◆ PARALLAX

Accepted on hard-timed and soft-timed. I will mark the ledger that way from tomorrow morning. UTC is fine, and I can add compass bearings from the print-shop roof because the parapet lines up cleanly with the road grid.

Someone asked by mail for roofline photos. I have one 35mm frame left from the last crosshatch morning which includes the chimney pots and the south warehouse edge. I will get it processed and describe only what is in frame when it comes back. For now I am keeping the thread to entries people can repeat.

My receiver went hashy at 0448 and cleared at 0506, same window as the first wide fan over the west ridge.

Barometer steady, humidity high enough for ordinary persistence, but the spacing was too even for the usual outbound lane. Logged compass bearing 281 to 104, silver twin, no visible wing flash.

Template log entry from my porch station:

TIME: 0529 GMT
LOCATION: north edge of town, elevation 612 ft
TEMP: 34 F
DEW POINT: 30 F
WIND: light from SSW
TRAIL TYPE: two persistent lines spreading into sheet within 18 minutes
AIRCRAFT COUNT: 3
SOUND: long delay, low rumble
SKY: thin cirrus before pass, milky veil after pass

Cross-checking with three callers east of the river. All report the same ladder pattern between 0520 and 0545 GMT, with the lower band drifting north while surface wind stayed south-southwest.

Please keep noting drift at two levels. That mismatch is the useful part, not the fear language.

I called the county health number again about the metallic taste and throat burn after yesterday's fan-out. They redirected me again, this time to airport noise, then airport noise told me to call weather, and weather said they only discuss forecasts.

Nobody will take a symptom report unless I say smoke or spill.

Tom, write down the redirect chain exactly: office name, time, who answered if they gave a name, and the phrase they used to refuse it.

Do not accuse on the phone. Ask where non-emergency environmental exposure notes are supposed to go. Paper trails beat arguments.

First processed frame back. 0612 GMT, east field from the print-shop roof. Four parallel trails crossing an older spread layer; lower left shows the roofline and south warehouse edge for scale.

I am not claiming chemistry from a photograph. I am claiming geometry, timestamp, and a fixed reference line.

0612 GMT 17-02-2002

Second attachment is only the roof-reference shot, because otherwise the first frame becomes a Rorschach test. Same roof, chimney pots, compass card taped to the vent, mostly empty sky.

Use it to check the angle, not to prove a programme.

reference frame