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ESPIONAGERudolf Abel / Hollow Nickel CaseA hollow nickel and Hayhanen’s break led to Abel’s conviction—affirmed in 362 U.S. 217.
HISTORICAL EVENTSʿAin Ghazal Plaster Statues: Neolithic Figures from JordanʿAin Ghazal PPNB plaster statues—Smithsonian/Jordan doors; documented Neolithic figures, not giants.
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.
HISTORICAL EVENTSStanislav Petrov and the 1983 Oko False AlarmOko lied on 26 September 1983. Petrov judged false alarm inside a war-scare file—not a one-man apocalypse veto.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Watchers: 200 Fallen Angels Among UsAdherents say the 200 Watchers of 1 Enoch 6 still act among us; the ancient texts tell their descent before the Flood.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDPlaneta Encantado Mirlo Rojo CGI ScandalMirlo Rojo aired lunar images as proof; a critic names CGI work, and Benítez defends Imágenes inéditas.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe 300-Ton Stones of BaalbekBaalbek's foundation blocks weigh hundreds of tons. Adherents ask how Roman cranes alone could have set them.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Piri Reis Map1513 Topkapı portolan is MoW heritage. Ice-free Antarctica/Atlantis captions stay contested.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYVioxx WithdrawalMerck called Vioxx safe and blamed the comparison drug for heart attacks, until its own trial ended sales in 2004.
ESPIONAGEVENONAVENONA decrypted 1940s Soviet intel cables and quietly confirmed spy names the public only learned later.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGhislaine Maxwell Trial Evidence Adherents CiteMaxwell's SDNY conviction rests on a checkable exhibit spine. Archive stays on docket—not viral lists.
HISTORICAL EVENTSLalibela Rock-Hewn Churches: Stratigraphy of a Sacred LandscapeLalibela rock-hewn churches: UNESCO List 18 + multi-phase stratigraphy—not Templar folklore.
FINANCE & BANKINGSteinhoff International Accounting ScandalSteinhoff's published numbers denied the hole. The doors show irregularities, not one global criminal verdict.
SCIENCE & SPACEModern Flat Earth: From Zetetic Astronomy to the YouTube RevivalZetetic astronomy told readers not to trust a theory they had not tested, and the video revival has not ended the fight.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYHealthSouth Accounting FraudHealthSouth’s books were fiction—CFO pleas and SEC paper say so. Scrushy’s criminal acquittal did not erase the fraud.
ESPIONAGEStuxnetNo government has admitted building Stuxnet, but the code itself shows it was made to wreck Iran's uranium centrifuges.
SCIENCE & SPACETabby's Star DimmingKepler saw Tabby’s Star dim by ~20%. A megastructure is a reading, not the measurement.
FINANCE & BANKINGUBS Cross-Border Tax Evasion DPA (2009)UBS paid $780M under a 2009 deferred prosecution—Statement of Facts, not a jury conviction and not an exoneration.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWadi el-Hol: Early Alphabet Inscriptions in Egypt’s Western DesertDarnell desert-road survey: early alphabetic graffiti at Wadi el-Hol—documented epigraphy.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMicro-Technology of the Ural MountainsUral miners report tiny coiled springs buried tens of feet down in Ice Age sediment. Adherents call them tech.