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Proof: Farmer who called 999 saw 'large group of hooded and masked men' near RAF Fairford, she tells BBC

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T05:50:14Z","headline":"Farmer who called 999 saw 'large group of hooded and masked men' near RAF Fairford, 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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db96468aa7875886e88b5a0b2b60480e266893848afde17b2d2a1d2f190198f6

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968954, mined 2026-09-28 06:00 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 05:52 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:28 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-db96468aa787.json prints db96468aa7875886e88b5a0b2b60480e266893848afde17b2d2a1d2f190198f6. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-db96468aa787.json and headline-db96468aa787.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-db96468aa787.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.