Extraterrestrials in the Stacks: An Archivist’s Journey with Alien Abduction, A Stained Blue Dress, and the Betty and Barney Hill Collection
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A COUPLE from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, reentered the United States following a belated honeymoon in Canada.They crossed northeastern Vermont before entering New Hampshire at Colebrook, where they dined at a small caf e.Although road weary and seventy miles from home, Barney calculated that they could reach Portsmouth by 3:00 A.M. and endeavored to drive straight through.Leaving the restaurant, Barney pointed their 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air south on US Route 3 heading to Lancaster, New Hampshire.After Lancaster, the road and the travelers turned southeast toward Franconia Notch.It was then that Betty became aware of lights in the sky.Before the night was over, the strange lights and the events that allegedly followed would forever change the course of their lives.In subsequent years, their descriptions of events that night, real or perceived, would cast them as central figures in interest surrounding the alien abduction of humans.And the accounts, research, and ephemera they collected to document those events, now housed at the University of New Hampshire, would both keep their story alive and provide source material for future debate (Fuller 17-20).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.053 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".