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PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDTempestad en Bonanza and TVE Operación OVNIIn 1978 Spanish television put Benítez on camera with UFO witnesses; the catalogs do not confirm the sightings.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUKUSA: The 1946 Signals Intelligence AgreementThe 1946 UKUSA agreement formalized U.S.–UK SIGINT partnership into Five Eyes. NSA/GCHQ/NARA doors—not invented takes.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Mitrokhin ArchiveMitrokhin's notes sit at Cambridge: open typescripts, closed notebooks, ISC process paper.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSIran Air 655 and the USS Vincennes (3 July 1988)Vincennes destroyed Iran Air 655—290 dead. Fogarty investigated; ICJ settled. Shootdown is fact; intent stays edged.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Getty Kouros Forgery ControversyGetty Kouros: 1985 buy, dual authenticity label, 2018 Villa removal—prestige vs forgery limbo.
ALT HISTORYAngkor After LiDAR: The Hydraulic City ReassessedEvans lidar + UNESCO: greater Angkor as hydraulic urban complex—documented remote sensing, not temple-only mystique.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Manhattan Engineer District Secrecy RegimeMED hid the bomb by design. The 1946 Act made atomic data Restricted until someone affirmatively opened it.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSevso Treasure: Provenance Fights Without a Proven FindspotSevso Treasure: provenance litigation without a proven findspot—documented claims, not dealer folklore.
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.
CRYPTOZOOLOGYThe Flying Serpent of Dos Palmas (1882)A flying serpent over Dos Palmas in 1882? The whole case is one unsigned item in the Los Angeles Daily Times.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSatyam Computer Services FraudSatyam’s books showed cash and revenue that were not there. Raju confessed to keep the growth story.
HEALTH & MEDICINEDr. Mary's MonkeyEdward Haslam ties Mary Sherman's 1964 murder to a secret monkey-virus lab; police files and pathologists differ.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUSS Scorpion (SSN-589) Disappearance ControversiesCourt said certain cause unascertainable. Acoustic critics fight the explosion language. Soviet-attack stays contested.
Operation PaperclipPaperclip was to bar active Nazis, yet the JIOA asked for revised security reports so some scientists could still come.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Dreyfus Affair ForgeriesFrench military justice met a handwriting error with forgeries—until cassation broke the seal.
The Nayirah TestimonyA girl named only as Nayirah told a caucus of babies taken from incubators; she was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDIsdal WomanA burned unidentified woman in Isdalen, 1970. DNA narrowed Europe. Her name is still unknown.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Gulf of Tonkin IncidentHow much of the August 1964 Tonkin clash was fog, fear, or a story built to widen the war?
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGoldsboro Broken Arrow (24 January 1961)B-52 breakup near Goldsboro dropped two Mk 39s. Officials said safe. Sandia: one switch stopped catastrophe.