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Who made each photograph, where it came from and the terms it is used under.

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Documentary photographs

59 photographs from the linked repositories, stored locally and shown without cropping. Captions keep their historical identification. No image is presented as a photograph of a UAP or nonhuman entity.

John von Neumann during his Los Alamos period.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

John von Neumann during his Los Alamos period.

Image source and permissions ↗ · LANL attribution permission. Los Alamos National Laboratory, from Los Alamos: Beginning of an era, 1943–1945 (1986). Photographer not individually identified. Displayed without cropping. Required attribution notice follows.

Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor LANS makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information.

Used in: 1945 · Stored instructions, Von Neumann · Reproduction needs a description

Close portrait of Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza

Festival della Scienza

Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza, Genoa, November 2005.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0. Original downloaded file; displayed without cropping. Existing repository crop retained where named.

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: Consciousness, Orch OR

Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and John C. Lilly seated together

Philip H. Bailey

Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and John C. Lilly (left to right), at Oscar Janiger’s home, 1991.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.5. Original downloaded file; displayed without cropping. Existing repository crop retained where named.

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: John C Lilly

Three men in shirtsleeves around a laboratory bench with electronic test equipment; one sits adjusting a small apparatus

AT&T / Bell Labs (photographer 'Jack St…', surname not legible on the print)

John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain (left to right) in a Bell Labs publicity photograph issued around the public announcement of the transistor in June 1948.

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: tagged PD-US-no notice on the file page (press print with no copyright notice). Provenance is a scan of an eBay print with a 1964 date stamp on the back, so keep the tag text with the record.

Used in: The transistor had a research history

A ruby rod, a spiral glass flashlamp and a white cylindrical housing on a black surface above a printed label reading World's first laser

Theodore and Kathleen Maiman

Parts of Theodore Maiman's first laser, as labelled in the photograph: 'World's first laser, May 16, 1960, Malibu, California, by Theodore H. Maiman'. Later photograph, taken in 2004 by Theodore and Kathleen Maiman; not a 1960 image.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 4.0 as tagged on the file page (photograph supplied by Kathleen Maiman); credit the authors and keep the same licence on adaptations.

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: Lasers extend a longer sequence

A typed Army form listing dated duty assignments in columns, including lines for Foreign Technology Div

Department of the Army

Page 3 of Philip J. Corso's U.S. Army Officer Qualification Record (DA Form 66), Record of Assignments. As read from this low-resolution scan, it lists 'Staff O Foreign Technology Div' (20 Jul 1961) and 'Chief Foreign Technology Div' (18 Apr 1962) at OCRD, Washington, DC, then 'Retired' (1 Mar 1963).

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: U.S. Army record, tagged PD-USGov-Military-Army on the file page. Scan is a low-resolution GIF converted to JPEG.

Used in: What Corso’s allegation actually contributes

Smiling man in glasses, dark suit and striped tie photographed in front of dark equipment panels

University of Michigan, News and Information Services

Arthur Burks, March 1971. Cropped extract from a University of Michigan photograph of Burks with a piece of ENIAC, which he helped develop. Burks edited von Neumann's Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata (1966).

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0 as tagged on the file page; source is the University of Michigan News and Information Services collection (quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-bl005640/BL005640). The uncropped Commons original also shows an unidentified woman, so this extract is used instead.

Used in: 1948–49 · Copying a machine and its description

Grey-bearded man in a striped shirt and tie leaning on a rooftop railing with tiled Stanford roofs behind him

Woodruff T. Sullivan III; NRAO/AUI Archives, Sullivan Collection (Rights NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Ronald N. Bracewell at Stanford, California, March 1983. Later photograph; his proposal about communication probes was published in 1960.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0 under the NRAO image-use policy, as tagged on the file page: the NRAO credit line must stay clearly visible and the image must not imply NRAO endorsement.

Used in: 1960 and 1980 · The space-probe extension

Portrait of a bald man in glasses and a blue striped shirt in front of an orange wall

Stephen Wolfram's PR team / Stephen Faust

Stephen Wolfram, publicity photograph supplied by his staff, 2008. Later photograph; the cited papers date from 1983 and 1984.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0. CC BY-SA 3.0 as tagged on the file page (received from Wolfram's staff). The file carries a personality-rights note, so use it only as an identifying portrait.

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: Wolfram · Complexity without complicated components

Black-and-white portrait of a man in round glasses, dark suit and tie looking to one side

Anefo / Nationaal Archief (photographer unknown)

Julian Huxley, from the Dutch Nationaal Archief (Anefo news-agency collection), catalogued 12 February 1964; photographer unknown and date of the original portrait not stated.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0 NL. CC BY-SA 3.0 NL as tagged on the file page (Dutch National Archives open data). This Commons file is a clean crop extracted from the CC0 original 'Prof._dr._Julian_Huxley,_Bestanddeelnr_916-0487.jpg', which shows the whole frame with the print pinned to board.

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: Huxley and a species becoming conscious of its possibilities

Bald man in round glasses, a dark corduroy jacket and white shirt on a blurred Oxford street

Ryan Cowan (file metadata); published by the Future of Humanity Institute

Nick Bostrom, portrait released by the Future of Humanity Institute (file dated 13 August 2020). Later photograph than his 2005 history.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0 as tagged on the file page (FHI press images). The summary credits the Future of Humanity Institute; embedded metadata names Ryan Cowan as author and copyright holder.

Used in: Bostrom and the movement as several overlapping histories

Black-and-white badge photograph of a smiling man in a dark coat with a photo-bar across his chest

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Stanislaw Ulam, Los Alamos identity-badge photograph, c. 1940s.

Image source and permissions ↗ · LANL attribution licence (PD-LosAlamos on Commons). CONDITIONAL, not public domain or CC: Los Alamos National Laboratory allows any use provided its notice and authorship are reproduced, the same basis as the existing von Neumann record. Include the notice below on the credits page.

Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor LANS makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information.

Used in: Ulam · An approaching historical discontinuity

Rows of tilted radio dishes with silvery feed horns under a cloudy sky among sagebrush

brewbooks (Flickr)

Antennas of the Allen Telescope Array, built by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Laboratory for astronomy and a search for extraterrestrial intelligence; photograph of 23 October 2010. An instrument photograph, not evidence of any signal.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0. CC BY-SA 2.0 as tagged on the file page, sourced from Flickr (brewbooks).

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: What a quiet sky and unidentified reports can establish

Black-and-white photograph of a young man in a work shirt seated in an armchair

Arthur Knight (photographer)

Philip K. Dick, photographed by Arthur Knight in 1962 or earlier; published on the back of the first 1962 Putnam edition of The Man in the High Castle. Taken about two decades before VALIS (1981).

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: tagged PD-US-no notice on the file page (published without a separate copyright notice on the 1962 book; no indication of renewal).

Used in: When information becomes more than a message, Revelation & counterculture

White-haired man seated in an armchair among bookshelves with his hands in his lap

Christopher Michel

Jacques Vallée, photographed by Christopher Michel, 12 December 2024. Later photograph than the 2006 interview.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 4.0 as tagged on the file page (own work of the photographer). Another photograph from the same session shows a flying-saucer-like painting behind him and was avoided.

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: A life form emerging through technology

Panellists seated at a draped table with NASA name cards while a man speaks at a lectern beside a US flag

NASA Headquarters / NASA/Joel Kowsky

Public meeting of NASA's unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) independent study team at NASA Headquarters, Washington, 31 May 2023; study chair David Spergel answers a question from the podium. A photograph of the meeting, not of any phenomenon.

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: NASA Headquarters photograph (NHQ202305310010), marked public domain on the file page.

Used in: AI as an anomaly detector

Black-and-white halftone photograph of an elderly man peering past a revolving bookcase, with an archive stamp at lower right

Sara Facio (Archivo General de la Nación Argentina)

Jorge Luis Borges at the Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires, 1973 (photograph by Sara Facio, Archivo General de la Nación). Borges directed the library from 1955 to 1973; his story 'The Library of Babel' dates from 1941.

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: tagged PD-AR-Photo and PD-1996 on the file page (Argentine photograph more than 20 years old). The scan shows halftone dots and a small Archivo General de la Nación stamp in the lower-right corner.

Used in: A story becomes somewhere to visit

Black-and-white portrait of a man in a grey jacket and dark tie in front of patterned horse-print fabric

Carl Van Vechten (Library of Congress)

Giorgio de Chirico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 (Library of Congress). A portrait of the painter, not a reproduction of The Song of Love (1914).

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: the Library of Congress believes the Van Vechten collection is free of restrictions (PD-Van Vechten tag). The Van Vechten estate asks that photographs not be cropped or colourised and that Van Vechten be credited.

Used in: De Chirico · Ordinary objects, impossible company

Sepia portrait of a young man with swept-back dark hair, striped shirt and tweed jacket looking to the left

Henri Manuel

André Breton, photographed by Henri Manuel, 1927. A contextual portrait of a leading surrealist; the cited MoMA page discusses the surrealists as a group.

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: tagged PD-Art / PD-old-auto-expired on the file page (photographer died in 1947).

Used in: Dreams as a method of making art

Stuart Hameroff speaking on a conference stage, hands held together in front of him

Zereshk

Stuart Hameroff speaking at the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, Arizona, 2008. Later photograph, not from the 2000 decoherence exchange.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY 3.0. Licence basis: CC BY 3.0 as stated on the file page (uploader's own work, also offered under GFDL); credit the photographer.

Used in: The decoherence dispute

Federico Faggin in a tuxedo holding a wine glass beside the 2009 Fellow Awards Intel 4004 Team display

Dicklyon

Federico Faggin at the Computer History Museum's Fellow Awards event, 20 October 2009, beside the display for the Intel 4004 team, when he was inducted as a Fellow. A later portrait of an engineer who now writes on consciousness.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence basis: CC BY-SA 4.0 as stated on the file page (uploader's own work); share-alike applies to adaptations.

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: Quantum information and experience

Robin Carhart-Harris gesturing while speaking at a meeting table

Thomas Angus, Imperial College London

Robin Carhart-Harris during a meeting at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, 23 July 2019. Photograph by Thomas Angus, Imperial College London. Carhart-Harris is first author of the 2016 LSD neuroimaging study cited here.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence basis: CC BY-SA 4.0 as stated on the file page; Imperial supplied it at 600 px under its Wikipedia image policy.

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: A different kind of evidence from brain imaging

Glass-fronted entrance of a mid-century building with a brick staircase and an SRI International sign

Coolcaesar at English Wikipedia

Main entrance of SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, California, photographed 6 May 2007. A later photograph of the institution (formerly Stanford Research Institute) where Targ and Puthoff worked; it does not show the experimental rooms.

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0. Licence basis: CC BY-SA 3.0 as stated on the file page (relicensed from the uploader's GFDL release under the Commons migration tag).

The photograph and any adaptation of it remain under the linked ShareAlike licence.

Used in: Remote viewing

Russell Targ, an older man with grey hair and rimless glasses, in a dark zip-up jumper

Patricia Targ (photographer; subject's wife)

Russell Targ, photographed by his wife Patricia Targ on 11 May 2014. A much later portrait of the physicist who co-authored the 1974 SRI paper.

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: released by the photographer Patricia Targ (PD-author tag, with a permission ticket, on the file page).

Used in: SRI’s sensory-shielding experiments

Typewritten page reading MARS EXPLORATION, May 22, 1984, with CIA release stamps at top and bottom

Monitor and Subject (as credited on the file page); CIA Reading Room scan

First page of the nine-page declassified scan 'MARS EXPLORATION, May 22, 1984' (CIA Reading Room document CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9, stamped approved for release 8 August 2000). It carries only the title and date; the printed page number is 8.

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: US federal government record, PD-USGov as marked on the file page.

Used in: Mars Exploration · 22 May 1984

Printed title page of The Astral Plane by C. W. Leadbeater, 1895, with a circular library stamp over the lower half

Charles Webster Leadbeater (author); scan of the 1895 first edition

Title page of the first edition of C. W. Leadbeater's The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1895), from a copy bearing a Toledo Theosophical Society library stamp.

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: PD-old-70-expired (author died 1934; published 1895), as marked on the file page.

Used in: 1895 · A plane with its own scenery

Typewritten Department of the Army memorandum on US Army Operational Group letterhead titled Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process

Wayne M. McDonnell; CIA FOIA Reading Room scan

First page of 'Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process', US Army Operational Group letterhead, Fort George G. Meade, dated 9 June 1983, by Wayne M. McDonnell; CIA Reading Room copy approved for release 10 September 2003 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5).

Image source and permissions ↗ · Public domain. Public domain: US federal government work, PD-USGov-CIA as marked on the file page.

Used in: 1983 · The Army’s Gateway assessment

A pale branching seaweed impression across a blue book page, with the handwritten name Dictyota dichotoma underneath.

Anna Atkins / The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005

Anna Atkins, Dictyota dichotoma, ca. 1853. Cyanotype from Photographs of British Algae; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.100.557 (18).

Image source and permissions ↗ · CC0 1.0. Commons marks this Met-donated reproduction CC0; the museum object record marks it Public Domain. Original artwork by Anna Atkins; embedded digitisation metadata names Dahab Katherine. No edits applied to downloaded original. Local reproduction resized proportionally without cropping.

Used in: The blue seaweed book made without a camera

Editorial illustrations

Where no suitable documentary photograph could be reused, entries carry an editorial illustration made for Z13. They are imaginary motifs: architecture, objects, paths, waves and networks. They are not scientific diagrams, website screenshots, religious iconography, or evidence of the experiences described.

Geometric studies were authored in code for Z13, 19–20 October 2026; their source is kept in scripts/illustrations.py. No third-party imagery or fonts are embedded in them.