Update: I rebuilt PURSUE Console into a cleaner UFO release investigation desk with source-confidence, review queues, and volunteer OCR I posted an earlier version of PURSUE Console here and it did not get much traction. Fair enough, the first version looked cool, but it was also cluttered and probably felt more like a visual demo than a practical research tool. Since then I’ve done a major cleanup and rebuild. PURSUE Console is now less “encyclopedia of UFO visualizations” and more “working investigation desk” for the war.gov UFO release. What changed: Cut the navigation from 13 views down to 8 Removed duplicate/decorative views Made LIVE, SEARCH, SEMANTIC, REVIEW, DOSSIER, TIMELINE, ATLAS, and NETWORK the core flow Added a pinned VOLUNTEER button Added a live REVIEW badge showing how many pages need attention Unified the corpus counts so the site no longer shows conflicting numbers Brought the top search box back into the header Made the hero/branding appear only on LIVE so the other tools load straight into content Cut the main JS bundle from 893 KB to about 400 KB The biggest change is the data-quality layer. Each page/event can now show which sources transcribed it : Gemini, GPT Vision, human, OCR, etc. — plus agreement/confidence information and whether it needs review. The goal is not to invent claims. The goal is to make the official source material easier to search, compare, audit, and correct. NETWORK also got rebuilt. It now maps events to: entities shapes behaviors sensors semantic similarity source confidence review status So instead of just browsing isolated UFO records, you can see clusters like disc sightings, radar cases, visual reports, high-speed events, agency-linked records, and pages that need review. The volunteer path is now clearer too. The project needs help with OCR, transcription cleanup, missing records, source checking, and review. You do not need to be a developer to contribute. The useful work is reading primary documents, correcting transcriptions, and helping turn scanned PDFs into a searchable corpus. Live site: https://rizzleroc.github.io/pursue-console/ Repo: https://github.com/rizzleroc/pursue-console Original Parsed data set: https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/UFO-USA/tree/main Best starting point for contributors: HOW-CAN-I-HELP.md I’m looking for people who want to help make the release more searchable and source-grounded, not people to argue conclusions. The point is to improve the corpus so everyone can investigate from the same primary material. submitted by /u/rizzleroc [link] [comments]