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SCIENCE & SPACEChallenger Crew: The SurvivorsPosts say the Challenger crew lived on; NASA's record says the seven died.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject MINARET: The NSA Watch-List ProgramChurch Committee and declassified NSA histories document MINARET—a 1967–1973 watch-list SIGINT program..
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Hexagonal Storm of SaturnSaturn's hexagon looks like impossible geometry. Cassini tracked it, and a University of Oxford tank spun one up.
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 UN Emblem Azimuthal Map as Flat-Earth EvidenceAdherents read the UN polar azimuthal emblem as a flat map. UN text calls it a projection. Contested.
ALT HISTORYNess of Brodgar: Orkney’s Neolithic Complex Between the CirclesThe Ness of Brodgar was a walled Neolithic complex, not empty land between the circles.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDFranco-Era Materia Reservada UFO SecrecyBenítez says Franco's Spain made UFOs reserved matter in 1968. Ballester Olmos dates the strict secrecy to 1979.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCastle Bravo Fallout (1 March 1954)The early public line said the exposure was small, planned, and already over.
ALT HISTORYWadi el-Hol: Early Alphabet Inscriptions in Egypt’s Western DesertDarnell desert-road survey: early alphabetic graffiti at Wadi el-Hol—documented epigraphy.
ALT HISTORYMonte Verde and the Fight Over America's First PeoplesClovis-first denied a pre-Clovis Americas. The 1997 visit accepted one Monte Verde layer, not a first date.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSevso Treasure: Provenance Fights Without a Proven FindspotSevso Treasure: provenance litigation without a proven findspot—documented claims, not dealer folklore.
ESPIONAGEProject BLUEBIRDProject BLUEBIRD is the 1950 interrogation file; a hearing says it was renamed ARTICHOKE, apart from MKULTRA.
Operation Snow WhiteScientology agents in federal offices stole files; after two were caught in 1976, the plan was to deny any church tie.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMachu Picchu Artifacts: Yale, Bingham, and the Peru ReturnYale called the collection a lawful export. A 2010 accord, not a judgment, sent it to Casa Concha.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCamp Lejeune Water ContaminationCamp Lejeune’s wells carried VOCs for decades. ATSDR, VA, and CLJA are the paper trail—not folklore.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTyco International / Dennis KozlowskiSEC civil fraud plus New York grand-larceny convictions—affirmed on appeal, then SEC bars. Lifestyle memes ≠ verdict.
ESPIONAGEOperation Ivy BellsNavy/NSA tapped Okhotsk for years until Pelton sold it—Walker is the crypto sibling, not the tap salesman.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSpycatcher Affair / Peter WrightWright published Spycatcher. Lords and Strasbourg judged injunctions—not every memoir mole claim.
HISTORICAL EVENTSProto-Elamite Tablets: Accounting Before a Readable LanguageProto-Elamite: accounting before readable language—CDLI/Iranica doors; ≠ Linear Elamite crack.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Dogon Tribe and the Invisible StarDogon lore about Sirius B still fuels claims of star knowledge no telescope should have taught them.