Vanity Fair 2006: NORAD tapes vs earlier public NORAD timeline

Observation

Published tape reconstruction shows NORAD's early public timeline was inconsistent with its own audio.

Interpretation

False official chronology is documented. Cause (fog, CYA, or design) is not.

Source text

SECONDARY but tape-based: Vanity Fair's 2006 article is one of the main public windows on the NORAD tapes. It corroborates Commission staff (Farmer) that early NORAD accounts were not accurate.

This is process evidence for H011 (response more than accident) only at the level of false official story; it does not prove a stand-down order.

Hypothesis linkage

• H011supportsseeded

  Tapes contradict NORAD's first public timeline.