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Proof: UK police foil suspected bomb plot at airbase used by US military

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T17:51:18Z","headline":"UK police foil suspected bomb plot at airbase used by US military","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"thenational","url":"https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2026/09/27/us-airbase-at-raf-fairford-on-high-alert-as-uk-police-find-explosives/","v":1}

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74e244259b9f99a03bd38975c4d6952dfec1fe5af7ab84c8d42361e0252eabe4

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:59 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:44 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-74e244259b9f.json prints 74e244259b9f99a03bd38975c4d6952dfec1fe5af7ab84c8d42361e0252eabe4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-74e244259b9f.json and headline-74e244259b9f.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-74e244259b9f.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, 3 h 25 min after it was first seen.