Why “The Phone Booth.”

A phone booth is the smallest threshold in fiction. Clark Kent steps in as a reporter and steps out as Superman. The Doctor parks the TARDIS as a 1960s call box and the box holds another universe. Neo answers a phone in a public booth and the rules of the world change for him.

The booth is a small, ordinary, public object. The thing it connects to is anything but. That's the trick — and the metaphor for what this section is doing.

On one side of the booth: the consensus story. The official record. The map most of us walk around with. On the other side: the testimony, the witnesses, the field reports, the footage, the unexplained data. The booth is where you step in to make the call. The studio answers.

We're not the gospel. We're not the debunkers' desk either. We're a small studio that takes the field seriously enough to put a phone on the wall and pick up when the line rings.

That's the name. That's the work.