Release 05's PDF metadata records a mixed production pipeline
All 22 Release 05 PDFs have a populated /Author field, but their PDF producer and creator values are not uniform: 21 use Adobe Acrobat (32-bit) 26 Paper Capture Plug-in, one has no /Producer, two CIA PDFs name Highland Technologies, and one FBI PDF names Adobe Acrobat 23.6 as /Creator.
The catalog does not expose PDF production metadata. These fields preserve a small but useful provenance map of how the tranche was prepared, including the exceptional FBI rendering and the two CIA files with a vendor creator stamp.
By the numbers
Evidence
The complete metadata inventory is preserved in archive/2026-08-07/release-05-metadata.json.
Producer: 21 PDFs report Adobe Acrobat (32-bit) 26 Paper Capture Plug-in; FBI-UAP-D041 has no /Producer.
Creator: CIA-UAP-D022 and CIA-UAP-D023 report Highland Technologies, Inc.; FBI-UAP-D027 reports Adobe Acrobat 23.6; the other 19 PDFs have no /Creator.
Author: every PDF has a non-empty author value — DOW (4), FBI (13), CIA (2), Department of State (2), and EOP (1).