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ESPIONAGECanyon: Early Near-Geosynchronous COMINTCanyon put COMINT dishes near GEO. NRO history admits the enterprise—and still redacts the GEO pages.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe 1965 Northeast Blackout and the Glowing Objects Over the Power LinesSome believe the 1965 Northeast blackout began with a glowing craft over a Syracuse substation.
The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann named the mound Troy. Which layer is Homer's city, Troy II or a later one, stays unsettled.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSB-2 Spirit / Advanced Technology Bomber: Senior Ice vs Senior PegOn 20 October 1981 Senior Ice beat Senior Peg inside a black ATB contest—GAO later scored the flying wing.
ESPIONAGEProject Genetrix: Balloon Reconnaissance over the Bloc (1956)Genetrix lofted camera balloons in early 1956—FRUS records the Soviet protest and Eisenhower’s kill.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRocky Flats: FBI Raid and Grand Jury SecrecyRockwell was paid an award fee for environmental control. The 6 June 1989 raid said the plant was not under it.
SURVEILLANCEThe AT&T Hemisphere ProgramHemisphere let agencies search AT&T call records on admin subpoenas. OIG and Senate ask if that fits the Constitution.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSNESARA/GESARA: The Secret Debt-Jubilee ClaimA proposed reform became, in believers' accounts, a secret law promising to erase debts and reset the world.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMichael Milken / Drexel Burnham Junk-Bond ScandalDrexel pleaded; Milken pleaded to six felonies. Contested clearance keeps court verbs—and blocks afterlife sermons.
AVIATIONChemtrailsAdherents say lingering jet trails are chemical spraying; agencies and 76 of 77 surveyed experts say they are contrails.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSDeutsche Bank Russia Mirror TradesMoscow–London mirrors moved billions into dollars. NYDFS and FCA wrote the settlement; DOJ did not close beside them.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPCR Cycle Threshold Arguments and WHO Information NoticesWHO told labs to watch Ct, IFUs, and prevalence. Adherents read a casedemic. Contested/L2 holds both readings.
SURVEILLANCERoom 641AAT&T said it obeyed the law, but a technician's papers showed a locked NSA room copying web traffic in San Francisco.
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.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDChilca and Misión RAMA 1974 ReportageThe contested report is a programmed sighting at Chilca in September 1974, not a landing in the assignment.
HISTORICAL EVENTSCongo Uranium and the Manhattan PipelineSengier parked Congolese ore on Staten Island. Nichols bought it. DOE: ~two-thirds of Manhattan's uranium.
ESPIONAGEStuxnetNo government has admitted building Stuxnet, but the code itself shows it was made to wreck Iran's uranium centrifuges.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Face on Mars and Viking ImagingViking 035A72 looked like a face. NASA’s 1976 caption called shadows. MGS and HiRISE returned a mesa.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Galarza Twelve: Spain's 1976 Partial UFO File ReleaseBenítez says General Galarza told him UFOs were not from Earth. Ballester Olmos says the twelve files hid nothing.