Samizdat PublicationsThings I built to see if they could be built.

No. 007UAP, v1.0, opened 07/25/2026

3I/ATLAS Anomaly Console

A mission-control console that tracked interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on real JPL trajectories, logging each anomaly as it happened.

Built with Opus 5

1What is real

  • 1Ephemeris vectors for 3I/ATLAS, 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/BorisovNASA/JPL HorizonsPublic domain
  • 2Fireball impact catalogNASA/JPL CNEOS Fireball Data APIUS government data, public domain
  • 3Land outlinesNatural EarthPublic domain
  • 4Fireball eyewitness report countsAmerican Meteor Society / IMOPublic statistics pages, aggregated
  • 5Camera meteor photometryGlobal Meteor NetworkCC BY 4.0
  • 6Daylight bolide detectionsNASA GLM bolide catalog (ATAP)US government data, public domain
  • 7Volcano positionsNOAA NCEIUS government data, public domain
  • 8Nuclear power reactor positionsWorld Resources Institute, Global Power Plant DatabaseCC BY 4.0
  • 9Other nuclear site positionsWikidataCC0
  • 10UFO sighting aggregatesNUFORC archive via planetsig/ufo-reportsAggregates only
  • 113D scenethree.jsMIT
  • 12Share Tech Mono typefaceCarrois ApostropheSIL OFL 1.1

2How it was built

52 commits, counted from the repository history:

  • Opus 552

3Related files

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