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SCIENCE & SPACEThree Mile Island Information ManagementKemeny's Public's Right Task Force shows TMI's public failure was information architecture—not a single cover-up slogan.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSCrystal Skulls: Tool Marks Behind the Ancient-Origin StoriesA quartz skull donated to the Smithsonian in 1992 set off an investigation into its supposed ancient origins.
ALT HISTORYThe Younger Dryas ImpactYounger Dryas impact papers blame a comet 12,800 years ago for megafauna die-offs and a sudden freeze.
PRISMLeaked slides tied NSA's PRISM to Google and Apple; officials said it was not undisclosed, and the firms denied knowing.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSociété Générale / Jérôme Kerviel Rogue TradingSocGen lost billions on unauthorized Kerviel positions. Courts convicted him and later shared civil fault..
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Hexagonal Storm of SaturnSaturn's hexagon looks like impossible geometry. Cassini tracked it, and a University of Oxford tank spun one up.
SURVEILLANCEHTLINGUALHTLINGUAL was the CIA mail-opening program that photographed Americans' letters for years.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBarry Jennings, Michael Hess, and the WTC 7 Explosion-Testimony ClusterTwo city officials described explosions inside WTC 7. NIST calls debris and fire. Both doors stay open.
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.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDProject Alpha: Magicians Inside a Psychic LaboratoryIn 1983, James Randi described how two magicians had secretly posed as psychic laboratory subjects.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSDamascus Titan II Accident (19 September 1980)Damascus Titan II: socket, silo blast, W-53 thrown clear. Officials said safe.
FINANCE & BANKINGWirecardThe cash in Wirecard’s published accounts was not in the banks the company had named.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBenin Bronzes Repatriation: 1897 Loot to 2022 Transfer Agreements1897 was a punitive sack, not a gift. Berlin and the Horniman transferred pieces in 2022. Not all are home.
SCIENCE & SPACERoswell Crash and Cover-UpRoswell's 1947 disc became a weather balloon, then secret Project Mogul in Air Force reports; crash claims persist.
OCEANThe Mariana Trench Anomalous SoundsAdherents hear machinery in the trench's metallic call. A 2024 NOAA-led study traced the Biotwang to Bryde's whales.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMordechai Vanunu / Dimona RevelationsDimona visits missed the underground plant. Vanunu’s photos put it in public view. Amimut held.
The Pais PatentsNavy patents describe an inertial-mass craft; the filings and a spin test do not say that such a craft flew.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLab Leak vs "Proximal Origin": The February 2020 Call TrailFebruary 2020 calls and emails precede Nature Medicine's Proximal Origin paper. Document the trail..
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.
ESPIONAGED-21 Tagboard and Senior BowlTagboard killed its M-21 mothership in 1966; Senior Bowl’s China shots never delivered usable Lop Nor film.