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Proof: Farmer who called police saw 'large group of hooded and masked men' near military base, she tells BBC

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T07:02:38Z","headline":"Farmer who called police saw 'large group of hooded and masked men' near military base, she tells BBC","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c65y7nl29k0et","v":1}

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939f5929c4bf01c4024d523efe8a0da528388148ff887023debe9086ec87505e

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968966, mined 2026-09-28 07:32 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 07:07 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 07:08 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-939f5929c4bf.json prints 939f5929c4bf01c4024d523efe8a0da528388148ff887023debe9086ec87505e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-939f5929c4bf.json and headline-939f5929c4bf.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-939f5929c4bf.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, 4 min after it was first seen.