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SCIENCE & SPACEProject Orion Nuclear Pulse ConceptsOrion was a real nuclear-pulse study. PTBT and the Outer Space Treaty killed the test path—not a hidden fleet.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDBenítez vs the Anomalía School: Competing Spanish UFO EpistemologiesBenítez calls Spain's Air Force UFO release a fraud; Anomalía researchers call the same files a rational reading.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Popeye Weather ModificationPopeye seeded Indochina clouds in secret. Senate 1974 forced the sortie paper out.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSDanske Bank Estonia Money LaunderingBruun & Hjejle, Danish FSA, and DOJ show group knowledge and a delayed stop—not a Tallinn surprise.
HISTORICAL EVENTSSerpent Mound Dating Wars: Adena vs Fort AncientAdena vs Fort Ancient 14C fights at Serpent Mound. Contested dating—no hollow-earth.
HISTORICAL EVENTSGoldsboro Broken Arrow (24 January 1961)B-52 breakup near Goldsboro dropped two Mk 39s. Officials said safe. Sandia: one switch stopped catastrophe.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAncient Builder RaceA builder race on Mars, Iapetus and beyond, or a run of hard-to-read pictures? Later missions imaged every site.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMapungubwe: Gold Burials vs Colonial Denial HistoriographyMapungubwe UNESCO List 1099 gold burials—documented Limpopo kingdom vs colonial denial historiography.
AVIATIONRQ-170 Sentinel Capture in Iran (December 2011)Iran displayed a stealth drone. ISAF said a U.S. recon UAV was missing. Obama asked it back. Mechanism stays claimed.
The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann named the mound Troy. Which layer is Homer's city, Troy II or a later one, stays unsettled.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKoh Ker / Cambodian Statue Repatriations from U.S. MuseumsKoh Ker ICE/SDNY/Met repatriations—documented provenance care, not blanket “all Khmer art stolen” smear.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWatson Brake: Middle Archaic Mounds Before Poverty PointSaunders Science Middle Archaic mounds before Poverty Point—documented Indigenous labor, not civilization-rank folklore.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSQumran Settlement Archaeology: Beyond the Scrolls Publication Fightde Vaux dig + Magness synthesis: Qumran settlement archaeology—not the DSS publication fight.
RELIGIONUrantia Plagiarism Controversy Around Caballo de TroyaThe fight is whether Caballo de Troya copies the Urantia Book, or only draws on it.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESDag Hammarskjöld Crash InquiriesNdola 1961 killed Hammarskjöld. UN inquiries since 2015 still call external attack plausible—not proven.
ESPIONAGEProject AzorianUnder Hughes cover, the Glomar Explorer tried to lift a sunken Soviet sub for the CIA's Azorian brief.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAksum Obelisk: Rome, UNESCO, and the 2005 ReturnAksum Obelisk: Rome spoil → UNESCO/Italy–Ethiopia 2005 return—documented restitution, not Ark folklore.
ESPIONAGERHYOLITE / AQUACADE: Geosynchronous Missile-Telemetry SpiesCIA flew geosynchronous SIGINT as RHYOLITE, then AQUACADE. FOIA says the birds existed—not what every intercept said.
ALT HISTORYNok Culture Terracottas: Goethe University Chronology ResetGoethe/DFG Nok work resets terracotta chronology with archaeobotany—not colonial mystery-clay myths.
ESPIONAGEOperation CondorIn the 1970s Southern Cone dictatorships built Operation Condor as a cross-border kill-and-kidnap net.