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Proof: Five men arrested in UK military base incident released on police bail

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T21:20:32Z","headline":"Five men arrested in UK military base incident released on police bail","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6e9elmpvglno","v":1}

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SHA-256

3711a4f6061f35d374419a1c6972a6c06c4622bc29a1f81d7df7c07c950981d0

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969054, mined 2026-09-28 22:10 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 21:22 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 20:55 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-3711a4f6061f.json prints 3711a4f6061f35d374419a1c6972a6c06c4622bc29a1f81d7df7c07c950981d0. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-3711a4f6061f.json and headline-3711a4f6061f.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-3711a4f6061f.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, 2 min after it was first seen.