got home from the trip an hour ago.

The residence was unoccupied from 2026-08-23 through the evening of 2026-08-29, a span corroborated by exterior driveway coverage and airline records supplied by the witness. The dining room camera recorded six consecutive days of stillness: the chairs pushed in, the table bare, the sheer curtains untouched by any interior movement. At 02:11 on 2026-08-25, forty-three hours into the vacancy, the archway motion channel registers a brief luminance shift consistent with a light source passing through the kitchen beyond the frame. Nothing enters the dining room. At 02:11 on 2026-08-26, the same shift repeats to the second. On 2026-08-27 and 2026-08-28 the event does not recur on the interior feed, though the rear-yard camera logs, at 02:11 each night, a hunched silhouette at the tree line holding what appears to be a shoulder-mounted recording device angled toward the house. The figure does not approach. The figure's face is not resolved in any frame we hold. The place setting seen in the recovered clip — plate, half-filled glass, folded napkin, chair drawn out and turned — is not present in any prior segment. It appears fully assembled in the first frame following the 20:02–20:43 gap. No hand enters to arrange it. No chair is heard to move. The witness returned at 22:14, entered through the front door, and did not proceed past the archway. The caption submitted with the footage has been logged as evidentiary. The observation regarding the glass is consistent with our thermal review, which places the liquid at 4.2°C at time of recovery — a temperature the ambient room cannot account for over the recorded interval. Further findings, including the identity of the second household resident on file, are held at archive discretion.