Tier 2finding · orphan-pdfs
Orphan PDFs still served at predictable URLs
Four PDFs are present on the public server but no longer referenced by the live manifest. Earlier versions remain quietly accessible.
The pattern — that the Department of War still serves earlier versions of files at predictable URLs — is itself the finding.
Evidence
Files present on disk but not referenced by the current uap-data.csv:
dow-uap-d20-mission-report-southern-united-states-2023.pdf** — byte-identical to the Iraq version (see Finding 1, *d20-location-swap*).59_214434_sp_16_7.18.1963.pdf** — byte-identical to the bracketed version that *is* referenced (md56039f96c52e566b69f3a3d774b7653fa).serial 5 redacted_redacted.pdf** (with a literal space in the filename).18_100754_ general 1946-7_vol_2.pdf** (leading space inside the filename).
Sources
www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1
Disk listing diffed against catalog