The Vault

Every document this newspaper has cited, with its chain of custody — and the documents we refused.

A document is only worth as much as the account of how it reached us. The Vault holds the 61 documents They Buried has accepted and cited, each with a provenance statement written by Nadia Ferreira-Ost and signed off by an editor. Where a document's chain of custody has a gap, we say where the gap is.

We also publish what we turned down. A newspaper that only shows you its good documents is showing you a curated hand.

Accepted & cited

Code	Document	Origin	Dated	Pages	Cited in
PX-1104	Invitation to the Midsummer Encampment, addressed to W. R. Frost PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE	Bohemian Club, San Francisco	14 April 2011	2	2
PX-1330	Federal Aviation Administration primary-return anomaly log, Sector 41, extract FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	Federal Aviation Administration	March 2019 – February 2026	211	9
PX-1402	Denver International Airport, Concourse D substructure — mechanical drawings, sheets 1–6 of 19 CONTRACTOR COPY — NOT FOR ISSUE	A mechanical subcontractor, since dissolved	1992	6	8
PX-1455	Minutes of an unnamed monetary conference, Jekyll Island, Georgia NO CIRCULATION	Private papers of a conference attendee	22–30 November 1910	34	3
PX-1560	Patent application 4,112,889 — 'Apparatus for Asymmetric Capacitive Displacement' — with examiner correspondence PUBLIC RECORD, WITHDRAWN	United States Patent and Trademark Office	Filed 1977; withdrawn 1979	61	4
PX-1612	Traffic-composition audit, a mid-sized advertising exchange COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE	An advertising technology firm, via a former employee	Q4 2025	18	2
PX-1670	Regional blood service — serological register, anonymised extract ANONYMISED CLINICAL DATA	A regional blood service	2011–2025	9	2
PX-1701	Point Pleasant field notebook, S. Brindisi, vols. 3–4 REPORTER'S NOTES	This newspaper	September 2025 – July 2026	188	3
PX-1788	Lunar seismometer network, long-period event catalogue, unofficial compilation COMPILED FROM PUBLIC ARCHIVES	A retired network engineer	Compiled 2024 from 1969–1977 data	76	9
PX-1844	MERIDIAN — covering letters accompanying the 1987 and 1994 endowments PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE	Unknown	9 February 1987; 22 October 1994	2	5
PX-1901	Extraction schedule A — grain quota tablet, Ur III MUSEUM STORE, ACCESSIONED 1931	University museum, Philadelphia	c. 2040 BCE	1	6
PX-1903	Extraction schedule B — copper quota tablet, Ur III MUSEUM STORE, ACCESSIONED 1931	University museum, Philadelphia	c. 2035 BCE	1	5
PX-1908	Adeleke-Sørvaag, concordance of Ur III administrative closing formulae (1998), §4 PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP	A university press	1998	340	7
PX-1912	Four raw satellite radar passes over the Giza plateau, purchased by this newspaper COMMERCIAL IMAGERY, PURCHASED	A commercial satellite operator	April 2026	4	10
PX-1920	Minute books of an unnamed shipping committee, 1949–1991, 24 volumes PUBLIC ARCHIVE, SHIPPING SERIES	Port of Rotterdam historical archive	1949–1991	2914	9
PX-1938	Contemporaneous notes of a forty-minute telephone interview, 12 July 2026 REPORTER'S NOTES	This newspaper	12 July 2026	9	2
PX-1944	Reconstructed pedigrees, nine families, 1644–present — two independent genealogies COMPILED FROM PUBLIC REGISTERS	Parish, civil and probate registers, four countries	Compiled 2025–26 from records 1644–1974	212	8
PX-1951	ROV Wren dive footage, stern section, 14 June 2026 — 11h 06m, unedited THIS NEWSPAPER'S OWN SURVEY	MV Kestrel Firth, chartered by They Buried	14 June 2026	—	1
PX-1957	Forestry Commission stand map and felling record, Rendlesham plantation, 1981 PUBLIC RECORD, RELEASED ON REQUEST	Forestry Commission	1981	3	2
PX-1968	Nine hundred drawings from memory, with the pre-registration and analysis plan THIS NEWSPAPER'S OWN STUDY	They Buried, with a commissioned statistician	March–May 2026	902	5
PX-1974	Replication of a Puma Punku H-block — 411 logged hours, footage, scans and calibration THIS NEWSPAPER'S OWN EXPERIMENT	Commissioned by They Buried	March–May 2026	—	4
PX-1980	Standard deposit agreement, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, with counsel's line-by-line note PUBLIC DOCUMENT	The vault operator; publicly available	Current version, read May 2026	6	4
PX-1986	Effect sizes and confidence intervals from 31 randomised cloud-seeding trials, 1961–2024 COMPILED FROM PUBLISHED LITERATURE	They Buried science desk	Compiled 2026	41	8
PX-1992	Attempted reproduction of 90 seconds of lunar surface footage — working file and two costings THIS NEWSPAPER'S OWN COMMISSION	Commissioned by They Buried	April–June 2026	28	4
PX-1998	Phoebus cartel — 1924 agreement, 1925 testing standard and the fine schedules ARCHIVE COPIES OF A PUBLIC HISTORY	A Geneva archive	1924–1939	96	1
PX-2004	Impedance calculation for ground-conduction power transmission, worked for this newspaper COMMISSIONED CALCULATION	Prof. H. Osei-Baumann, at our request	May 2026	11	3
PX-2011	Chain of printed sources for the Lovelock 'giants', 1911–2024 COMPILED FROM PUBLIC SOURCES	They Buried	Compiled 2026	31	4
PX-2017	Elberton Granite Finishing Company job file, 1979–80 COMMERCIAL RECORD, SHOWN TO US	The fabricator	1979–1980	44	1
PX-2023	Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, 13 March 1962, with annex DECLASSIFIED 1997 — PUBLIC RECORD	Joint Chiefs of Staff	13 March 1962	15	1
PX-2029	eDNA survey, eleven sites, one Washington watershed — protocol, species list and raw sequence THIS NEWSPAPER'S OWN STUDY	Commissioned by They Buried	April–July 2026	63	5
PX-2035	1,428 depicted catastrophes coded from 240 titles, 1990–1999 THIS NEWSPAPER'S OWN STUDY	Commissioned by They Buried	February–June 2026	204	1
PX-2041	214 reader sighting reports plotted against published low-level route charts READER REPORTS + COMMERCIAL CHARTS	They Buried Sky Desk	September 2025 – July 2026	58	4
PX-2047	Task Force 68 after-action reporting, Operation Highjump, 1946–47 PUBLIC RECORD	US Navy	1947	300	8
PX-2053	Scaling arithmetic: from one sodium guide star to a sky image COMMISSIONED CALCULATION	Dr. C. Ferreira-Amankwah, at our request	July 2026	9	1
PX-2059	Channel-one dictabelt, Dallas Police Department, 22 November 1963 — first-generation transfer and transfer notes MUNICIPAL RECORD — COPY	Dallas municipal records, via a transfer house retained by this newspaper	transfer made 11 February 2026; original medium dated 22 November 1963	9	2
PX-2065	Reply to this newspaper's funding enquiry, from a pharmaceutical sponsor, declining to fund a phase III CORRESPONDENCE — SENT ON THE RECORD	A pharmaceutical company; the writer asked that the company be named and that he not be	3 March 2026	1	3
PX-2071	Private letter, 7 June 1918, one member of a Yale senior society to another OPEN COLLECTION — NO RESTRICTION	A university library manuscript collection, New Haven	7 June 1918	1	1
PX-2077	Public comment file and response record for a federal structural investigation, August–November 2008 PUBLIC RECORD	A federal science agency	comments August 2008; responses published November 2008	comment file 214; response record 61	2
PX-2083	Association registration file, sub-prefecture, 7 May 1956, with the corresponding entry in the government gazette of 20 July 1956 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD	A French sub-prefecture, Haute-Savoie	7 May 1956; gazette entry 20 July 1956	4	7
PX-2089	Letter from a small-press publisher to a young collaborator, on the reception of a hoax the two of them had placed in print OPEN COLLECTION — NO RESTRICTION	A named personal papers collection, county public library, West Virginia	late 1960s; the collection's finding aid gives the folder and range	1	2
PX-2095	Subcommittee hearing transcript, 19 September 1972, and the 1973 audit of the department's handling of the export sales PUBLIC RECORD	Congressional record; federal audit office	hearing 19 September 1972; audit 1973	transcript 118; audit 44	3
PX-2101	Certificate of live birth, Mississippi, 8 January 1935 — certified copy STATE VITAL RECORD	Mississippi State Department of Health	1935; copy certified 2026	1	1
PX-2107	The Tombstone Epitaph, 26 April 1890, page 4 — 'A Strange Winged Monster Discovered and Killed on the Huachuca Desert' NEWSPAPER OF RECORD — PUBLIC MICROFILM	County library microfilm collection, Arizona	26 April 1890	1	2
PX-2113	Published spectrum and high-speed frames of a ball-lightning event, plateau observation, July 2012 PUBLISHED — PEER-REVIEWED	A physics journal and its supplementary material	observed July 2012; published January 2014	paper 5; supplementary 14	2
PX-2119	Monthly mortality returns, two obstetric clinics of a Vienna hospital, 1841–1849 INSTITUTIONAL RECORD — PUBLISHED IN FACSIMILE	Hospital returns, reproduced in the scholarly literature	1841–1849	22	1
PX-2125	X-radiographs of seventeen oriented cores taken from a submerged carbonate formation, Bahamas, 1977, with the 1979 radiocarbon report PUBLISHED — PEER-REVIEWED	A geological survey; a university radiocarbon laboratory	cores 1977; radiographs published subsequently; radiocarbon report 1979	radiographs 17 plates; report 9	3
PX-2131	Six subject-access responses covering one week of one reporter's card payments, with the published offline-functionality annex read alongside them PERSONAL DATA — PUBLISHED BY THE SUBJECT	Five payment organisations and one wallet provider; and a public scheme document	payments May 2026; responses May–June 2026; annex as published	responses 31; annex 12	3
PX-2137	Collection records for two archival specimens, Léopoldville 1959 and 1960, filed with the declassified operational record of a 1983 disinformation campaign PUBLIC — TWO SEPARATE PROVENANCES	Institutional specimen collections; and post-1990 releases of Soviet-bloc intelligence material	specimens 1959 and 1960; campaign material 1983–1992	collection records 8; campaign material 26	2
PX-2143	Front matter of the published editions giving the years of composition, filed with the 1974 engineering analysis and its drawings PUBLISHED — BOTH ITEMS	The text's own editions; a department of aeronautical and mechanical engineering	dictation 1918–1923; announced 1952; editions 1959 and 1973; analysis 1974	front matter 6; analysis 22 with drawings	1
PX-2149	The 2010 complaint and consent, read against the deal's own offering material PUBLIC RECORD, WITH ONE OBTAINED DOCUMENT	A federal securities regulator; and the deal's marketing pack	deal 2007; complaint and settlement 2010	complaint 22; consent 9; offering material, relevant pages 14	1
PX-2155	Internal projection graphs, 1977–2003, filed with the 2023 scoring assessment and its public data and code repository ARCHIVAL, PUBLISHED, AND OPEN	Company memoranda; a peer-reviewed assessment; an open data repository	projections 1977–2003; assessment 2023	graphs reproduced, 24; assessment 8 with supplementary; repository, code and data	1
PX-2161	Cumulative radiofrequency exposure study — signed protocol, published before recruitment THIS NEWSPAPER'S OWN DOCUMENT	They Buried and Parents Against Masts (Tompkins County), co-drafted	signed 4 August 2026; published 10 August 2026	11	9
PX-2167	Divorce filing, Schedule B (division of chattels), August 1974 — item 41 COUNTY COURT RECORD — PUBLIC	Clerk of court, New Jersey	August 1974	3	3
PX-2173	The 2021 slab-avalanche paper, filed with the 1959 autopsy findings it is calibrated against and the post-publication expedition reports PUBLISHED — OPEN ACCESS	A peer-reviewed earth-sciences journal; a Soviet prosecutorial file released in stages since 1990; three expedition reports	paper 28 January 2021; autopsies 1959; expeditions 2021–2022	paper 11 with supplementary; autopsy extracts 14; expedition reports 38	2
PX-2179	Thirty years of one police force's wildlife-report log, 1996–2026, with the 1980 capture file RELEASED UNDER FREEDOM OF INFORMATION	A British police force; a Highland council and wildlife park record series	log 1996–2026; capture file 1980–1986	log 604; capture file 22	4
PX-2185	Two papers in the same statistics journal, five years apart: the 1994 claim and the 1999 rerun PUBLISHED — PEER-REVIEWED, BOTH FREE TO READ	A statistics journal	August 1994; May 1999	1994 paper 14 with appendix; 1999 paper 24 with supplementary experiments	2
PX-2191	Twenty-six hours of published record, 9–10 December 2009, with two amateur trackers' working PUBLIC RECORD, PLUS TWO PRIVATE WORKINGS SUPPLIED	Contemporaneous news reports and a defence ministry statement; two private notebooks	9–10 December 2009; workings supplied 2026	reports and statement 19; workings 12	4
PX-2200	Final pension separation statement of a shaft engineer, Rio Arriba County PRIVATE PAPERS — FAMILY CONSENT ON FILE	Contributory scheme administrator, name withheld at the family's request	30 August 1979	1	1
PX-2201	Game register of a Georgia hunting club, season of 1910, sheet for 10–21 November CLUB RECORD	Jekyll Island Club, Glynn County, Georgia	November 1910	1	1
PX-2202	Payment voucher from the surviving MK-Ultra finance series DECLASSIFIED — FINANCE SERIES	Central Intelligence Agency, finance records	1961	2	1
PX-2203	Refusal of a request for the original burst-frequency records CORRESPONDENCE	Satellite operator, media office	September 2026	1	2

Contested — cited with a caveat

These documents are disputed by at least one party with standing. We cite them and we say so, every time.

Code	Document	Origin	Dated	Pages	Cited in
PX-1207	Second Dynasty extraction schedule, tablet fragment (obverse and reverse) MUSEUM DEACCESSION LOT 44-C	Private collection, Basel	c. 2340 BCE (composition); 1908 (excavation)	1	11
PX-1508	Steering committee agenda and attendance sheet, 71st conference CHATHAM HOUSE	Left in a hotel business centre, Turnberry	May 2024	3	3
PX-1930	The Bennewitz material — 340 pages given to a private citizen by persons unknown, 1979–82 ADMITTED FORGERY (IN PART)	Estate of Paul Bennewitz, via a family member	1979–1982	340	5

Received and rejected

Offered to us and declined. Listed here so that the record of what we refused is as public as the record of what we ran.

Code	Document	Origin	Dated	Pages	Cited in
PX-1745	Calendrical audit of dendrochronological sequences, 600–950 CE PREPRINT, WITHDRAWN BY AUTHORS	Two university dendrochronology laboratories	2023	44	2
PX-1802	Offered: 'internal memorandum' on municipal water fluoridation OFFERED AND DECLINED	An intermediary who would not name the holder	Offered March 2026	4	0
PX-1963	Twelve tests applied to the Majestic 12 papers — working, overlays and instructions THIS NEWSPAPER'S OWN EXAMINATION	They Buried data desk	April–July 2026	54	2

Sending us a document

We accept documents by post — The Buried Trust, PO Box 1947, Ithaca, New York 14851 — and in person by appointment. We do not accept documents from an intermediary who will not name the original holder. Every document is photographed on arrival, catalogued the same day, and given a code beginning PX-. If we cannot describe how it reached us in one sentence, we do not print it.