Part of what it adds up to · step 5 of 7, “It isn’t just hardware”
The price of contact
What contact costs people: burns, illness, disappearances and threats, from records to anonymous claims.
Our reading across the sources1953 to now2 min read
In 60 seconds
No narrator adds up what contact costs people, but our records do. Some are burns and injuries followed by doctors; some are disappearances; some are threats and deaths claimed by anonymous sources. The page keeps them apart by grade.
29 events: 2 on the record18 named witness9 unnamed insider0 UAP Trail’s reasoning
The claim, in our words · Our reading across 15 records
“Across sixty years the records show a steady cost to people, and the strongest of it is medical, not anecdotal.”
How it branched
Each line is a branch, named at its end. Dots are the key moments below.
1967Falcon Lake: burned by a craftBStefan Michalak's chest burns are documented by physicians; their cause rests on his account. Disputed.On the record
1978Valentich vanishesAA pilot reports something "hovering" over him, then his Cessna disappears over Bass Strait. The radio log is on record.On the record
2012The medical filesCGarry Nolan is brought data on personnel hurt after encounters: burns, autoimmune problems, brain scarring.Named witness
Chapter 3 · 2020 to now
The whistleblower years
Deaths, disappearances and threats around the people who talk.
“Mark McCandlish was a stupid dramatic selfish fool who died because he could not keep his mouth shut, learn from this.”
Brad Sorensen, Norton 1988 witness · to UAP Gerb, 2024
Key moments
2021Mark McCandlish diesA gunshot ruled self-inflicted, 13 Apr 2021. That day he told Rick Price he would call later and his girlfriend he would see her at work; per Robert D. Morningstar he was due to brief Senate staff in June 2021 and had…Named witness
2024Sorensen to Gerb: 'learn from this'Brad Sorensen told Gerb McCandlish 'died because he could not keep his mouth shut' and that Gerb would 'say goodbye to everybody' he loves if he went on. Gerb reads it as warning amateurs off, not as proof of a crime…Named witness
2024Witnesses intimidated before the hearingCRep. Burlison and an intelligence-connected attendee told Gerb that witnesses were intimidated 'up to the time they were supposed to testify' for the November 2024 hearing.Named witness
2026The missing scientistsMcCasland, Garcia and Casias in Albuquerque; Eskridge and LeBlanc in Huntsville. No official body links them. Gerb's sources (2026): McCasland worked Air Force legacy test and evaluation and was due to resign from…Named witness
The squeezeshares 7 records: The 2004 'blue on blue', 'Exposing the Truth' hearing, The Hellfire video hearing, David Grusch and more
The legacy programshares 6 records: Matthew James Sullivan, Michael Herrera, Mark McCandlish, New UFO Witnesses Break Silence to Investigator - UAP Gerb - DEBRIEFED ep. 49 and more
Split by serviceshares 2 records: New UFO Witnesses Break Silence to Investigator - UAP Gerb - DEBRIEFED ep. 49, Matthew James Sullivan
The undersea programshares 2 records: Air Force Hidden Wing, Admin & the UFO Files, "It's Probably Nothing" tour, & QnA - UAP Gerb Live, Grusch on Rogan
