WATCHTOWER 2.0 — BASELINE LEARNING
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Pick a tier. All three matter. Start at the one that fits your next fifteen minutes.

Tier 3 · I want to help
Every button below opens a pre-filled email to watchtowerproject@proton.me.

I want to build this with you.

01 · Sensor

Deploy in your county

Open-source Watchtower 2.0 plus a $40 RTL-SDR receiver. Same methodology, your airspace. Email for the deployment guide and a sensor ID.

Request deployment guide
02 · Legal

Request a referral

If you are affected by overflight surveillance, we route a hashed evidence package to a civil rights attorney in our network. You stay anonymous to us until you choose otherwise.

Start intake
03 · FOIA

File a public records request

Pre-drafted FOIA and California Public Records Act templates for sheriff aviation, contracted operators, and fusion centers. We send the latest version.

Request templates
04 · Press

Pitch a journalist

Reporters get bulk access to anonymized data, methodology notes, and a press contact. No NDA, no embargo, no editorial strings.

Request data + briefing
05 · Fund

Underwrite a county

$5,000 deploys sensors and a year of compute for one county. We publish where every dollar goes. Email for the funding memo.

Get funding memo
06 · Build

Contribute code

React, Postgres, Python ML, ADS-B decoding. Issues are tagged. PRs welcome. CC BY-SA 4.0. Email to be added to the contributor list.

Join the build
From the record
Negative altitudes are not anomalies. They are evidence of ground-based spoofing the FAA registered anyway.
Watchtower Project — Transponder Anomaly Notes

Or reach a human.

Press, legal, and partnership inquiries: watchtowerproject@proton.me

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