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Proof: Saudi air defenses knock down ballistic missile north of Riyadh

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T04:50:56Z","headline":"Saudi air defenses knock down ballistic missile north of Riyadh","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"arabnews","url":"https://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/saudi-air-defenses-knock-down-ballistic-missile-north-of-riyadh-3005001","v":1}

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SHA-256

170de0b6da719347e4a66fd84b0968e15e561fb1f4562b76590d654fb71656d4

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970294, mined 2026-10-07 05:08 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 04:55 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-170de0b6da71.json prints 170de0b6da719347e4a66fd84b0968e15e561fb1f4562b76590d654fb71656d4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-170de0b6da71.json and headline-170de0b6da71.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-170de0b6da71.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.