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04.Found Footage_ FTAA 920326 📼.mp4

Found Footage FTAA 920326 📼.srt

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If I’m understanding the numbering and judging the dates mentioned in the videos correctly, this should be the next one in the series. The VCR I have access to isn’t the best. I found it at a local thrift shop and sometimes it sounds like it’s on its last legs.

In defense of my VCR skills, some of the tapes also seem like they’re on their last legs, too. They’ve had a hard life - mostly thanks to what I'm guessing is temperature fluctuation. It’s amazing how the environment can wreak havoc on technology so easily.

Old tech is fascinating to me, but I’ve never really thought about it as historic. When my parents recorded Law & Order and watched it a few days later it all felt... normal? Now that idea - programming a VCR to record, making sure there’s space on the tape, etc. - feels so long ago, so foreign.

One of a number of tapes I found in a cardboard box of vintage electronic manuals at a charity used book sale to benefit the public defender's office. Folks from around the area, libraries, and businesses all drop off donations. These tapes were buried under the manuals in the box and they looked weird so I stuffed them in my bag alongside some other books.

The tapes look like they were sent to a local TV station in the early 1990s. Each has its own cardboard sleeve with a serial number written on the outside.

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Transcript

• 0:00 - FTAA Warning

• 0:13 - Morse Code

• 0:14 - QR code

  

• Transcript: The Federal Temporal Anomaly Authority in New Amsterdam City, New Amsterdam has issued a notice for the following areas: Washington County, Maryland and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. At approximately 2 pm on March 26th, an FTAA field office in Chambersburg received multiple reports of incursion of anomalous artifacts into this era. The artifacts are sealed envelopes which have unexplainably appeared in prominent locations within the homes of local residents. These letters are addressed to the residents directly, often indicating not only location but the exact date and time of their appearance. Example letters transmitted to the FTAA field office seem to share similar traits: letters appear to be sent from descendants of the recipient, letters implore for help averting a growing calamity, letters may include specific personal details - including foreknowledge of future events - intended to sway recipients to action. Foreknowledge of future events has potential to create minor causal loops, event ripples, or paradoxes and may impact regional chronological stability. Residents are advised that if any suspicious material appears within their residence or place of employment, do not touch, open, or otherwise tamper with the artifact. Report the object’s location to local civil or military authorities who will coordinate with FTAA for its removal. Secure all doors and Immediately vacate the premises to await arrival of proper authorities. Remain tuned to local broadcasters for further instructions and updates.

• 2:07 - Morse Code

• 2:07 - Strings of Letters “JRYSZLAWAAIGAIUKRLTSWEFHZCFXXNVDTYFHGBEGHYTFPCZVVSSLIDZPVTCZLRJAAEVIOESFXEQQMXLHSICLTZNOPFVIOYCYELAMRIOPGDXSNECPBHXZXEQJTYRZHNNLOCXRXUJTLQTRGOJIZEERRDFSRIVEXZGSKHPLGRDTVEFKFZGSESJWSVIZNOCENZUAIFCWLJEJRLTSRSASFVGNUGLGEGWSQIAVLFSTGEFPBHTROSFNDLNQHSRXWNEDTZOEFIFSCRZHVRXZBF”

Puzzles

• Clock is at 2:45 position - Q in semaphore