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Operation Highjump: Inside Byrd’s Missing Diary Myth

Operation Highjump: Inside Byrd’s Missing Diary Myth

Key Takeaways Operation HIGHJUMP was a documented U.S. Navy expedition in 1946–47, involving about 4,700 personnel, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft, focused on polar equipment testing, mapping, and base establishment, as detailed in official naval reports. Community retellings often highlight unverified claims like a ‘secret diary’ of Admiral Byrd describing an inner-Earth paradise, alleged Nazi […]

Jan 28, 2026
Viral Reality Glitches: What Survives Fact-Checking

Viral Reality Glitches: What Survives Fact-Checking

Key Takeaways Many viral claims—double suns, time-travelers in photos, frozen birds, and sudden foreknowledge in videos—spread quickly online but often have ordinary explanations. Verified science and historical checks explain several cases: atmospheric optics (sun dogs) produce apparent extra suns; photo historians find period-appropriate objects in alleged anachronisms. Some items remain unresolved: the 1977 Wow! Signal […]

Jan 28, 2026
Sergei Ponomarenko: Time Traveler or Fabricated Hoax?

Sergei Ponomarenko: Time Traveler or Fabricated Hoax?

Key Takeaways A disoriented man identifying himself as Sergei Ponomarenko appeared in Kyiv on April 23, 2006, claiming he had just been in 1958, backed by a Soviet-era ID and an old film camera with undeveloped photos. Surviving evidence includes developed images showing mid-20th-century scenes, a woman, and a bell-shaped UFO, but modern checks trace […]

Jan 28, 2026
CERN Sky Portal Videos: Viral Hoax or Missed Anomaly?

CERN Sky Portal Videos: Viral Hoax or Missed Anomaly?

Key Takeaways Viral videos and stills from 2015–2016 show a circular, swirling cloud formation and a bright orb claimed to be ‘above CERN’ (example uploads circulated on YouTube). Major fact-checkers (Snopes, USA Today) and mainstream outlets found no evidence that CERN opened a literal ‘portal’ and traced many clips to tourist footage, misattribution, or meteorological/optical […]

Jan 28, 2026
Viral UAP Fires & Havana Clips: What’s Actually Proven

Viral UAP Fires & Havana Clips: What’s Actually Proven

Key Takeaways The viral clips push claims of strange aerial objects, unexplained fires, odd EMF readings from phones, AI or voice oddities, and hints at exotic weapons or hidden programs—building a picture of something lurking just out of sight. Verified points include the U.S. Navy and Pentagon acknowledging three infrared videos from 2004 and 2015 […]

Jan 26, 2026
Karla Turner: Why Alien Abductions Aren’t What They Seem

Karla Turner: Why Alien Abductions Aren’t What They Seem

Key Takeaways from Karla Turner’s Work and Death Karla Turner claimed that abduction phenomena often involve deception, with entities that could be interpreted in spiritual or demonic terms, as detailed in her books Into the Fringe (1992), Taken (1994), and Masquerade of Angels (1994). Verifiable evidence includes her published works available on archive.org and Goodreads, […]

Jan 19, 2026
Nukes in Orbit: Starfish Prime and Greenland’s Golden Dome

Nukes in Orbit: Starfish Prime and Greenland’s Golden Dome

Key Takeaways The verifiable record confirms Starfish Prime as a 1962 high-altitude nuclear test that caused EMP effects, auroras, and satellite damage, setting a precedent for fears about nukes in space. Commentators in online communities blend this history with claims about Greenland’s role in modern missile defenses like Golden Dome, mixing military facts with UFO […]

Jan 19, 2026
Asteroid Airbursts: Why the Next One Could Be Worse

Asteroid Airbursts: Why the Next One Could Be Worse

Key Takeaways Large atmospheric explosions are documented: The 2013 Chelyabinsk event released about 400–500 kilotons of TNT, captured on dash-cam videos and causing injuries from shattered windows. Rarer, massive events show escalation potential: The 1908 Tunguska airburst, estimated at 3–50 megatons, leveled over 2,150 km² of forest, hinting at regional catastrophe without a crater. Monitoring […]

Jan 16, 2026
UFO Archives vs Pentagon Reports: The Nimitz Tic Tac

UFO Archives vs Pentagon Reports: The Nimitz Tic Tac

Key Takeaways Archives like Rice University’s AOTI, founded in 2014, now hold around 18 collections and over a million documents by 2025, preserving crucial UAP records that challenge official narratives. The 2004 USS Nimitz ‘Tic Tac’ encounter, backed by FLIR and IR footage released in 2017, remains a standout anomaly with reports of extreme maneuvers […]

Jan 12, 2026
Bob Lazar & S-4: What the Declassified Records Show

Bob Lazar & S-4: What the Declassified Records Show

Key Takeaways from the Lazar Case In 1989, Bob Lazar went public in a silhouetted interview on KLAS with reporter George Knapp, claiming he worked at a secret site called S-4 near Area 51, where he helped reverse-engineer non-terrestrial craft. Independent records offer some support: a 1982 Los Alamos phonebook entry and local press clippings […]

Jan 9, 2026
Arctic Little People: Folklore, Hoax, or Hidden Species?

Arctic Little People: Folklore, Hoax, or Hidden Species?

Key Takeaways Witnesses across Alaska, Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut report encounters with small, elusive beings, known locally as Inukin/Enukin, Iñukun, Ircenrraat, or inuarutligak. The strongest public record relies on testimonials and folklore: early 20th-century collections by Knud Rasmussen and others, plus eyewitness reports like Kenneth Ashby’s from Noatak in 1938, alongside ongoing local accounts. No […]

Dec 28, 2025
Younger Dryas Comet: What Randall Carlson Gets Wrong

Younger Dryas Comet: What Randall Carlson Gets Wrong

Younger Dryas, Carlson, and the Limits of a Catastrophe Claim Summary Proponents of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis argue that around 12,900 years ago an extraterrestrial event such as a comet airburst produced a hemispheric layer of anomalous materials, abrupt cooling, widespread fires, and biological and cultural disruptions. Randall Carlson and Stefan Burns revisit these […]

Dec 27, 2025