Working model · Packet A

The record,
still reversible.

The contested Trinity narrative is a stress test, not a subject. The Engine does not decide what happened. It exposes what every sentence rests on—and where the record stops.

114 nodes40 claim-family0 truth scores
Lens
interpretedForensic source-criticism lens v1.0 (rules: weigh contemporaneity, custody, internal consistency, independence of roots; Johnson 2023-2025 exemplar)

Under this lens the packet reads as a documented fabrication pattern: divergent 2002 draft, hijacked real personas, fabricated biographies, terrestrial metal.

A lens may add context. It cannot write back to the Record Plane.
observed Registered by a witness or instrument with declared channel and conditions.reported Known through an attributed account after the fact.inferred Concluded from evidence by stated reasoning.interpreted A lens-based reading; not perception.disputed Under active, documented challenge.repeated Dependent repetition of another source—an echo.unknown Not resolved; retained with attempts and constraints.lost Known or expected to have existed and now unavailable.
S01

In 2003, two men in their sixties publicly said that as children in August 1945 they had seen something crash near the Trinity atomic test site—the first located public telling, roughly 58 years after the alleged event.

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01Atomic claims

3 mapped records

02Evidence + artifacts

Ben Moffett, 'New Mexico UFO Crash Encounter In 1945', The Mountain Mail (Socorro NM), 2003-11-02

03Independent roots

1 dependency cluster

04Retained loss

Raw 2003 Moffett interview recordings/notes not public

S02

Their account described an avocado-shaped object, small moving figures, a long gouge in the earth, and a military recovery; one said he pried a metal piece from the wreckage.

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01Atomic claims

5 mapped records

02Evidence + artifacts

Ben Moffett, 'New Mexico UFO Crash Encounter In 1945', The Mountain Mail (Socorro NM), 2003-11-02 · Reme Baca & Jose Padilla, 'Born on the Edge of Ground Zero' (self-published, 2011)

03Independent roots

1 dependency cluster

04Retained loss

Artifact chain-of-custody gap, 1945 to 2000s · Raw 2003 Moffett interview recordings/notes not public

S03

One year before going public, one witness had told a different version on tape—1946 not 1945, a disk not an avocado, a pickup truck not horses, the fragment taken from a trailer rather than the site.

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01Atomic claims

2 mapped records

02Evidence + artifacts

Douglas Dean Johnson, 'Crash Story File: The Reme Baca Smoking-Gun Interview', 2023-05-20 (upd. 2025) · Audio recording of Reme Baca's 2002 account to Thomas J. Carey

03Independent roots

No cluster recorded

04Retained loss

No linked loss event

S04

The two witnesses are not independent sources: they re-established contact in 2001–2002 and the account was co-developed before its public debut.

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01Atomic claims

2 mapped records

02Evidence + artifacts

Douglas Dean Johnson, 'Crash Story: The Trinity UFO Crash Hoax' (hub), 2023-05-01 · Douglas Dean Johnson, 'Crash Story File: The Shifting Narratives of the Trinity UFO Crash and Recovery', 2023-05-01

03Independent roots

1 dependency cluster

04Retained loss

No linked loss event

S05

The crash claim is formally disputed: documented critiques identify fabricated biography elements, hijacked real personas, and details that appear in the record only after 2003.

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01Atomic claims

4 mapped records

02Evidence + artifacts

Padilla's 2003 account of seeing a crashed object and small moving figures in Aug 1945 · Baca's 2003 account of the same alleged event · Audio recording of Reme Baca's 2002 account to Thomas J. Carey · Douglas Dean Johnson, 'Crash Story File: The Shifting Narratives of the Trinity UFO Crash and Recovery', 2023-05-01 · Douglas Dean Johnson, 'Witness credibility implodes for Vallee's Trinity UFO crash tale', 2025-03-13 · Douglas Dean Johnson, 'Crash Story: The Trinity UFO Crash Hoax' (hub), 2023-05-01

03Independent roots

2 dependency clusters

04Retained loss

No contemporaneous 1945 documentation located · 58-year event-to-account latency (memory degradation) · Reme Baca died 2013-06-12; further testimony inaccessible

S06

A metal fragment attributed to the site was analyzed in 2017 and found to be a terrestrial alloy; where it was between 1945 and the 2000s is undocumented.

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01Atomic claims

3 mapped records

02Evidence + artifacts

John Greenewald, 'Analysis of Two Metallic Parts Purportedly from a Crashed Unidentified Aerial Object', The Black Vault, 2017-02-01 · Vallée & Harris, 'Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret', 1st edition, June 2021 · James Price, crash-site distance analysis, 2024-02-26

03Independent roots

1 dependency cluster

04Retained loss

No linked loss event

S07

Since 2021 the story has been amplified by a bestselling book and mainstream media, but those retellings share a root—hundreds of echoes count as one source, not corroboration.

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01Atomic claims

4 mapped records

02Evidence + artifacts

Vallée & Harris, 'Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret', 1st edition, June 2021 · Remy Tumin, New York Times feature on the Trinity crash story, Jan 2023 · Douglas Dean Johnson, 'Crash Story: The Trinity UFO Crash Hoax' (hub), 2023-05-01 · James Price, crash-site distance analysis, 2024-02-26

03Independent roots

3 dependency clusters

04Retained loss

No linked loss event