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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe EC-121 Shootdown (15 April 1969)15 Apr 1969: MiGs down Deep Sea 129; 31 dead. Hard public account of loss and tracks lagged—now NSA/FRUS L1.
PLANETARY ANOMALIES3I ATLASAbraham Loeb and coauthors asked if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is alien technology; telescopes measure a comet.
ESPIONAGEActive MeasuresActive measures meant forgeries and influence desks—not every bad headline. FRUS and CSI kept the receipts.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKhafre SAR ProjectBiondi and Malanga say radar shows shafts 648 m under Khafre. Hawass denies it; their 2022 method paper is retracted.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTyco International / Dennis KozlowskiSEC civil fraud plus New York grand-larceny convictions—affirmed on appeal, then SEC bars. Lifestyle memes ≠ verdict.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSutton Hoo: Ship Burial, Treasure Law, and the 1939 DigIn 1939 a jury ruled Sutton Hoo a funeral, not treasure trove. Pretty owned it and gave it away.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBoeing Bird of Prey: The 1990s Stealth DemonstratorPhantom Works kept Bird of Prey black from 1992–1999, then donated it in 2002 once the tricks were standard.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSNugan Hand BankNugan Hand collapsed in 1980. Stewart’s Royal Commission mapped the wreckage—not a sealed finding that CIA ran the bank.
ALT HISTORYModern Flat Earth: From Zetetic Astronomy to the YouTube RevivalZetetic astronomy told readers not to trust a theory they had not tested, and the video revival has not ended the fight.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Acosta Non-Prosecution Agreement (2007–2008)The 2007 SDFL non-prosecution agreement, CVRA findings, and OPR review are on primary doors..
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS"Client List" Document Claims vs Contact Books and Flight LogsFlight logs and books are real exhibits. DOJ said no incriminating client list. Contested/L2 refuses adjacency-as-guilt.
ALT HISTORYPoverty Point and the Denial of Indigenous MonumentalismA lost-race story said Indigenous people did not build these mounds. The site record says they did.
ESPIONAGEProject ARTICHOKEARTICHOKE was a secret CIA drug and hypnosis interrogation program, hidden behind medical cover and Top Secret files.
SURVEILLANCENSA Trailblazer and ThinThreadTrailblazer was carried as the future; oversight later called it a failure; ThinThread privacy was not built.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMichael Milken / Drexel Burnham Junk-Bond ScandalDrexel pleaded; Milken pleaded to six felonies. Contested clearance keeps court verbs—and blocks afterlife sermons.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAldrich AmesAmes's plea and DoJ OIG summary document nine years of espionage and CIA–FBI coordination failure.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDChaco Canyon Roads and Archaeoastronomy DebatesChaco roads documented NPS engineering; archaeoastronomy overclaims stay contested at L1—not alien surveyors.
ESPIONAGESOSUS: The Cold War Undersea Sound Surveillance GridSOSUS listened for Soviet subs under an oceanography cover. The mission stayed classified until 1991.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSFlint Water CrisisFlint switched water sources in 2014. Lead followed. State and EPA timelines still look like a cover delay.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Family Jewels: CIA's 1973 Self-Inventory of IllegalitiesThe CIA ordered a list of what might fall outside its charter, and the public did not get that list in 1973.