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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.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Pentagon PapersEllsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers and showed successive administrations had lied about Vietnam for years.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLockheed Bribery Scandal and the Birth of the FCPASecret payments the filings did not show came first, and the foreign-bribery statute came after that record.
ALT HISTORYLord of Sipán: Walter Alva and the Moche Royal Tombs1987 Sipán: Alva’s salvage archaeology raced a looting-to-market pipeline into Moche royal tombs.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Chrome Dome: Nuclear Bombers on Airborne AlertChrome Dome kept nuclear B-52s aloft for years. Goldsboro and Palomares scaled it; Thule killed it.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe 2025 Iberian Blackout: Cyberattack, Renewables or Something Else?Some believe a cyberattack or a cover-up is behind the day Spain and Portugal went dark in seconds.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Zircon Affair: GCHQ's Secret Satellite vs ParliamentBBC killed a Zircon spy-satellite film. Injunctions and Official Secrets raids followed. Parliament fought the gag.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Norwegian Rocket Incident (Black Brant Scare, 1995)A Norwegian aurora rocket looked like an SLBM to Russian radars. The pad flight was fine. The warning system was not.
ALT HISTORYTartariaTartaria: a lost world empire buried by mud, or old map names, temporary fairs and raised streets?
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSSanxingdui Sacrificial Bronze PitsOnline theorists read Sanxingdui's giant eyes as alien portraits. Sun Hua and the excavators call them Shu ritual art.
OCEANThe Mariana Trench Anomalous SoundsAdherents hear machinery in the trench's metallic call. A 2024 NOAA-led study traced the Biotwang to Bryde's whales.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Titanium Crust AnomalyAdherents read lunar titanium and uranium-236 as a built hull. Argonne later found 236U in its laboratory air.
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.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESIce Wall Antarctica and The Final Experiment 2024An ice rim is said to bound a flat earth, and a 2024 Antarctic trip is offered as a test of that claim.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLooking Glass: SAC's Airborne Nuclear Command PostSAC kept a nuclear command post airborne for 29 years. Looking Glass mirrored Offutt—then handed off to Navy E-6Bs.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBAE Al-Yamamah and the SFO HaltSFO halted Al-Yamamah for security; Lords upheld it; OECD called the halt a Convention crisis.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Church CommitteeThe 1975 Church Committee dragged COINTELPRO, MKUltra, and CHAOS into the Senate record under oath.
ALT HISTORYCity of David Digs and the Eilat Mazar Palace DebateMazar called it David’s palace. Critics deny that. The dig is real. The palace is not confirmed.
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.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSChromosome 2 FusionGenome papers read human chromosome 2 as a fusion of two ape chromosomes; creationist researchers dispute that reading.