Aperture originals are gone, can I re-create them from referenced images?

I have several photos in aperture with the icon indicating that they are referenced files for which the originals can't be located, and I would like tore-create originals from the thumbnails. All I've been able to find are instructions telling me to reconnect the hard drive containing the original images, or otherwise locate them. But I have no such hard drive. The images with these icons seem to be random; I'll have a project with several hundred photos, and a dozen or two have this icon for no apparent reason. There is no other hard drive to connect or anyplace else to look. Skipping over how that might have happened, I just want to be able to re-create originals from the thumbnails I have (which are actually high enough quality). Is this possible?

All I've been able to find are instructions telling me to reconnect the hard drive containing the original images, or otherwise locate them. But I have no such hard drive.
Is your Aperture library referenced? Where are you storing the originals of your images? In the Aperture library or in a folder outside the library? You can only reconnect images that have been imported as referenced, not managed image files.
First thing to do, save the previews. Create a folder on the Desktop and drag the thumbnails of the images in question to that folder. That will save a jpeg of the preview to that folder.
The images with these icons seem to be random; I'll have a project with several hundred photos, and a dozen or two have this icon for no apparent reason.
Select one of the images in that event, that do not show this problem and use the command "File > Show in Finder". If your image files are referenced, this will open the folder with the originals for that project and you can check, if the originals are still there. If not, your image files are not referenced, and there is no possibility in Aperture to reconnect the original files.
Can you see the originals in the Finder?

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