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  "case_count": 9,
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    {
      "slug": "kenneth-arnold-1947",
      "debate_no": "002",
      "title": "Kenneth Arnold, Mount Rainier, June 1947",
      "era": 1947,
      "one_line": "The sighting that coined 'flying saucer' - a private pilot watched nine bright objects flying in a chain near Mount Rainier at an estimated 1,200 mph.",
      "case_status_before": "UNEXPLAINED (Project Blue Book BB-0001)",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 3,
        "disagree": 9,
        "partial": 11,
        "neutral": 7
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "mantell-1948",
      "debate_no": "003",
      "title": "Captain Thomas Mantell, Kentucky, January 1948",
      "era": 1948,
      "one_line": "The first death attributed to a UFO pursuit - a National Guard P-51 pilot chased a bright object to 25,000 feet and crashed after losing consciousness.",
      "case_status_before": "EXPLAINED (Skyhook balloon - but contested for decades; Project Blue Book BB-0002)",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 10,
        "disagree": 5,
        "partial": 11,
        "neutral": 4
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "washington-flap-1952",
      "debate_no": "004",
      "title": "The Washington Flap, July 1952",
      "era": 1952,
      "one_line": "Four Project Blue Book cases over ten days: radar operators at Washington National Airport tracked unknowns over the Capitol; two consecutive Saturday-night waves; Coast Guard and civilian witnesses corroborated. The cluster that triggered the CIA's Robertson Panel.",
      "case_status_before": "UNEXPLAINED / temperature inversion (contested; Project Blue Book BB-0011 through BB-0014; Robertson Panel 1953)",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 4,
        "disagree": 5,
        "partial": 14,
        "neutral": 7
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "rb-47-1957",
      "debate_no": "005",
      "title": "The RB-47 Incident, July 1957",
      "era": 1957,
      "one_line": "A USAF RB-47 electronic-reconnaissance aircraft was tracked by an unknown object for over 700 miles - detected simultaneously on airborne radar, ground radar, and the aircraft's ELINT gear.",
      "case_status_before": "UNEXPLAINED (Project Blue Book BB-0024; cited by the Condon Report as one of the hardest cases)",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 6,
        "disagree": 4,
        "partial": 15,
        "neutral": 5
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "father-gill-png-1959",
      "debate_no": "001",
      "title": "Father William Gill, Papua New Guinea, June 1959",
      "era": 1959,
      "one_line": "An Anglican missionary and 38 witnesses watched a disc-shaped object with humanoid figures, twice, on consecutive nights. Hynek called it the case he could least dismiss.",
      "case_status_before": "UNEXPLAINED (Project Blue Book BB-0028; 1969 Condon Report dismissed it on witness-suggestibility grounds)",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 13,
        "disagree": 5,
        "partial": 9,
        "neutral": 3
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "socorro-zamora-1964",
      "debate_no": "006",
      "title": "Lonnie Zamora, Socorro, New Mexico, April 1964",
      "era": 1964,
      "one_line": "A police officer observed a white egg-shaped craft with two small figures beside it in a gully; it departed on a roaring flame, leaving physical landing traces.",
      "case_status_before": "UNEXPLAINED (Project Blue Book BB-0033; one of Blue Book's small set of permanently unexplained cases)",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 10,
        "disagree": 6,
        "partial": 9,
        "neutral": 5
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "rendlesham-forest-1980",
      "debate_no": "007",
      "title": "Rendlesham Forest, England, December 1980",
      "era": 1980,
      "one_line": "Multiple U.S. Air Force personnel at RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge reported a landed craft over three nights - 'Britain's Roswell'. (Note: the anchor event node carries an extraction-artifact timestamp; the real date is December 1980.)",
      "case_status_before": "UNEXPLAINED (UK MoD investigation; the Halt memo is the primary document)",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 5,
        "disagree": 7,
        "partial": 10,
        "neutral": 8
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "nimitz-tic-tac-2004",
      "debate_no": "008",
      "title": "USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac', November 2004",
      "era": 2004,
      "one_line": "Navy pilots tracked a Tic-Tac-shaped object via radar from three vessels (Princeton, Nimitz, E-2) and an F/A-18's FLIR. The anchor event is CDR Fravor's 2023-24 sworn congressional testimony about the 2004 incident.",
      "case_status_before": "UNEXPLAINED (AARO review ongoing; the FLIR1/GIMBAL/GOFAST videos are the primary record)",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 12,
        "disagree": 2,
        "partial": 10,
        "neutral": 6
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "western-us-event-2025",
      "debate_no": "009",
      "title": "Western US event, December 2025",
      "era": 2025,
      "one_line": "Infrared imagery of an unidentified object over the western United States, December 2025 - released in PURSUE Release 01 on the war.gov/UFO portal, May 8 2026.",
      "case_status_before": "UNADJUDICATED - released May 2026, interpretation explicitly left to the public",
      "persona_count": 6,
      "consensus_counts": {
        "agree": 8,
        "disagree": 5,
        "partial": 12,
        "neutral": 5
      },
      "voiced": true,
      "audio_url": null
    }
  ]
}