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FANDOM AND CELEBRITIESMax Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion (1987)On 22 November 1987 a Max Headroom mask took WGN and WTTW off the air. The FCC hunted. Nobody was charged.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSSanxingdui Sacrificial Bronze PitsOnline theorists read Sanxingdui's giant eyes as alien portraits. Sun Hua and the excavators call them Shu ritual art.
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.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Blue PlanetSitchin-style Sumerian readings claim tablets already knew Uranus and Neptune's blue faces from space.
George Soros ConspiracyAdherents say George Soros works to remake Europe; the ADL and AJC say many such claims draw on antisemitic tropes.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSNugan Hand BankNugan Hand collapsed in 1980. Stewart’s Royal Commission mapped the wreckage—not a sealed finding that CIA ran the bank.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDAdrenochrome HarvestingA real compound, a 1950s psychiatric hunch and one line from a 1971 novel feed the claim elites harvest it from people.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSParthenon Sculptures / Elgin Marbles: The Legal-Diplomatic TrailBritain calls the removal lawful by firman and the 1816 purchase. Greece calls it a taking from the building.
The Tuskegee Syphilis ExperimentFor 40 years the Public Health Service told Black men it treated their "bad blood" while it withheld syphilis treatment.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Getty Kouros Forgery ControversyGetty Kouros: 1985 buy, dual authenticity label, 2018 Villa removal—prestige vs forgery limbo.
ESPIONAGEKosmos 954: Nuclear Spy Satellite Crash Over CanadaKosmos 954 fell over Canada on 24 Jan 1978. Moscow lagged. Morning Light found radioactive debris. No invented toll.
ALT HISTORYWadi el-Hol: Early Alphabet Inscriptions in Egypt’s Western DesertDarnell desert-road survey: early alphabetic graffiti at Wadi el-Hol—documented epigraphy.
BIOLOGYMinnesota Iceman: The Disputed Original and the Replacement StoryA frozen fairground exhibit became a new-hominid claim before it could be examined outside the ice.
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.
ESPIONAGEStuxnetNo government has admitted building Stuxnet, but the code itself shows it was made to wreck Iran's uranium centrifuges.
AVIATIONDenver Airport: The Tunnels, Murals and Secret-Headquarters ClaimsDenver Airport has tunnels and a Masonic stone; neither proves the hidden headquarters proponents describe.
Operation Snow WhiteScientology agents in federal offices stole files; after two were caught in 1976, the plan was to deny any church tie.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSJPMorgan London WhaleJPMorgan’s CIO “hedge” blew multi-billions. Senate PSI plus OCC/Fed orders are the spine—not the nickname.
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.