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Watch that question. It invites the thread to become a religion in one word. A useful insider thread is not the one where the poster says the sacred noun. It is the one where the poster gives a mundane pattern we can compare against the world.

Not as a noun. I heard not ours and not terrestrial in conversations I was not supposed to be near. Both could mean foreign, experimental, or exactly what you want them to mean. I am not giving you more than the words.

Not ours is classic compartment language and can mean another office. Not terrestrial is more interesting, but it also gets used for satellite material in some contexts. Do not let one adjective do all the work.

The skeptics are laundering every alien word into office furniture.

Correct. Office furniture is where a lot of alleged alien words go to die. The survivors are more interesting after the furniture is checked.

Thread index so far: vendor shadow, hardened storage, tape custody, color labels, phrases not ours and not terrestrial. Evidence status: none. Search status: four narrow lanes. That is better than noise.

Can someone explain why Dan would lie this boringly?

Boring lies travel farther here because they borrow the board ethic. That is not an accusation, just a structural warning. Every community eventually makes a costume out of its virtues.