Preliminary Interview
The O.S.I.R.'s Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure agreements are introduced by the Case Manager and signed by all individuals who are participating in the investigation in any capacity. The documents grant O.S.I.R. supreme and omnipotent control over all individuals, entities and properties, and supercedes all private and local, national and international laws. These documents must be signed prior to commencing with any type of serious inquiry or investigation.

This phase typically involves all investigators. Upon arriving, personal interviews with experiencers, third party witnesses and any other individuals connected in any way with the phenomena are performed to determine the specifics of the situations, complaints and events and to determine the case objective. Like in all phases and assessments of the investigation, investigators take special attention to assess the cursory biochemical and psychological reactions and responses of the subjects or witnesses in giving clues about the authenticity of the events and situations being reported as the information is being conveyed to the investigators.

Standard interviewing process would begin with separating all subjects and witnesses of experiences into separate controlled environments, away from all distractions, and interviewing them individually by two or more of the investigators. These interviews may be repeated several times to properly assess the authenticity of statements.

If there is more than one subject or witness, depending on the situation, the psychodynamics and the number of subjects, the previous interviewing process will be repeated again, but this time allowing all the subjects to be part of the same interview and additionally allowing them to interact in conveying these experiences or encounter.

Circumstantial And On-Site Assessment
This phase typically involves all investigators. Personal interviews with experiencers, third party witnesses and any other individuals connected in any way with the phenomena are performed to determine the specifics of the situations, complaints and events and all relevant factors that may have contributed or been somehow affected by the reported claim or incident. As previously mentioned in the Preliminary Interview phase, like in all phases and assessments of the investigation, investigators take special attention to assessing the cursory biomechanical and psychophysiological reactions and responses of the subjects of witnesses in giving clues about the authenticity of the events and situations being reported as the information is being conveyed to the investigators. While it is standard to keep all video and audio recording devices in view of the interviewee, the various recording equipment can be appropriately concealed to facilitate requirements of the case, according to the needs of the Case Manager. In performing interviews and in collecting information from individuals outside the Official Case investigation security bubble, it is standard for investigators to utilize concealed surveillance audio/video technology to document the undercover interviews. It is usually during this phase that the investigators would determine the extent and dimension of the investigation in respect to which specific individuals would be introduced to the security and if so, to what extent. Investigators may need to go undercover from house to house or from town to town to collect information that could be pertinent to the complaint or situation being reported.

Standard interviewing process would begin with separating all subjects and witnesses of experiences into separate controlled environments, away from all distractions, and interviewing them individually by two or more of the investigators. These interviews may be repeated several times to properly assess the authenticity of statements.

If the situation meets with protocol requirements, the previous interviewing process is repeated, but this time the subject and/or witness is taken back to the specific location where the claimed event and any and all movements leading up to and after the event took place.

If there is more than one subject or witness, depending on the situation, the psychodynamics and the number of subjects, the previous two interviewing processes will be repeated again, but this time allowing all the subjects to be part of the same interview and additionally allowing them to interact in conveying their experience or encounter in the environment.

Investigators will perform a reenactment of events to determine the possible theories which could rationally explain the events and how certain minute circumstances can be misinterpreted by the witnesses or subjects under the same conditions originally experienced by them. Additionally, applying psychological and mechanical concepts in magic and illusion, the investigators will interpret the possible causes behind the claimed events, including the possibilities that the events are hoaxes. First, this phase will strategically plot the natural flow-of-events of the circumstances away from the actual site. Secondly, investigators will initiate this identical circumstantial plotting, but applying it to the actual environment while they are at the site. Every minute detail, from the time of day to the whereabouts of any low flying aircraft are taken into consideration.

Any and all documentation (audio, video, photographs, materials, etc.) is taken into consideration in this phase and properly logged for analysis. According to O.S.I.R. protocol, a single piece of evidence only has as much significance as the method in which it was documented and the percentage of overall documentation which has been collected. NO ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE HOLDS ANY SCIENTIFICALLY SIGNIFICANT WEIGHT ON THE INVESTIGATION.

Like with all phases of the investigation, in the Circumstantial Assessment, while the Case Manager and the Investigators may rule out the plausibility of a hoax, a calculated percentage of a hoax still being perpetrated is always suggested throughout the entire investigation, even after an explainable solution (be it paranormal or rational) has been found.