Audit The Unknown Web Edition JSON

Machine-readable state for the public web edition. This artifact supports reproducibility and navigation only; it does not validate event truth, native media, object identity, origin, performance, suppression, completeness, or agency approval.

Filename: uap-book-web-edition.json
Schema: vrai.uap.book_web_edition.v1
SHA-256: ff6c1a87dee442eb900bce13e4381d7399029be6ec908ed24462918fcca93500
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{
  "schema": "vrai.uap.book_web_edition.v1",
  "generated_at": "2026-05-26T04:35:06+00:00",
  "url": "https://virtualrealityaistudio.com/uap/book/",
  "machine_state_url": "https://virtualrealityaistudio.com/uap/book/web-edition-json/",
  "title": "Audit The Unknown",
  "subtitle": "How To Read A Public UAP Evidence Release Without Losing The Evidence Boundary",
  "approval_date": "2026-05-17",
  "cover_url": "https://virtualrealityaistudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/audit-the-unknown-cover.png",
  "cover_media_id": "3263",
  "release02_update_note": {
    "date": "May 24, 2026",
    "activity_url": "https://virtualrealityaistudio.com/uap/activity/",
    "summary": "This web book remains the May 17 Release 01 evidence-literacy edition. The newer Release 02 work is tracked as a separate live source-control thread, not as a rewrite of the Aegean/FBI teaching chapters.",
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Current Release 02 shape",
        "body": "The active War.gov/PURSUE spreadsheet is cumulative at 222 rows. The May 22 Release 02 subset is 64 rows: 51 videos, 7 audio files, and 6 PDFs."
      },
      {
        "title": "Cleared public finding",
        "body": "All 51 Release 02 video rows carry chain-of-custody or informational-use caveats, so public video review should treat them as public release renditions rather than native source-device files."
      },
      {
        "title": "Open records questions",
        "body": "DOE-UAP-D001/Pantex appears publicly as pages 5-6 of a six-page sequence; pages 1-4 have not been recovered in the public/local route pass. PR057a/PR057b are two release rows that share DVIDS ID 1007720 under a public AARO/DVIDS duplicate-title explanation."
      },
      {
        "title": "Archive/version note",
        "body": "Wayback captures preserve a 158-row May 20 feed and 222-row May 22/May 23 feeds, plus a PR062 wording change. These are citation/versioning facts, not claims about event truth, suppression, origin, or authenticity."
      }
    ],
    "claim_boundary": "Source-control and public-record status only; no event-truth, object-origin, authenticity, suppression, or native-media claim."
  },
  "chapters": [
    {
      "title": "Note To The Reader: This Is Not A Proof Book",
      "anchor": "note-to-the-reader-this-is-not-a-proof-book"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 1 - The First Mistake: Treating Release As Validation",
      "anchor": "chapter-1-the-first-mistake-treating-release-as-validation"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 2 - The Ledger Mindset",
      "anchor": "chapter-2-the-ledger-mindset"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 3 - Public Renditions Are Not Native Sensors",
      "anchor": "chapter-3-public-renditions-are-not-native-sensors"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 4 - The Aegean Test Case: Reports, Videos, And Pairing Discipline",
      "anchor": "chapter-4-the-aegean-test-case-reports-videos-and-pairing-discipline"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 5 - Watching Without Overclaiming",
      "anchor": "chapter-5-watching-without-overclaiming"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 6 - The FBI Crosswalk Problem",
      "anchor": "chapter-6-the-fbi-crosswalk-problem"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 7 - Candidate Matches Are Not Equivalence",
      "anchor": "chapter-7-candidate-matches-are-not-equivalence"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 8 - What We Cut",
      "anchor": "chapter-8-what-we-cut"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 9 - Asking Better Questions",
      "anchor": "chapter-9-asking-better-questions"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chapter 10 - Publishing Without Smuggling Certainty",
      "anchor": "chapter-10-publishing-without-smuggling-certainty"
    },
    {
      "title": "Conclusion - A Better Kind Of Curiosity",
      "anchor": "conclusion-a-better-kind-of-curiosity"
    }
  ],
  "claim_boundary": "Public-source evidence-literacy book only; no object-origin, identity, performance, native-sensor, agency-validation, figure/caption, or visual-evidence claim.",
  "control_artifacts": {
    "reader_value_matrix": "book_reader_value_matrix_2026-05-17.md",
    "review_approval": "book_expanded_web_publication_approval_2026-05-17.md",
    "claims_ledger": "book_final_included_claims_ledger_2026-05-17.csv"
  },
  "approval_checks": [
    {
      "name": "Reader-value matrix",
      "status": "approved",
      "note": "Each chapter has a reader question, concrete source object, worked example, reader skill, unknowns, and a stated reason to belong."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chapter depth and readability",
      "status": "approved",
      "note": "Expanded to a substantial public web-book edition; all numbered chapters exceed 1,000 words and carry reader-facing method work."
    },
    {
      "name": "Citation and source apparatus",
      "status": "approved",
      "note": "Public source links, claim classes, do-not-say boundaries, Note E exclusion, and DVIDS 1006111 caveat remain visible and bounded."
    },
    {
      "name": "Skeptical claim boundary",
      "status": "approved",
      "note": "Aegean and FBI material remain below the final ledger ceilings; no visual, figure, caption, native-sensor, agency-validation, or event-truth clearance is implied."
    }
  ],
  "editorial_verdicts": [
    {
      "name": "Noa Hart",
      "lane": "Book architecture",
      "verdict": "PASS",
      "note": "Approved as a substantial public web-book architecture with a clear reader contract and inspectable source apparatus."
    },
    {
      "name": "Theo Mercer",
      "lane": "Narrative/readability",
      "verdict": "PASS",
      "note": "Approved after public-flow fixes and prose cleanup; metadata and gate language stay outside the reading body."
    },
    {
      "name": "Imani Cross",
      "lane": "Citation/source apparatus",
      "verdict": "PASS",
      "note": "Approved after restricted-lane removal, Note E tightening, and Chapter 10 source-safety cleanup."
    },
    {
      "name": "June Calder",
      "lane": "Skeptical claim ceiling",
      "verdict": "PASS",
      "note": "Approved after PR34/PR35 separation, D35/PR35 claim restoration, and private-lane leakage removal."
    }
  ]
}