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The Pais PatentsNavy patents describe an inertial-mass craft; the filings and a spin test do not say that such a craft flew.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSHalliburton / KBR Nigeria Bonny Island FCPAKBR pleaded guilty to Bonny Island FCPA bribery in 2009. The docket is Nigeria LNG—not an Iraq meme.
ALT HISTORYAbydos “Helicopter” Hieroglyphs: Palimpsest, Not AircraftAbydos Seti I panel: plaster loss → helicopter lookalike. Epigraphy says palimpsest—not paleocontact fact.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSZambia's 2020 Gassing Crisis: Attacks, Mob Violence and Hidden-Hand ClaimsZambia's 2020 gassing crisis fed claims of a hidden campaign; reported attacks did not identify its supposed sponsors.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Lydian Hoard: Met–Turkey Repatriation (1993)Treated as a legitimate purchase, the Lydian tomb goods came from looted Uşak tumuli and returned to Turkey in 1993.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThe Willowbrook Hepatitis ExperimentsAt Willowbrook, researchers deliberately gave institutionalized children hepatitis in the name of vaccine work.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Zircon Affair: GCHQ's Secret Satellite vs ParliamentBBC killed a Zircon spy-satellite film. Injunctions and Official Secrets raids followed. Parliament fought the gag.
ESPIONAGEOperation Gold (Berlin Tunnel)CIA and MI6 tapped Berlin landlines. Blake told the KGB first. CIA still calls much of the take genuine.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAldrich AmesAmes's plea and DoJ OIG summary document nine years of espionage and CIA–FBI coordination failure.
ESPIONAGEProject ARTICHOKEARTICHOKE was a secret CIA drug and hypnosis interrogation program, hidden behind medical cover and Top Secret files.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSQAnonPosts called Q drops, and a coming disclosure, are a claim; court, platform, and House records have not made them fact.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDUmmo Letters as Social and Documentary PhenomenonUmmo letters claim a non-human origin; later letters claim a human author, and recipients do not agree.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLooking 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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMiami Herald "Perversion of Justice" and the 2018 Reopening CascadeA 2018 Miami Herald series reopened Epstein’s sealed Florida deal. Court and SDNY doors followed.
ESPIONAGEKosmos 954: Nuclear Spy Satellite Crash Over CanadaKosmos 954 fell over Canada on 24 Jan 1978. Moscow lagged. Morning Light found radioactive debris. No invented toll.
HISTORICAL EVENTSAnyang Oracle Bones and the Shang ScriptAnyang oracle bones + Yinxu WH—documented Shang script; mature Chinese writing, not mysticism.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTeam B Competitive Analysis (1976)Team B’s 1976 competitive estimate challenged NIE soft readings—SSCI later audited the design.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWindscale Fire (10 October 1957)White Paper in weeks; full Penney Report sealed until TNA opened AB 86/25 in January 1988.
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.