'Sentinels of Ether' - triangulated setting (Coyame, Chihuahua)
competing-explanationgeolocationSOF/JSOC UAP Retrieval Claim
📍 Chihuahuan Desert nr Coyame (fiction) 29.600, -105.100 · approx
Geo-triangulation of the novel's prologue from the actual sample text: the helicopter crash-retrieval + refugee-container extraction is set in the Chihuahuan Desert 'just north of Cayome [Coyame], Mexico' (~29.47N 105.10W), in-story ~2004. The container (a Conex slung under helo H-2, ~2 dozen women & children inside) is flown ~10-15 mi to a HOLOGRAPHICALLY-CLOAKED lone mountain base with a 1,500-ft shear cliff at the dead-end of a dry river gorge - the rotorcraft fly THROUGH the dematerializing cliff face.
[TRIANGULATION - fiction with real anchors] Hard textual anchors: 'north/east of Cayome, Mexico'; 'Chihuahua desert'; 'White Sands Missile Range NM, 170 mi north of Coyame' (real distance is ~240-300 mi, so story distances are inflated/mood-setting, not survey-grade). Destination is FICTIONAL + intentionally cloaked -> no recoverable real coordinate. Best real-world match for the described lone-massif-with-cliff = Sierra El Pulpito, the most prominent of 119 named mountains in Coyame del Sotol municipality. The deliberate tell: setting a crash-retrieval story AT Coyame homages the 1974 Coyame crash legend (same beats: recovered disk, ~24 dead Mexican soldiers, covert US night recovery). Bounded search box: ~10-15 mi N/NE of Coyame del Sotol toward the Rio Conchos. See research_outputs/sentinels-of-ether-analysis.md.
Connected entities
'Sentinels of Ether' - Barber's DOPSR-redacted novel-as-disclosure (2026)'Sentinels of Ether' - narrative & tech mechanics (prologue + Ch.1)Coyame 1974 UFO crash ('Mexico's Roswell')Crash-retrieval case pattern.