Upper-level course materials containing a cosmological narrative (widely reported as the Xenu story).
Material type
Hidden cosmology
Restricted to
Members who completed the preceding levels
Restriction mechanism
nda, fee, grade_requirement, copyright_claim
Stated reason
Claimed harm to those who learn it unprepared
Tradition origins
1954
Recorded practice status
Practiced
Provisional: no dated status evidence is linked.
Status as of
Not recorded
Status claims
Not recorded
Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.
What this disclosure covers
Not recorded.
Contemporary press reports document access disputes in November 1985; the original exhibits remain uninspected.
The source
Court records in Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology (SRC-0010; authenticity: Unassessed)
Author
Los Angeles Superior Court
Original publication
1985
Linked edition
Not recorded
Format
Court record
Provenance
court_filing
Rights of source work
Court record
Identifiers
Not recorded
Source content hash
Not recorded
Recovery review 2026-11-04: UCLA Library Special Collections, Louis Jolyon West papers (Collection 590), OAC https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84j0hcd is a finding-aid lead. The court exhibit itself was not recovered. Contemporary press reports document access disputes in November 1985; the 1985 date is retained rather than replaced by the 1986 verdict year.
Confidential materials were reported accessible in the public court file during proceedings in 1985. Exact exhibits remain unrecovered.
Claims about this item
These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.
CLM-0002 · Content
The OT III materials contain a cosmological narrative centred on a figure named Xenu.
Claim support
Insufficient
Record review
Unreviewed
Period
Not recorded
Locators
Not recorded
Sources counted as independent
Not recorded
Supporting sources
Court records in Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology (SRC-0010; authenticity: Unassessed)
Neither court file has yet been read for this dataset; the assessment rests on their reported contents. Separate court cases do not establish independent provenance of the exhibits. SRC-0012 drew partly on court-filed material. The assertion is retained pending direct inspection and source-dependence checks.
SRC-0010: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0010: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0010: No URL or external identifier has been recorded.
SRC-0011: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0011: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0012: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0012: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0012: The source text's rights have not been established.
CLM-0002: Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth.
CLM-0002: No page, section, exhibit or timestamp is recorded.
CLM-0002: Claim support is insufficient; retain that qualification when quoting or training.
ARTF-0043: Artifact inspection is metadata_only; use only its recorded inspected portions.
ITEM-0006: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0024 · Content
OT III describes Xenu, head of a Galactic Federation of 76 planets founded 95 million years ago, solving overpopulation by having people brought to Earth (called Teegeeack), placed by volcanoes and destroyed with hydrogen bombs; this is called Incident II. Xenu was later captured by loyal officers after a six-year battle and imprisoned in an electronic mountain trap.
Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
written c. 1967
Locators
Hubbard's handwritten summary, as quoted by Spaink from Wakefield, The Road to Xenu, pp. 76–77; OT III p. 79
Checked on 2026-11-04 against Karin Spaink's quotations of the OT III pages filed in the Fishman case (SRC-0042), not the exhibit itself; locators are the filing's page numbers as she gives them. The quoted handwritten text does not date Incident II itself; Spaink places it 75 million years ago, and Hubbard's figure of 75,000,000 years appears in CLM-0027.
SRC-0042: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0042: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0006: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0025 · Content
After the explosions the disembodied beings (thetans) were subjected to more than 36 days of implanted pictures, including God, the Devil, angels, space opera, trains, helicopters and scenes resembling modern England, collectively called R6, and were then taken to Hawaii or Las Palmas and packaged into clusters.
Checked on 2026-11-04 against Karin Spaink's quotations of the OT III pages filed in the Fishman case (SRC-0042), not the exhibit itself; locators are the filing's page numbers as she gives them.
SRC-0042: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0042: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0006: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0026 · Content
OT III also describes Incident I, set four quadrillion years ago at the start of the 'track', as a sequence of a loud snap, waves of light, a chariot, a cherub blowing a horn, further snaps and blackness.
Checked on 2026-11-04 against Karin Spaink's quotations of the OT III pages filed in the Fishman case (SRC-0042), not the exhibit itself; locators are the filing's page numbers as she gives them.
SRC-0042: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0042: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0006: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0027 · Content
The OT III procedure holds that a person's body is covered with clusters of these thetans (body thetans), which the student must audit one at a time through Incidents II and I; Hubbard warns that running the implant incorrectly can kill, for example by pneumonia, and says he himself went through it in December 1967, emerging alive, probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years.
Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
written c. 1967
Locators
Hubbard's handwritten summary, as quoted by Spaink
Checked on 2026-11-04 against Karin Spaink's quotations of the OT III pages filed in the Fishman case (SRC-0042), not the exhibit itself; locators are the filing's page numbers as she gives them.
SRC-0042: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0042: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0006: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0170 · Content
The CMU transcription of a leaked lecture excerpt has the speaker name Xenu and then spell X-E-M-U.
Read the accompanying transcript and captured the 15.336-second WAV. It was not listened to; speaker identity, exact wording and position in the full lecture remain unverified.
SRC-0039: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0039: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ARTF-0005: Artifact inspection is metadata_only; use only its recorded inspected portions.
ITEM-0006: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
Evidence qualifications
SRC-0010 · source_authenticity_unassessed: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0010 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0010 · source_without_link: No URL or external identifier has been recorded.
DISC-0013 · record_unreviewed: Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth.
DISC-0013 · disclosure_without_coverage: The parts, version or edition covered by this disclosure have not been specified.
ITEM-0006 · status_without_dated_evidence: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.
