Alleged thermal / wide-area video is authentic collection
Hypothesis to test — provenance not established
Circulating clips are treated as alleged. If genuine, at least one collector must satisfy geometry, band, FOV, altitude and comms. Platform IDs attached to social posts are not accepted as authority. A ~6 fps ‘Gorgon Stare Increment 2 match’ is contradicted by the 2013 OSD 2 fps figure.
If the clips are genuine, platform class has to be derived from field of view, range, altitude, speed and palette, plus metadata and a provenance chronology — not from researcher labels. Until provenance is established, the clips are not evidence of a sensor on Orion or anything else. RegicideAnon’s public-upload date is 19 May 2014; the description’s claimed ‘received 12 March 2014’ is a separate unverified field. Sensor-native capture, encoded/display rate and screen-recording cadence must be separated before any numerical frame-rate match is used as authentication. A third-party extract of 824 Forbes videos is a claim list, not a proof archive.
Sources
- Working report §11–12; investigation plan Phase 4
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