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Live log of amendments, new files, and evidence entering the archive
ALT SCIENCEThe Bedford Level Experiment and Its Flat-Earth AfterlivesOld Bedford canal sightings are still read two ways: as a measured curve, and as evidence the earth is flat.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRosetta Stone: Decipherment Engine and Repatriation DebateBritain’s title claim is the 1801 treaty. Reading the stone is not a return order.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSChromosome 2 FusionGenome papers read human chromosome 2 as a fusion of two ape chromosomes; creationist researchers dispute that reading.
ALT HISTORYSeahenge (Holme I): The Timber Circle Exposed by the TideSeahenge was lifted from the tide to save the wood, not left to the sea. What the circle was for is still not settled.
SURVEILLANCEThe AT&T Hemisphere ProgramHemisphere let agencies search AT&T call records on admin subpoenas. OIG and Senate ask if that fits the Constitution.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKarahan TepeHancock's circle sees lost knowledge in Karahan Tepe's serpent head. Karul's dig reads a Neolithic ritual burial.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSSubterranean basalt megastructures of Nan Madol in the Pacific OceanNan Madol stacks roughly 750,000 tons of basalt on artificial islets. How the builders moved it still stuns.
ESPIONAGED-21 Tagboard and Senior BowlTagboard killed its M-21 mothership in 1966; Senior Bowl’s China shots never delivered usable Lop Nor film.
ESPIONAGEThe Zinoviev LetterCAB 27/254 could not authenticate the 1924 letter; FCO historian Bennett's 1999 Note treats forgery as the best reading.
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.
Operation Snow WhiteScientology agents in federal offices stole files; after two were caught in 1976, the plan was to deny any church tie.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe 300-Ton Stones of BaalbekBaalbek's foundation blocks weigh hundreds of tons. Adherents ask how Roman cranes alone could have set them.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRobert HanssenHanssen's affidavit and DoJ OIG review document decades of FBI security failure—not master-spy myth.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBoeing 737 MAX Certification FailuresMCAS was left out of the manuals. Level B training kept a common type rating, so MCAS simulator time was not required.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAldrich AmesAmes's plea and DoJ OIG summary document nine years of espionage and CIA–FBI coordination failure.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Biden Replacement TheoryPosts say Joe Biden was swapped for a double, a masked actor, or clones; fact-checks and records answer specific posts.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject West Ford: Copper Needles in OrbitLincoln Lab lofted copper dipoles to bounce X-band. The belt worked briefly; NASA still tracks the clumps.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYPurdue Pharma and OxyContinPurdue minimized OxyContin addiction risk while the opioid death curve climbed. Settlements came later.
ALT HISTORYChavín de Huántar and the Lanzón GalleryUNESCO Chavín + Stanford acoustics put the Lanzón gallery on pilgrimage paperwork—not serpent-contact lore.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Dreyfus Affair ForgeriesFrench military justice met a handwriting error with forgeries—until cassation broke the seal.