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RELIGIONUrantia Plagiarism Controversy Around Caballo de TroyaThe fight is whether Caballo de Troya copies the Urantia Book, or only draws on it.
ESPIONAGEEpstein Intelligence-Tie Narratives Adherents CiteJournalism says Acosta heard “intelligence.” DOJ paper charges trafficking and finds poor judgment
ESPIONAGEThe Cambridge FiveBurgess/Maclean fled; Blunt confessed under immunity; Thatcher named him in 1979—Venona had bitten.
ESPIONAGEOperation Holystone: Submarine Spy Missions in Soviet WatersU.S. attack subs ran Holystone in Soviet waters. Hersh named it in 1975; Ford lawyers debated confirmation risk.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAbydos “Helicopter” Hieroglyphs: Palimpsest, Not AircraftAbydos Seti I panel: plaster loss → helicopter lookalike. Epigraphy says palimpsest—not paleocontact fact.
FINANCE & BANKINGBre-X Minerals Busang FraudBusang sold as world-class gold. Freeport's 8-K carried Strathcona salting. OSC charged Felderhof—and lost.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSEbla Tablets: Discovery, Archives, and the Biblical ControversiesEbla’s tablets are real. Pettinato’s Sodom and Abraham claims were made, then challenged.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYExxon Climate Research and DenialExxon's scientists warned bosses in 1977 that fossil fuels would warm the planet, then Exxon sold the public doubt.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation MincemeatIn 1943 Britain floated a corpse with fake invasion plans. Operation Mincemeat worked better than fiction.
HISTORICAL EVENTSNORAD False Alarms of 1979–1980NORAD warning computers lied in 1979 and 1980. Conferences and sensors stood the forces down—not a lone-hero caption.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Bedford Level Experiment and Its Flat-Earth AfterlivesOld Bedford canal sightings are still read two ways: as a measured curve, and as evidence the earth is flat.
SCIENCE & SPACERoswell Crash and Cover-UpRoswell's 1947 disc became a weather balloon, then secret Project Mogul in Air Force reports; crash claims persist.
SCIENCE & SPACETimes Beach Dioxin EvacuationTimes Beach roads got dioxin waste oil. After the flood, CDC advice emptied the town.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Face on Mars and Viking ImagingViking 035A72 looked like a face. NASA’s 1976 caption called shadows. MGS and HiRISE returned a mesa.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Pentagon PapersEllsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers and showed successive administrations had lied about Vietnam for years.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Mysterious Out-of-Place Metal Tubes of Mount BaigongAdherents point to Baigong's metal pipes in Qinghai rock as out-of-place tech, not natural iron stains.
SCIENCE & SPACEProject West Ford: Copper Needles in OrbitLincoln Lab lofted copper dipoles to bounce X-band. The belt worked briefly; NASA still tracks the clumps.
HISTORICAL EVENTSLooking Glass: SAC's Airborne Nuclear Command PostSAC kept a nuclear command post airborne for 29 years. Looking Glass mirrored Offutt—then handed off to Navy E-6Bs.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSSubterranean basalt megastructures of Nan Madol in the Pacific OceanNan Madol stacks roughly 750,000 tons of basalt on artificial islets. How the builders moved it still stuns.
SCIENCE & SPACEChallenger Crew: The SurvivorsPosts say the Challenger crew lived on; NASA's record says the seven died.