#Documented

On 24 January 1961 a B-52 breakup near Goldsboro released two Mk 39 thermonuclear bombs. Public framing stressed the weapons stayed safe; Parker F. Jones's 1969 Sandia memo, later FOIA'd into view, concluded that on one bomb a single ready/safe switch was the last barrier to full yield.

Excavations led by Mike Parker Pearson, Richard Bevins, Rob Ixer and colleagues at Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin document Neolithic megalith quarrying for Stonehenge bluestones around 3000 BC, published in Antiquity, against glacier-only and ancient-astronaut haul myths.

Khirbet Qumran, the ruined settlement on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea adjacent to the scroll caves, was excavated in the 1950s under Roland de Vaux for the École Biblique et Archéologique Française, with Jordanian Department of Antiquities and Palestine Archaeological Museum partners.

Nazca geoglyphs are archaeologically attested ritual/landscape features; 2024 Yamagata University / AI-assisted surveys nearly doubled known figurative geoglyphs, clarifying trail-associated motifs versus larger line figures—recenter peer-reviewed survey science over von Däniken runway myths.

On 17 January 1966 a Chrome Dome B-52 collided with a tanker over Palomares, Spain, releasing four B28 thermonuclear weapons. Public framing stressed safe/no nuclear yield; DNA, FRUS, and a FOIA'd State history document plutonium scatter ashore, months of Mediterranean recovery, and Franco's permanent ban on nuclear overflights.

On the Bolivian altiplano south of Lake Titicaca, inside the Kalasasaya enclosure at Tiwanaku, stands the Gate of the Sun—Puerta del Sol—an andesite doorway carved from a single slab and crowned by a bas-relief frieze whose central figure holds staffs and wears an elaborate headdress. UNESCO’s World Heritage listing for Tiwanaku treats the Gate as a principal specimen of the site’s ceremonial art.

Maya hieroglyphic writing is a logosyllabic system—word signs and phonetic syllables working together—used across Classic and Postclassic lowland cities for dynastic history, ritual, and calendrics. It is not an unbroken mystery.

Bre-X Minerals marketed enormous Busang gold resources in the mid-1990s before Freeport-McMoRan's May 1997 8-K published Strathcona Mineral Services' interim conclusion that economic gold was virtually absent and sample gold was extraneous. The Ontario Securities Commission charged John Felderhof with insider trading and misleading disclosure; he was acquitted in 2007 and OSC declined to appeal. The Archive holds the securities/audit spine as primary and keeps murder folklore outside L1.

Kathleen **Kenyon**’s digs at **Tell es-Sultan (Jericho)** placed the famous walled city’s terminal destruction in the **Middle Bronze** (~**1550 BCE** range in her synthesis), undermining popular Late Bronze “Joshua” chronologies. **Bryant Wood** and Associates for Biblical Research revived a ~**1400 BCE** LB destruction reading from pottery/scarabs; Piotr **Bienkowski** and others rejected it.…

On 21 January 1968 a Hard Head / Thule Monitor B-52 crashed on North Star Bay ice, rupturing four thermonuclear weapons without nuclear yield. Public framing stressed no danger; NS Archive / SAC History #113 / AEC Bruner packets document Crested Ice cleanup, a gentleman's agreement to remove contaminated ice, a missing spark-plug secondary, and the end of continuous nuclear airborne alert.

In December 2011 ISAF acknowledged a possible U.S. unarmed reconnaissance UAV lost after operators lost control over western Afghanistan; President Obama publicly asked Iran to return the aircraft, and Secretary Panetta supported that request on the record. Iranian electronic-warfare and reverse-engineering narratives are labeled claims. The Archive keeps documented/L2: loss and ask documented; mechanism edges contested.

Tom Dillehay's excavations at Monte Verde, southern Chile, forced many archaeologists off strict Clovis First after a 1997 expert visit and Science coverage; critics including Stuart Fiedel attacked provenience, and a 2026 Science paper by Surovell et al. argued mid-Holocene ages for contested contexts—immediately disputed.

July 1959 Sodium Reactor Experiment at Santa Susana: official posture stresses contained failure and within-limits noble gases; NAA-SR-4488 and DOE’s own SRE page record cladding melt on 13/43 assemblies and ~two months of AEC-approved atmospheric venting. Area IV consent-order cleanup on Boeing-owned land remains unfinished.

Bankruptcy examiner Anton R. Valukas's March 2010 report reconstructs Lehman's Repo 105/108 trades that temporarily removed assets to shrink reported net leverage at quarter-end. Volumes 1, 3, and 4 document the sale-treatment device, leverage targeting, and colorable-claims analysis—accounting disguise of risk, not a claim that Repo 105 alone caused 2008.

On 8 June 1967 Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked the SIGINT ship USS *Liberty*, killing thirty-four Americans. NSA’s FOIA historical releases of helicopter–tower audio/transcripts, a 13 June 1967 CIA memorandum in FRUS, and the Agency’s *Attack on a SIGINT Collector* history document the intercept record while leaving deliberate-versus-mistake—and any U.S. cover claim—outside settled fact.

NASA SP-4404 and CIA Oxcart histories document Lockheed CL-400 Suntan as a late-1950s USAF liquid-hydrogen reconnaissance concept cancelled on range and cryogenic basing grounds; dollar and performance edges stay carefully sourced under a contested verdict.

Ludwig **Borchardt**’s German excavation at **Amarna** found the painted limestone bust of **Nefertiti** on **6 Dec 1912**. It entered Berlin via the era’s **partage** system; Egyptian officials later argued Borchardt downplayed the piece (gypsum description / poor photo / boxing narratives in press histories). It remains a centerpiece of Berlin’s Egyptian Museum (Neues Museum / SPK). Egypt’s…

After 9/11, a presidential Authorization covered NSA activities under the STELLARWIND cover term (publicly framed as the Terrorist Surveillance Program; IG language: President's Surveillance Program). The July 2009 five-agency IG report mandated by FAA Title III—and FOIA-declassified volumes through 2015–16—document OLC scaffolding, DoJ/FISC crisis, and years outside ordinary FISA practice.

AT&T technician Mark Klein revealed a NSA-linked secret room at a San Francisco switching center that split fiber traffic for surveillance; EFF litigation and Klein's declaration created a rare on-the-record physical description of dragnet infrastructure.

National Museum USAF and USAF packets document Boeing’s Bird of Prey as a 1992–1999 Phantom Works single-seat stealth demonstrator (fall 1996 first flight, ~38 flights) revealed and donated in 2002 after its LO and manufacturing techniques had already diffused into programs such as X-45A.

On 31 May 1873, Heinrich Schliemann uncovered a gold-and-silver hoard at Hisarlık (Troy) that he sensationally named “Priam’s Treasure.” He donated the Trojan antiquities to Berlin’s museums (1881). In 1945, Red Army trophy brigades removed the gold components from a Berlin bunker; Russia denied knowledge until 1993–94, then displayed them at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum. Germany still claims ownership; Russia’s Federal Law 64-FZ (15 Apr 1998) treats WWII “displaced cultural valua

SEC sued Kozlowski, Swartz, and Belnick in September 2002 for undisclosed loans and self-dealing. A Manhattan jury convicted Kozlowski and Swartz in 2005; the New York Court of Appeals affirmed in 2008; SEC settled permanent officer/director bars in 2009. Contested HOLD: living-person care; criminal spine is state DA not federal DOJ; settlement/release ≠ vacatur.

Crypto AG sold cipher machines worldwide under a neutral Swiss commercial reputation. NS Archive FOIA (Friedman; Condor cables), Swiss GPDel inspection (Nov 2020), and Federal Council reply document CIA–BND secret ownership (Minerva / Thesaurus→Rubicon) and Swiss intelligence knowledge from 1993—acknowledgment trail over press-only spine.

Lockheed Skunk Works Have Blue demonstrators proved faceted radar stealth, leading to the F-117 Nighthawk—publicly acknowledged 1988, displayed 1990. Documentary black-budget aviation without Aurora folklore.