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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.
ESPIONAGEOperation CHAOSOperation CHAOS put the CIA on domestic antiwar groups. Rockefeller and Church panels later mapped it.
The Poisoned Alcohol of ProhibitionFederal rules put wood alcohol in industrial alcohol; Norris blamed the government for deaths; others blamed drinkers.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLehman Brothers Repo 105Valukas: Repo 105 dressed the balance sheet at quarter-end—an accounting disguise, not a footnote.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSeveso Dioxin Disaster (10 July 1976)On 10 July 1976 an ICMESA runaway dumped TCDD over Seveso and remade EU accident law.
SECRET SPACE PROGRAMArea 51: The Documented BaseCIA's own U-2 history finally named Groom Lake. Area 51 was a flight-test base long before UFO lore.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESOumuamua (The Scout)Oumuamua arrived in 2017 as an interstellar oddball. Some still call it a scout, not a rock.
FANDOM AND CELEBRITIESTupac Survival Claims: Sightings, Fabrications and the RecordTupac survival stories collect striking appearances without establishing a surviving person.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUBS 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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSConstant Peg: Secret MiGs at TonopahRed Eagles flew real MiGs at Tonopah 1977–1988—USAF declass renamed the desert folklore vacuum.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGuantanamo Camp Delta LogsDoD denied Camp Delta SOPs in FOIA; WikiLeaks published them; SOUTHCOM called the 2004 manual valid.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTimbuktu Manuscripts: 2012–13 Smuggling Rescue and UNESCO Damage CountsTimbuktu manuscripts: UNESCO damage counts and SAVAMA rescue—documented survival, not total-loss myth.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSYonaguni MonumentKimura artificiality vs Schoch jointed sandstone. Contested—not sunken-city-as-fact.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDCanary Islands UFO Expedientes (1976 and 1979)The 1976 file says the lights are unidentified; a 1979 note says missiles; neither identifies a craft.
ESPIONAGEThe U-2 Incident (1960)On May Day 1960 a U-2 fell over the USSR. Eisenhower's weather-plane story lasted until Moscow showed the pilot.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPriam’s Treasure: Schliemann, Berlin, and the Pushkin TrailSchliemann's Priam label is his claim. Berlin calls the gold its property; Moscow does not treat it as loot to return.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Dutch East Indies Resource WarsNationaal Archief + NIOD put oil, rubber, and plantation ledgers beside the rifle—Aceh through 1949.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Ħal Saflieni HypogeumThe oracle hole that heals or kills is a popular claim. Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic cemetery, not a sound weapon.
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.