Albert Ostman Interview - 1971
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Albert Ostman
Historical witness profile documenting a reported encounter in British Columbia, Canada during 1924, with source provenance and connected research records.
British Columbia, Canada1924Provisional research profile
Location archiveBritish Columbia
Media & documentation
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At a glance
Encounter period1924
RegionBritish Columbia, Canada
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingNo
Co-witness / corroborationNo
Primary sourceBFRO / John Green
Exact locators1
Media / transcript records0
Summary
alleged family group; prolonged observation; humanlike behavior
Background & context
Logger / construction worker / prospector; outdoor experience: High wilderness exposure. The profile preserves what the entered sources document and does not infer missing biographical or encounter details.
Only public, encounter-relevant context is shown. Private contact details and precise residential information are not published.
Events
Encounter record
1924 · British Columbia, Canada
1924 reported encounter
alleged family group; prolonged observation; humanlike behavior
Witness-level record; dedicated case page not yet created
Dedicated case page not yet createdReported observations
LOC-0021
Source-linked observations — LOC-0021
- four-subject family group
- prolonged observation claim
- sex/age differentiation
- main-elements sworn accuracy qualification
Media & source material
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No dedicated media record is currently registered.
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Indexed source passages
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LOC-0021
BFRO Report 1091 — Albert Ostman account
Ostman describes a family of four subjects during a multi-day captivity narrative. John Green's follow-up says Ostman wrote the account before Green met him and later would swear only to the main elements rather than every surrounding detail.
Provenance
Source history
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1924
Reported encounter period
British Columbia, Canada. alleged family group; prolonged observation; humanlike behavior
1957 account / later archive
Report 1091 – Toba Inlet
Source supporting this witness profile: BFRO / John Green
Open source/record ↗Consistency & changes over time
Stable / recurrent
- Broadly stable
Added later
None coded in the current record.
Changed / contradicted
None coded in the current record.
Unresolved
- No captivity co-witness
- Full 1957/1959/1971 comparison
Controls
Corroboration & evidence
No independently recovered co-witness statement is currently linked at the profile level.
Sworn main-elements account; later investigator review. Evidence authenticity and testimony are evaluated separately.
Research assessment
Documentary strengths
- Already qualified for the Observatory's public baseline witness corpus.
- Recoverable source URL is preserved.
- 1 exact source locator record(s) currently recovered.
- The source matrix codes a reported direct visual.
Limitations / controls
- Current profile is primarily dependent on one entered source layer.
What would improve the record
- Search for earlier or independent firsthand source layers.
- A dedicated case record may be added if the event details can be resolved from public sources.
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Connections
Related reporting & research
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This does not mean the witness is absent from future cross-era or trait analysis.
Public record reference
Record identifier
- Witness ID
- WIT-PUB-0020
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