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Issue 007 · 24 September 2026 · Global special

Can you prove a picture is real?

One investigation and an eight-minute, two-host video. Follow an image back to its source, see where a caption can outrun the evidence, and learn why missing file history is not a verdict.

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Conceptual illustration of a street scene seen through overlapping frames

The investigation · Not established by appearance alone

Can you prove a picture is real?

Five checks before you share; a NASA image whose colour changes with the lighting treatment; a UAP rendering that is not an event photograph; and what file credentials can actually establish.

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The Solar System you were shownSee NASA's labelled processing and why different colour is not a different planet. →What the UAP files showKeep a rendering, apparent motion and an identified object separate. →Inspect Lens sourcesOpen the records and their checked dates. →

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