Ran Sun-Tzu briefs + case-writer for the 4 corpus-eligible iconic cases.
Results:
- Kenneth Arnold 1947 → /c/kenneth-arnold-1947 (brief B-0002, 275s)
- Mantell 1948 → /c/mantell-1948 (brief B-0003, 282s)
- Roswell 1947 → skipped (INSUFFICIENT_ARTEFACTS, thin corpus)
- Maury Island 1947 → skipped (INSUFFICIENT_ARTEFACTS, thin corpus)
The two that landed got bold enthusiast-grade closers woven from the
Sun-Tzu strategic brief:
- Kenneth Arnold: "O objeto que descreveram: 6 metros de largura, cor
de chama nas laterais, 75 pés acima do Rio Snake a 1.000 milhas por
hora. O governo guardou esse relato. O que concluiu sobre as
características físicas que ele continha permanece ausente destes
arquivos."
- Mantell: "Qualquer que fosse a coisa no céu sobre o Kentucky em
janeiro de 1948, a Força Aérea a registrou como 'disco voador' e a
deixou assim."
iconic-cases.ts: kenneth-arnold-1947 + mantell-1948 links now point to
their /c/ narratives instead of /e/ entity pages. Hero art copied to the
slug filenames so the case pages render full-bleed illustrations.
Roswell + Maury Island keep /e/ links (no narrative — corpus too thin).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
8 hand-picked UFO incidents that any enthusiast recognises:
- Kenneth Arnold 1947 (the genesis — "flying saucers" coined)
- Roswell 1947 (the original Army press release)
- Maury Island 1947 (Puget Sound, slag drop, FBI plane crash)
- Mantell 1948 (first known UFO casualty)
- Rendlesham Forest 1980 (USAF security police, deputy commander tape)
- Phoenix Lights 1997 (V-formation across Arizona, governor's reversal)
- Nimitz Tic-Tac 2004 (USS Nimitz F/A-18, gun-cam released 2017)
- Green Fireballs Sandia 1948 (copper salts, nuclear-site overflights)
Each case has:
- Bilingual hand-written editorial blurb (PT-BR + EN, no LLM)
- Painterly editorial hero illustration at 2K
- Year + tag chips (military / civilian / modern / early / naval /
aviation / mass-sighting)
- Link to /e/events/<id> when indexed in corpus, /search?q=... when not,
/c/<slug> for the green-fireballs narrative case
Components:
lib/iconic-cases.ts — IconicCase type + ICONIC_CASES editorial list
components/iconic-cases.tsx — magazine grid: first two as wide hero pair,
rest as 3-up tiles below. Hover scale on images, gradient overlays,
aspect-16/11 hero + 16/10 compact, lazy-loaded.
app/page.tsx — inserted between <FeaturedCase /> and <PortalGrid />
4 new hero illustrations generated this session:
- iconic-nimitz-tic-tac-2004.png (Nano Banana Pro)
- iconic-phoenix-lights-1997.png (Nano Banana Pro)
- iconic-rendlesham-forest-1980.png (gpt-image-1.5 via Codex)
- iconic-mantell-1948.png (Nano Banana Pro)
Per user direction: mixed generators (Nano Banana primary, Codex
co-pilot) so the homepage has stylistic variety while keeping the
painterly editorial register.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
