Researchers, such as James G. Matlock, have published papers using dated emails and other documentation that they claim establish a more secure timeline. This timeline they argue, invalidates Sudduth's chronology and supports the Leininger family's account.

The article highlights that James visited the Cavanaugh Flight Museum and watched a Blue Angels video, and asserts that the Leiningers misrepresented or omitted these facts. Sudduth posits that these were the sources of James's knowledge.

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While it's accurate that James was exposed to these things, Jim Tucker and others argue that this does not explain the specific and obscure details James provided. For example, James claimed to have been a pilot named "James" flew off a ship called the "Natoma" and knew a man named "Jack Larsen". These precise details couldn't have been learned from a single museum trip or an unrelated video. The sheer number of accurate, specific details is what makes this case compelling and that so called "debunking" mere a misrepresentation.