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How the archive reviews UFO video claims

Video is useful evidence only when timing, location, camera behavior, witness context, and alternative explanations are reviewed together.

The archive separates what is visible in a clip from what is claimed around it. A light moving across a frame is not the same thing as a craft, a drone, a satellite, a reflection, or a sensor anomaly until the surrounding evidence is checked.

A useful review preserves original files when possible, checks metadata, compares known aircraft and satellite paths, and asks whether camera motion can explain the apparent object motion.