Narrative
The price of contact
Narrative
The price of contact
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.
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The voices it opens with
Before UAP Trail says a word, the video lets others speak. Each clip is linked at its second in the video.
Pilot, Bass Strait, 1978 (radio log)
It is hovering and it's not an aircraft.
On the record
BAASS
BAASS physicians judged the injury a high-probability result of the encounter.
Named witness
Norton 1988 witness · to UAP Gerb, 2024
Mark McCandlish was a stupid dramatic selfish fool who died because he could not keep his mouth shut, learn from this.
Named witness
Reality Check Q&A, Oct 2026
The only explanation that I can think of as to why we're not being told about this is that it's part of the agreements with these beings.
Named witness
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The claim, in UAP Trail’s words
“Across sixty years the records show a steady cost to people, and the strongest of it is medical, not anecdotal.”
Our reading across 15 records
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How it split
The central claim drawn as a tree. Each branch is a part of the story that went its own way, splitting at UAP Trail’s turning points. Line weight is UAP Trail’s sense of how much each branch holds. Click a branch, a fork or a dot.
On the recordNamed witnessUnnamed insidersUAP Trail’s reasoningLoosely accountableFork: what split it
1967–now
Bodies hurt
This branch rests on: named witness
Physical harm after close encounters.
What it held. Burns, radiation-like illness, injuries followed by physicians.
Where it is now. The medical files
Events on this branch
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How it unfolds: three eras
1967–1989
Single cases
Falcon Lake, Valentich and Cash-Landrum.
1990–2019
The files
BAASS and the medical data on hurt personnel.
2020–now
The whistleblower years
Deaths, disappearances and threats around the people who talk.
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What carries it
Every event in the narrative, sorted by what it rests on. The on-record events are the skeleton; the rest is what UAP Trail hangs on it.
2On the recordLaws, orders, founding dates, released files
18Named witnessesPeople on record, firsthand or secondhand
9Unnamed insidersUAP Trail’s own sources, anonymous to the public
0UAP Trail’s reasoningThe links and readings UAP Trail adds