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Proof: US air force removes all bombers from British military base RAF Fairford

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-04T21:42:23Z","headline":"US air force removes all bombers from British military base RAF Fairford","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmwyve191dlko","v":1}

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SHA-256

4a202b0f2170ac9da7d89e8f37639ab91243ca8ce49c4764d10dee113944dac8

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969910, mined 2026-10-04 21:53 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 21:47 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 21:48 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-4a202b0f2170.json prints 4a202b0f2170ac9da7d89e8f37639ab91243ca8ce49c4764d10dee113944dac8. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-4a202b0f2170.json and headline-4a202b0f2170.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-4a202b0f2170.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.