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The Private Archive Problem

Five takes on a record that outlives offices: Brown asking us to look beyond one lifetime, Elizondo and Pasulka on who is getting us ready, the promised big thing, why this administration, and the drones we stopped talking about.

AARO moving to buy access to a private pre-1990 archive is a reminder that a lot of this file never lived in an office the public can FOIA. Brown already asked us to look beyond one lifetime. This trail takes that take across to the Elizondo/Pasulka conversation about preparation, the withheld 'big thing,' why this administration, and the drones that dropped out of the discussion. I am not saying Marler's boxes contain those answers. I am saying the private-archive move is why this particular set of takes is the one I want on one map this month.

The labels do one job: they tell you whether a connection is in the source record, is the same account turning up twice, is my grouping, or is my guess. None of them turns two takes into proof of each other.

The trail at a glance

Thematic, stop 1 to stop 2: Opposite sources. Both takes treat the interesting unit of time as longer than a press cycle. That is the only reason they sit together.Documented, stop 2 to stop 3: Same conversation: once someone is being prepared, the next passage is the promised revelation that did not arrive.Documented, stop 3 to stop 4: Same conversation, the timing question: if a big thing was supposed to land, why this administration, why now.Documented, stop 4 to stop 5: Adjacent problem in the same talk: the current sky story that dropped out once the conversation moved back to UFOs.Hypothesis, stop 1 to stop 4: My join. Looking beyond one lifetime and asking why this administration are two clocks on the same event. Neither speaker sets them against each other.1LifetimeMatthew Brown2ReadyLue Elizondo &Diana Pasulka3Big thingLue Elizondo &Diana Pasulka4Why nowLue Elizondo &Diana Pasulka5DronesLue Elizondo &Diana PasulkaThematic, stop 1 to stop 2: Opposite sources. Both takes treat the interesting unit of time as longer than a press cycle. That is the only reason they sit together.Documented, stop 2 to stop 3: Same conversation: once someone is being prepared, the next passage is the promised revelation that did not arrive.Documented, stop 3 to stop 4: Same conversation, the timing question: if a big thing was supposed to land, why this administration, why now.Documented, stop 4 to stop 5: Adjacent problem in the same talk: the current sky story that dropped out once the conversation moved back to UFOs.Hypothesis, stop 1 to stop 4: My join. Looking beyond one lifetime and asking why this administration are two clocks on the same event. Neither speaker sets them against each other.1LifetimeMatthew Brown2ReadyLue Elizondo & Diana Pasulka3Big thingLue Elizondo & Diana Pasulka4Why nowLue Elizondo & Diana Pasulka5DronesLue Elizondo & Diana Pasulka
Documented
The connection is in the source itself: the same passage, the speaker carrying one idea into the next stretch of the conversation, or the speaker making the link himself elsewhere in the same conversation. The record supports the link; it doesn't prove the claim.
The same figure, account or claim turns up in more than one source. That's the story travelling, not two independent witnesses.
Thematic
My grouping. Different sources asking a similar question, placed side by side because thinking about them together is useful.
Hypothesis
My proposal. A join that neither source makes; I'm making it, and I say so where it happens.

Open the depth viewThe same trail map with a third axis. Nothing here changes the trail.

The stops

  1. Stop 1 of 5Lifetime

    Matthew BrownNew Atlantis

    Brown is asking us to look beyond one lifetime

    Brown's New Atlantis discussion begins with a clue about how far back he thinks the story goes.

    Read the takeHear it 2:01:30–2:05:07

    Opens YouTube in a new tab at the start of the range.

  2. Stop 2 of 5Ready

    ThematicWhy this comes next

    Opposite sources. Both takes treat the interesting unit of time as longer than a press cycle. That is the only reason they sit together.

    Lue Elizondo & Diana PasulkaWhy her, and what are we being prepared for?

    Who is getting us ready for this?

    Elizondo says he is bringing religious leaders from different traditions into these conversations.

    Read the takeHear it 24:38–28:36 Hear it 1:15:30–1:18:55

    Opens YouTube in a new tab at the start of the range.

  3. Stop 3 of 5Big thing

    DocumentedWhy this comes next

    Same conversation: once someone is being prepared, the next passage is the promised revelation that did not arrive.

    Lue Elizondo & Diana PasulkaThe announcement, and the timing

    Okay, but what was the big thing?

    I initially got excited when Elizondo started talking about a major development coming in a week or two..

    Read the takeHear it 16:39–19:26 Hear it 1:12:42–1:13:48

    Opens YouTube in a new tab at the start of the range.

  4. Stop 4 of 5Why now

    DocumentedWhy this comes next

    Same conversation, the timing question: if a big thing was supposed to land, why this administration, why now.

    Lue Elizondo & Diana PasulkaThe announcement, and the timing

    Why this administration? Why now?

    Politics aside for a second—whether you like Trump or not—why is this subject useful to this administration?.

    Read the takeHear it 16:39–17:43

    Opens YouTube in a new tab at the start of the range.

  5. Stop 5 of 5Drones

    DocumentedWhy this comes next

    Adjacent problem in the same talk: the current sky story that dropped out once the conversation moved back to UFOs.

    Lue Elizondo & Diana PasulkaThe lights overhead

    So we’re curious about UFOs, but done talking about the drones?

    That’s the disconnect I feel here.

    Read the takeHear it 28:52–38:46

    Opens YouTube in a new tab at the start of the range.

Every connection on this trail

  1. ThematicStop 1to Stop 2

    Opposite sources. Both takes treat the interesting unit of time as longer than a press cycle. That is the only reason they sit together.

  2. DocumentedStop 2to Stop 3

    Same conversation: once someone is being prepared, the next passage is the promised revelation that did not arrive.

  3. DocumentedStop 3to Stop 4

    Same conversation, the timing question: if a big thing was supposed to land, why this administration, why now.

  4. DocumentedStop 4to Stop 5

    Adjacent problem in the same talk: the current sky story that dropped out once the conversation moved back to UFOs.

  5. HypothesisStop 1to Stop 4

    My join. Looking beyond one lifetime and asking why this administration are two clocks on the same event. Neither speaker sets them against each other.

The labels do one job: they tell you whether a connection is in the source record, is the same account turning up twice, is my grouping, or is my guess. None of them turns two takes into proof of each other.