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The Hobbits of Flores IslandThe Liang Bua bones were called a modern human with microcephaly, against the species claim.
ESPIONAGED-21 Tagboard and Senior BowlTagboard killed its M-21 mothership in 1966; Senior Bowl’s China shots never delivered usable Lop Nor film.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Walker Spy Ring and the Navy Crypto CollapseWalker’s ring sold Navy crypto keying to Moscow for years. Pelton sold Ivy Bells—sibling wound, not the same sale.
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.
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.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSGunung PadangNatawidjaja and Hancock call the Gunung Padang retraction suppression. The journal says the dated soil was not man-made.
HISTORICAL EVENTSEbla Tablets: Discovery, Archives, and the Biblical ControversiesEbla’s tablets are real. Pettinato’s Sodom and Abraham claims were made, then challenged.
ALT HISTORYThe Sumerian King ListThe Sumerian King List gives antediluvian rulers reigns of tens of thousands of years. Adherents take it literally.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation MincemeatIn 1943 Britain floated a corpse with fake invasion plans. Operation Mincemeat worked better than fiction.
ALT HISTORYShinichi Fujimura and the Japanese Paleolithic Planting Scandal5 Nov 2000 cameras caught Fujimura planting Paleolithic finds—textbook invalidation, facts only.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWoburn Wells G & H / Anderson LitigationWoburn Wells G & H shut on TCE/PCE. Courts and epidemiology never fully locked step.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Wow! Signal~72s Big Ear burst (15 Aug 1977): beacon reading vs natural hydrogen noise—dual-refuse; no sneer.
ESPIONAGEOperation Midnight ClimaxClippings name Operation Midnight Climax; the 1977 hearing prints the safe-house file, and Turner calls it past.
ALT HISTORYDinosaurs Are Not RealOne anatomist coined the word in 1842, sculptors built the beasts in brick, and museum giants are often fiberglass.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSEpstein Flight Logs and the "Lolita Express"The logs list aircraft, routes, and names. A line is a travel entry, not a finding that the passenger was a client.
Operation Snow WhiteScientology agents in federal offices stole files; after two were caught in 1976, the plan was to deny any church tie.
HEALTH & MEDICINEGuatemala Syphilis ExperimentsFrom 1946 to 1948, U.S. researchers deliberately infected Guatemalans with STDs. A commission later said so.
ESPIONAGEWho Gets the Pieces: The 1962–1964 Space Fragment PapersBelievers say space-fragment rules hid a recovery program; the 1962–64 papers show agencies fighting over the debris.
BIOLOGYNon-Coding DNA and the Biomessage HypothesisAdherents say junk DNA hides an alien message; biologists still fight over how much of the genome has any function.
ESPIONAGERHYOLITE / AQUACADE: Geosynchronous Missile-Telemetry SpiesCIA flew geosynchronous SIGINT as RHYOLITE, then AQUACADE. FOIA says the birds existed—not what every intercept said.