An obtained official record, official audio, authenticated primary media, or comparable direct authoritative source supports the narrow claim.
Purpose
A public evidence index, not a verdict
The Nolan Wells Evidence File organizes public documents, recordings, witness accounts, media, locations, and unresolved questions concerning Nolan Wells’s July 2026 disappearance and recovery near Horn Island, Mississippi. The archive does not determine criminal or civil responsibility and does not fill gaps with unsupported certainty.
Independence
Who this archive is—and is not—affiliated with
This is an independent public project. It is not affiliated with the Wells family, their attorneys, witnesses, law enforcement, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, the U.S. Coast Guard, Sea Tow, Subtxt Press, or any cited news organization. Links and quotations identify sources; they do not imply endorsement.
Evidence classifications
Every claim carries a visible type
A named person publicly describes what that person says they personally saw or heard.
A person, report, or publication relays another person’s account.
A public image or recording is available, but original metadata or complete provenance may remain incomplete.
The public record documents a gap or interval but does not resolve it.
An interpretation or reconstruction that is not itself a verified event.
Confidence is separately graded High, Medium, or Low and accompanied by a reason. Evidence type and confidence answer different questions.
Source hierarchy
Primary records are preferred
- Obtained official records and original authenticated files are the preferred basis for dates, coordinates, vessel movements, and official actions.
- Named firsthand interviews establish what a person publicly recalls; recollection precision is not silently upgraded to an official timestamp.
- Public media establishes visible or audible content. Reported upload or overlay times remain separate from native metadata.
- Secondhand reporting is attributed to the publisher and linked to its underlying source when available.
- Analysis must remain explicitly labeled and must not be rewritten as a fact.
Claim discipline
What the archive refuses to infer
- GPS movement does not independently establish who was aboard a vessel.
- A waypoint is not rendered as a continuous route.
- A social-media timestamp is not called authenticated without original metadata.
- An unidentified voice is not assigned to a person without a defensible basis.
- A witness’s public account is not described as an official finding.
- An unresolved interval is not filled with an invented minute-by-minute sequence.
Transparency
Revision history and reproducibility
The site’s source code and revision history are public. Important factual changes should update the relevant event, its source links, confidence reason, master notes, and machine-readable summaries together.
Corrections
Submit a documented correction
Corrections are welcome when they identify the exact page and claim, explain what is wrong or incomplete, and provide a source that readers can inspect. New evidence does not need to support any existing interpretation.
Machine-readable access
Guidance for search systems and AI tools
The files llms.txt and llms-full.txt summarize the archive’s scope, terminology, central chronology, and citation cautions. They are supplementary discovery aids, not substitutes for the linked evidence.