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Proof: RAF Fairford suspects are British men in their 20s, police say, as Iranian embassy denies involvement

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T13:32:06Z","headline":"RAF Fairford suspects are British men in their 20s, police say, as Iranian embassy denies involvement","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c65y7nl29k0et","v":1}

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SHA-256

3b094332e55106706fd809dd42aa1e5d5fe4923d8a41bf2ba955083aca0b78fd

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969004, mined 2026-09-28 13:55 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 13:38 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 16:46 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-3b094332e551.json prints 3b094332e55106706fd809dd42aa1e5d5fe4923d8a41bf2ba955083aca0b78fd. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-3b094332e551.json and headline-3b094332e551.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-3b094332e551.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, 5 min after it was first seen.