Cross-Cultural Star-Being Audit (Jun 3 2026) — do ancient 'sky-teacher' traditions prove NHI contact? Twelve traditions run twice through the Apex Discrimination Criterion with independent verifiers

CROWD CLAIM: ancient tribes and texts (Dogon/Sirius-B, Anunnaki, vimanas, Quetzalcoatl, etc.) prove humanity was visited — the typology predates sci-fi, so it must be real contact. ENGINE ASSESSMENT (two independent passes, no shared sources): the cross-cultural MOTIF is real and genuinely pre-fiction, but 0 of 12 traditions carry an un-fakeable signature (verifiable couldn't-have-known information / non-terrestrial material / non-local effect) -> none clears the Apex Discrimination Criterion. Eight are degenerate-contaminated (contact reading traces to a documented modern overlay: Sitchin -> Sumerian/Enochic; von Däniken -> Vedic/Quetzalcoatl/Wandjina/Viracocha; New Age -> Hopi/Lakota; colonial back-formation -> Quetzalcoatl/Viracocha); Yoruba/Polynesian/Fuxi-Nuwa are motif-only; Dogon (the strongest) fails on van Beek 1991 + pre-1931 public Sirius-B + Griaule's astronomy training. STRUCTURAL: the 'twelve independent witnesses converging' is itself largely a Sci-Fi-Feedback-Loop artifact — a few modern authors reading one template into many cultures (the loop operating on the interpreter). One refinement: the Lakota figure has a genuine pre-New-Age sky-deity strand (Woȟpe, Walker 1914) but no astronomical datum and not the Pleiades/ET origin claimed. Surfaces: concept 'Apex Discrimination Criterion' (worked example), divergence 'Sci-Fi Feedback Loop' (deep-time layer widened), divergence 'Alt-History Fault Line #5' (Anunnaki evidence strengthened), node 'watchers_nephilim_framework' (verdict). Apex held; Layer-2 calibration, no Layer-1 promotion; engine names no holder and asserts no absence.