Earliest located means the earliest source UAPverse has found and can point to at an exact place. It is not proof of where the claim began.
A relationship we cannot evidence is marked unknown. Unknown is not independent confirmation, and it is not derivation either.
Confidence here is confidence in the evidence for a relationship between two statements. It says nothing about whether the claim is true or whom to believe.
The claim, as made
Stated neutrally, in the terms the speaker used. Not evaluated for truth.
The September 14, 2026 announcement describes an authorized route for covered personnel to disclose protected UAP information to PURSUE representatives, not a general permission to tell the public. Recorded from located public wording; the official war.gov page was not re-fetched in this environment.
Lineage2
Ordered by source date. Each statement shows who said it, where, the exact place in the source, the recorded wording, and how it relates to earlier statements. Corrections, clarifications, disputes and withdrawals sit under the statement they act on.
CBS News report on the sixth UAP file release, September 18, 2026
Source published
Added to UAPverse
On Monday, the Pentagon announced the creation of a legal waiver that would allow current and former employees previously bound by nondisclosure agreements to share UAP-related information with the government.
UAPverse Current Signal, topic “Who receives the story?”
Source published
Added to UAPverse
The September 14 announcement gives covered current and former personnel an authorized route to disclose protected UAP information to PURSUE, the government's UAP disclosure effort. The Department of War describes relief from civil and administrative enforcement of their secrecy agreements, specifically for those communications. Then comes review, security evaluation, and possible declassification. The invitation is to tell the designated team.
Recorded by default: no relationship was authored, so it is unknown.
Relationship view
The same statements and relationships as the lineage, drawn as a graph: time runs down the page, every statement is drawn the same size, and each line is labelled with its relationship type. Nothing about position, size or colour ranks a statement or a speaker.
Legend
names as the origin
The later source itself says the earlier statement is where the claim began. Recorded as that source's attribution, never as a finding.
repeated
Says it again in the same or nearly the same words.
quoted
Uses the earlier words in quotation marks.
cited
Points to the earlier statement as its source.
paraphrased
Restates it in different words.
summarized
Shortens it.
amplified
Carries it further or adds emphasis.
asserted independently of
Makes the same claim, with stated evidence that it did not come from the earlier statement. Never assumed.
clarified
Narrows or explains the earlier statement without taking it back.
corrected
Changes a stated fact in the earlier statement.
disputed
Contradicts the earlier statement.
withdrew
Takes the earlier statement back.
relationship unknown to
No evidence either way. Not independent, not derived: unknown. This is the default when nothing is recorded.
A relationship we cannot evidence is marked unknown. Unknown is not independent confirmation, and it is not derivation either.
Sources2
Every statement cites exactly one of these at an exact place in the source.
Topic “Who receives the story?”, paragraph that begins “The September 14 announcement”
Source published public signal catalog; paragraph text resolved at compile time
Provenance notes2
What was and was not located. Read these before treating the earliest located source as anything more than that.
Official announcement URL is retained. The official war.gov body was not re-fetched here. CBS (2026-09-18) is the earliest located public wording in this record; that is not origin. The announcement date is 2026-09-14.
UAPverse's Current Signal paragraph (published 2026-09-20) is the later located wording. It was written from the announcement and SOURCE_CHECK, not from CBS. No derivation between CBS and UAPverse is recorded.