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PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDSomerton Man / Tamám ShudSomerton Man died on an Adelaide beach in 1948. Police exhumed him in 2021. The coroner has not closed the name.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBAE Al-Yamamah and the SFO HaltSFO halted Al-Yamamah for security; Lords upheld it; OECD called the halt a Convention crisis.
Acoustic Cyber-EspionagePapers recover keys, printouts, and an RSA key from sound, and name no secret successor.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSB-2 Spirit / Advanced Technology Bomber: Senior Ice vs Senior PegOn 20 October 1981 Senior Ice beat Senior Peg inside a black ATB contest—GAO later scored the flying wing.
ALT HISTORYRongorongo: Easter Island's Undeciphered ScriptHevesy tied rongorongo to the Indus script in 1932. Ferrara's 2024 wood dates point to an island invention instead.
ESPIONAGEProject AzorianUnder Hughes cover, the Glomar Explorer tried to lift a sunken Soviet sub for the CIA's Azorian brief.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAble Archer 83 and the Soviet War ScareAble Archer 83 is documented; the 1990 PFIAB and the 1984 SNIE still disagree on how close the scare came.
FINANCE & BANKINGThe Panama PapersThe 2016 Panama Papers dump from Mossack Fonseca mapped offshore shells the powerful preferred to keep nameless.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Apollo Moon Landings: A Critical ExaminationDistrust says the Apollo landings were staged; agency reports answer some charges and leave others open.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRocky Flats: FBI Raid and Grand Jury SecrecyRockwell was paid an award fee for environmental control. The 6 June 1989 raid said the plant was not under it.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYTheranosTheranos promised blood tests from a finger prick. WSJ reporting and Holmes's trial turned the pitch into fraud.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAnniston PCBs and MonsantoAnniston's Monsanto PCB plant left a Superfund Alternative file DOJ still forced open.
The Tower of Babel and the Enmerkar TabletIs a Sumerian spell an older Tower of Babel? Translators split on whether it looks back or forward.
SURVEILLANCEXKEYSCORE Public SlidesTraining slides went public in 2013. NSA answered on-record. PCLOB later published redacted oversight. Stick to those.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSParthenon Sculptures / Elgin Marbles: The Legal-Diplomatic TrailBritain calls the removal lawful by firman and the 1816 purchase. Greece calls it a taking from the building.
Operation NorthwoodsIn 1962 the Joint Chiefs proposed staged attacks as a pretext to invade Cuba; the memo stayed secret until 1997.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKarahan TepeHancock's circle sees lost knowledge in Karahan Tepe's serpent head. Karul's dig reads a Neolithic ritual burial.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSEdgar Maddison Welch and the 4 December 2016 Comet ShootingHe believed a trafficking ring was inside Comet. The plea he signed says it was not, and it records the shots.
ESPIONAGEProject Genetrix: Balloon Reconnaissance over the Bloc (1956)Genetrix lofted camera balloons in early 1956—FRUS records the Soviet protest and Eisenhower’s kill.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSEvent 201: The October 2019 Pandemic TabletopEvent 201 was a real Oct 2019 coronavirus tabletop. “They planned COVID” stays a reading.