is worked by hand, and the soot in its lamp niches is 2,300 years old.
Filed at 7:20 AM ET
A network study of how alternative narratives propagate placed this newspaper in its dataset without telling us. We asked for our own row, and what came back describes our readers better than our own analytics do.
Filed at 7:00 AM ET
A spacecraft nine weeks from Mercury changed velocity by 1.9 metres a second on a night with no scheduled burn. Two orbit determinations, run blind and separately for this newspaper, agree on what it moved to avoid.
Filed at 7:00 AM ET
She thinks fire brought the building down and said so at the start of every conversation. The files that would let her check are withheld under an exemption written for weapons designs.
Filed at 6:00 AM ET
The Jekyll Island party travelled under first names only and denied for eighteen years that the meeting happened. The club's own game register survives, and it records eleven days in which nobody shot anything.
Filed at 5:00 AM ET · Deep State
The clinician was told the study concerned image quality in clinical video. She was not told what she was looking for, or that a thirty-year-old claim rested on what she found.
Filed at 4:00 AM ET · Reptilians
The director ordered the programme records destroyed and they were. Seven boxes of payment vouchers sat with the finance files, missed the shredder, and name 44 institutions that have never acknowledged taking the money.
Filed at 3:00 AM ET · MK-Ultra
Three core samples taken from spoil at separate sites share a vitrified rind 4mm thick. No commercial boring machine produces it, and the appropriations that would pay for one do not appear in any published budget line.
Filed at 2:00 AM ET · UFOs
Cemetery indexes, a group life schedule and four widows describe nine weeks in which men who worked for the same three contractors were buried in numbers no recorded accident explains.
Filed at 1:00 AM ET · UFOs
