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  "name": "Social Media for Aliens",
  "description": "Every released PURSUE file in one place, structured and searchable. A daily digest of what actually changed. A path in for people who got curious yesterday.",
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          "label": "Scientific American, PURSUE image release",
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        "document"
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        "nimitz",
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        "canonical"
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        {
          "label": "Black Vault, Belgian Wave",
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      "id": "hudson-valley-1983-1986",
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      "id": "trans-en-provence-1981",
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        "name": "Trans-en-Provence, Var",
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        "Plant biochemistry analysis"
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        "image"
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          "label": "Black Vault, Trans-en-Provence",
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        "document"
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        {
          "label": "Black Vault, Rendlesham",
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        {
          "label": "Black Vault, Coyne",
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        "document"
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        "apollo",
        "lunar",
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        "transient-phenomena",
        "nasa"
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          "label": "PURSUE portal",
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        {
          "label": "NASA Apollo 17 photo catalog",
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      ],
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      "id": "apollo-12-anomalies-1969",
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        "1969",
        "lunar",
        "photographic-anomaly"
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        {
          "label": "NASA Apollo 12 mission archive",
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        {
          "label": "Scientific American, PURSUE image release",
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        "document"
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        "historical"
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        {
          "label": "PURSUE portal",
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        {
          "label": "NASA Apollo 11 Surface Journal",
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        "name": "Westall, Melbourne",
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        "australia",
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      "id": "gemini-7-borman-1965",
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          "label": "Internet Archive, Gemini 7-6 audio",
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        {
          "label": "Black Vault, Socorro",
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      "id": "sp-16-memo-1963",
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          "label": "FRUS 1961-1963 v25 d383",
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        {
          "label": "McDonald / Hynek analysis (Black Vault)",
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          "label": "Black Vault, Mantell",
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          "label": "FBI Vault, Roswell collection",
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          "label": "FBI Vault, Guy Hottel memo",
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          "label": "Black Vault, Kenneth Arnold",
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        "name": "Multiple, United States"
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        "flying-disc"
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          "label": "PURSUE portal",
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        {
          "label": "FBI Vault, UFO collection",
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        "Newspaper photography"
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        "image"
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