Past releases
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Preston Nichols — Sole Source, Montauk Project
Every strange thing you have heard about Camp Hero traces back to one Long Island electronics technician. Preston Nichols worked in radio and audio engineering, and in 1992 published 'The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time' with co-author 'Peter Moon' — the pen name of Vincent Barbarick — describing time travel, mind control, and displaced crewmen from the USS Eldridge at a decommissioned radar station down the road.
Tsar Bomba — RDS-220 Test Report
The Soviet Union built a bomb so large it had to be scaled down before anyone would agree to drop it. The original design ran to roughly 100 megatons; engineers halved it to about 50 by swapping a uranium tamper for lead, which is the only recorded instance of a weapons program deciding something was too much. It still produced the largest man-made explosion in history, over Novaya Zemlya, in front of a camera crew.
The Majestic 12 (MJ-12) Papers
A set of documents that arrived on a filmmaker's doorstep as undeveloped 35mm negatives, describing a secret committee of scientists and officials convened by President Truman in 1947 to manage the recovery of a crashed craft and its occupants near Roswell, New Mexico.
The Philadelphia Experiment & The Montauk Project
A pair of linked legends spanning four decades: the alleged 1943 attempt to render the USS Eldridge invisible — and, in some tellings, teleport it — through unified field theory experiments, and its rumored sequel at a Montauk, Long Island radar station, where displaced Eldridge crewmen and abducted local teenagers were said to be used in mind control, time travel, and psychic research into the 1980s.
Views on Trained Cats — Project ACOUSTIC KITTY
In the 1960s the CIA looked at the Cold War, looked at the domestic housecat, and concluded these two things should be combined. Surgeons implanted a microphone in the ear canal, a transmitter at the base of the skull, and an antenna woven into the tail — then released the resulting animal near Soviet targets in the hope it would loiter within earshot. Reported cost: roughly $20 million. Reported behavior: cat.
Cuban Missile Crisis Briefing Boards
The annotated U-2 photographs shown to President Kennedy on 16 October 1962, with hand-lettered arrows identifying missile erectors and tent areas in the San Cristóbal valley.
AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I
A congressionally mandated review of every U.S. government UAP program since 1945, including interviews with personnel who claimed knowledge of recovered non-human craft.
The Roswell Report: Project MOGUL
The Air Force's own reconstruction of the 1947 Roswell debris as wreckage from a classified high-altitude balloon array built to detect Soviet nuclear tests by listening to the upper atmosphere.
STARGATE — Remote Viewing Program Files
Two decades of government-funded psychic espionage research, including session transcripts in which subjects attempted to describe Soviet facilities from a windowless room in Maryland.
CORONA Satellite Reconnaissance Program
The first American photo-reconnaissance satellites, whose film capsules were caught mid-air by aircraft trailing recovery nets over the Pacific. Thirteen consecutive failures preceded the first success.
VENONA Decrypts
Thousands of partially decrypted Soviet intelligence cables, cracked over decades by exploiting a one-time-pad reuse error by a wartime Soviet cipher factory.
Operation Northwoods Memorandum
A signed proposal to manufacture pretexts for war with Cuba, including staged attacks on American targets and a fabricated aircraft shootdown. President Kennedy rejected it.
The Able Archer 83 Sourcebook
A retrospective assessment concluding the 1983 NATO command exercise brought the superpowers 'inadvertently' close to nuclear war because Soviet leadership believed the drill was cover for a real first strike.
U-2 Overflights of the Soviet Union
An internal history of the reconnaissance program that flew above Soviet air defenses — and, incidentally, generated a spike in UFO reports from airline pilots who had never seen anything cruise at 70,000 feet.
The "Family Jewels" Report
A 693-page internal inventory of CIA activities that 'might be construed to be outside the legislative charter,' compiled by Director James Schlesinger after Watergate.
MKULTRA Subproject Financial Records
Roughly 20,000 budget documents that survived a 1973 destruction order because they were misfiled in a records annex — the only surviving paper trail of the CIA's behavioral modification program.
Project Blue Book — Final Case Disposition Summary
The closing ledger of the Air Force's 17-year UFO investigation: 12,618 sightings logged, 701 left unidentified, and a recommendation that the program be shut down.
"Orbs Over the Pond" — AARO Video Case File
Short infrared clip and accompanying case notes describing multiple spherical objects loitering over water within restricted airspace, later published as part of AARO's public case resolution effort.
FBI Correspondence on the Cascade Mountains Lights
A terse memorandum routed through J. Edgar Hoover's office concerning repeated reports of luminous objects over the Cascade Range in Washington State, two years after the Kenneth Arnold sighting made 'flying saucer' a household phrase.
The Holy Family — A Fiction in Four Lives
A made-up story that stamps itself as one. We follow Yeshua of Nazareth, his cousin John the Baptist, Miriam of Magdala and the children through an invented chronicle, set in the gaps where the sources go quiet. Not history, not a claim, not a conspiracy — a story that knows it is a story.
Pangaea — The Lost Continent That Was Actually Real
Every lost-continent story on this site is fiction except this one. A single landmass containing every continent you have ever stood on, surrounded by one world ocean, and it left evidence in rock on both sides of the Atlantic. The interesting part is not that it existed. It is that the man who worked it out was laughed at until he died on the ice.
The Giants Under Malta
Malta has temples older than the pyramids, an underground burial complex cut three storeys into solid rock, and a persistent rumour that the people who built all of it were enormous, long-skulled, and quietly removed from public display. Two of those three things are true, and it is not the one about the giants.
Moon Landing: Fake or Not
The claim that twelve men did not walk on the Moon between 1969 and 1972, and that the whole thing was staged on a soundstage by the same government that could not keep a burglary at the Watergate quiet. Everything in the claims column below is unproven, disputed, or long since dismantled; the rebuttals are the historical consensus and are not seriously contested.
The JFK Assassination — Sixty Years in the Crosshairs
Reader warning: President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas on 22 November 1963. The conspiracy industry built around that fact contains a small amount of documented uncertainty, a great deal of disputed inference, and entire warehouse districts of fabricated folklore. What follows is a tour of the theories, not an endorsement of them. Most remain unproven; several have been thoroughly dismantled; none should be mistaken for established fact just because somebody drew a red line across a photograph.
The Baltic Sea Anomaly
Two Swedish treasure hunters looking for shipwrecks and vintage champagne instead found a 60-metre circular thing on the seabed between Sweden and Finland, complete with what looked like a runway scraped behind it. The internet immediately identified it as the Millennium Falcon. The geologists identified it as a rock.
Lemuria — The Continent That Was Once a Reasonable Idea
Lemuria began as a legitimate scientific proposal to explain why lemur fossils turn up in both Madagascar and India, was rendered unnecessary by the discovery of continental drift, and then had a long and successful second career as a sunken homeland for spiritually advanced ancients.
The Land of Mu
A lost Pacific continent, home to sixty-four million people and the source of all human civilisation, which sank without trace. It originates in a nineteenth-century mistranslation of Maya script, and was then developed at length by a retired British officer working from tablets nobody else was permitted to see.
Derinkuyu — The City Under the Basement
A man in the Turkish town of Derinkuyu knocked down a wall during a home renovation in 1963 and found a tunnel. The tunnel led to a room. The room led to a city carved eighteen storeys down into volcanic rock, with capacity estimated in the thousands of people, plus their livestock.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The oldest surviving great work of literature is about a king who is unbearable, is given a friend to fix his personality, loses that friend, and then walks to the end of the world in an unsuccessful attempt to stop being mortal. Written on clay. Still better paced than most things.
The Book of Enoch and the Watchers
An ancient text that did not make the final cut of most Bibles, in which two hundred angels called the Watchers descend to Mount Hermon, take human wives, and then — this is the part everyone remembers — teach humanity metallurgy, cosmetics, weapons, and astrology, as though the fall of civilization were largely a continuing-education problem.
Nikola Tesla — The Man Who Wired the Century
Born during a thunderstorm in Smiljan, in what is now Croatia, in July 1856, to a Serbian Orthodox priest who wanted him to become a priest as well. He became instead the person who worked out how to move power across a continent, which is arguably the more useful ministry.
Nikola Tesla's 7 Best Inventions
A short inventory of the things one man built that you are almost certainly using, standing near, or being irradiated by right now. Ranked loosely by how casually he treated each one.
Agartha — The Kingdom Inside the Earth
The claim is that an advanced civilization lives inside a hollow Earth, in a realm called Agartha, entered through openings at the poles — a geography in which the planet is less a rock than a duplex.
Codex Gigas — The Devil's Bible
The largest surviving medieval illuminated manuscript: 310 surviving pages (there were once more), around 165 pounds, written on vellum made from the skins of over a hundred donkeys or calves. It contains the full Latin Bible plus assorted medieval knowledge, and on folio 290 a full-page portrait of Satan, which is the reason nobody calls it by its actual name.
Project Serpo — The Exchange Program That Never Was
On 2 November 2005, an anonymous emailer claiming to be a retired Defense Intelligence Agency official began posting to a UFOlogy mailing list moderated by Victor Martinez. The story: following the 1947 Roswell incident, twelve U.S. military personnel — ten men and two women — departed in 1965 aboard an alien craft for a planet called Serpo in the Zeta Reticuli system, lived there for over a decade, and a handful came back. No paperwork was attached, which for a government exchange program of that scale is quite an oversight.
Richard Doty — AFOSI and the Bennewitz Operation
Richard Doty was an AFOSI special agent stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico in the early 1980s, during which time Albuquerque physicist Paul Bennewitz began reporting strange lights and intercepted signals near the base. Rather than simply tell him to stop pointing equipment at a facility with nuclear weapons storage, the counterintelligence answer was to give him something more interesting to think about.
Mel's Hole — Coast to Coast AM, February 1997
A caller identifying himself as Mel Waters told Art Bell that he had a bottomless pit on his land near Ellensburg, Washington. He said he had lowered 80,000 feet of fishing line into it without touching bottom — roughly fifteen miles of line, which is more than the deepest borehole humanity has ever drilled and would have required a spool the size of a car. Neighbors, he added, used it for garbage disposal.
The Ten Missing Days of October 1582
The Julian calendar had been running about eleven minutes fast per year since Caesar, which sounds harmless until you let it compound for sixteen centuries and Easter starts drifting toward summer. The fix was to delete the accumulated error outright: in the countries that adopted it immediately, Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 October 1582. Ten days simply did not occur.
The Black Knight Satellite
A 13,000-year-old alien satellite allegedly parked in polar orbit, watching us. The legend is not one story but a pile of unrelated ones stacked in a trench coat: Tesla's 1899 Colorado Springs claim of rhythmic radio signals, a rumored Gordon Cooper sighting he never actually described that way, assorted Cold War tracking anomalies, and a 1998 photograph from shuttle mission STS-88.