PX-1701
REPORTER'S NOTES
INVENTED FOR A FICTIONAL NEWSPAPER
Point Pleasant field notebook, S. Brindisi, vols. 3–4
- Origin
- This newspaper
- Dated
- September 2025 – July 2026
- Extent
- 188 pages
- Status
- accepted
- Redactions
- Two witnesses' telephone numbers obscured at their request.
Chain of custody
Our own correspondent's field notebooks, published in facsimile because he offered them and the standards editor could see no reason to refuse. Every sighting logged is timed, placed by grid reference, and marked with what the light was doing.
Held by: They Buried, document room
Excerpt
14 JUN · 21:40 · grid 38.8447 N 82.1371 W · overcast, no moon large bird, wingspan est. 2.4–3.1 m, no call, no wingbeat audible. glided 40 s. did not flap. I did not see eyes. I want to be clear that I did not see eyes. two witnesses present, both named p.161. 15 JUN · 21:40 · same grid · clear nothing. waited four hours. 16 JUN · 21:40 · same grid · light rain nothing. waited four hours.
Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.
Editor's note
Published in full, including the eleven consecutive nights on which nothing happened, because a field notebook that only records the good nights is not a field notebook.
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