LOCATOR 628-M-42R

LOCATOR 628-M-42R

Air date	January 20, 2026
Writer	Kris Straub
Director	Kris Straub

LOCATOR 628-M-42R (stylized as ＬＯＣＡＴＯＲ ６２８－Ｍ－４２Ｒ) is a short vertical video uploaded onto LOCAL58TV's accounts on YouTube and Instagram.

Synopsis

Opening on a new logo for the U.S. Department for the Preservation of American Dignity, the 2000's era Local 58 station I.D. flashes abruptly before the video cuts to handheld camcorder footage that pans down from the moon onto a barren field. The cameraman slowly walks around before another video cut is brought on with a quick flash of red and an emergency alert sound effect like the ones heard in Weather Service.

The out-of-focus camera then shows the cryptid Chiron wandering around the field as though he is searching for something. The cameraman captures a flash picture of Chiron just as Chiron spots him, leading the cameraman to turn around and flee suddenly before the Local 58 station I.D. is shown again, proceeded by a close-up image of the moon.

Trivia

• This marks Chiron's first appearance in a Local 58 video, although he had been teased in merchandise and social media posts as early as 2020.
• The unusual title of this video shares its file naming conventions with the two images that make up the Local 58 Archives.
• This video contains the third overall logo that we've seen thus far for USDPAD, with the first originating in Contingency and the second coming from a physical zine of a T. Galbraith book that Kris Straub gave out at PAX West in 2025.
• This marks the second time Chiron has been linked to USDPAD, as the department's Contingency-era logo appeared in one of the television screens on his body in an artwork Kris Straub had posted of him in 2020 on Patreon.

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  Clearer render of Chiron as seen on Kris Straub's Instagram account.