THE TIMELINE
Every file in the archive, in the order it happened , from a colony that dismantled itself in 1590 to a satellite flash nobody has claimed. The eras are ours, not history's; they mark where the character of the files changes.
BEFORE 18005 FILES
Ancient and early-modern files. Mostly ciphers, colonies, and things the record simply lost.
1404THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPTOPEN CASE240 pages in a script found nowhere else on Earth 1518THE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518OPEN CASEStrasbourg's citizens danced for weeks and could not stop 1587THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKEOPEN CASEOne word on a post, and no distress signal 1692THE HOLLOW EARTHDEBUNKEDOnce a Royal Society hypothesis, now closed by seismology 1795THE OAK ISLAND MONEY PITUNVERIFIED230 years of digging, six deaths, zero treasureTHE 19TH CENTURY7 FILES
The age of the ghost ship and the unsolved murder, before forensics existed to close them.
1872BOHEMIAN GROVEDEBUNKEDThe real retreat, the real owl, the imaginary sacrifice 1872THE MARY CELESTEOPEN CASESound, stocked, sailing herself, and empty 1883THE MARFA LIGHTSUNVERIFIEDMostly headlights, bent by desert air, but not all of them 1885THE BEALE CIPHERSOPEN CASETwo unsolved ciphers said to locate a vault of gold in Virginia 1888JACK THE RIPPEROPEN CASEWhitechapel, autumn 1888, the oldest file in the drawer 1894THE DREYFUS AFFAIRCONFIRMEDThe state framed an innocent man and then forged evidence to keep him convicted 1898THE USS MAINECONTESTED266 dead, a war three months later, and no agreed cause in 128 years1900 – 193816 FILES
Industry, radium, and the first documented corporate cover-ups, plus the false flags that opened a war.
1900THE FLANNAN ISLES LIGHTHOUSEOPEN CASETwo sets of oilskins gone, one still on the hook 1903THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZIONDEBUNKEDThe most consequential proven forgery in history 1908THE TUNGUSKA EVENTCONFIRMEDThe largest impact in recorded history, and a mystery science solved 1912THE TITANIC SWITCHDEBUNKEDThe insurance scam undone by a hull number 1912PILTDOWN MANDEBUNKEDA human skull, an orangutan jaw, and forty years of citations 1912THE VILLISCA AXE MURDERSOPEN CASEA family of six and two guests, killed in one night in a small Iowa town 1915THE LUSITANIACONTESTED1,198 dead, a cargo manifest that was not complete, and a war it helped bring 1917THE RADIUM GIRLSCONFIRMEDTold the glowing paint was safe, taught to lick the brush 1922HINTERKAIFECKOPEN CASESix killed, and the murderer stayed on to feed the animals 1923TETRAETHYL LEADCONFIRMEDSeventy years of leaded fuel, and the science bought to defend it 1932THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDYCONFIRMEDForty years of treatment withheld 1933THE BUSINESS PLOTCONTESTEDA general testified he was recruited to overthrow Roosevelt 1933THE REICHSTAG FIRECONTESTEDLone arsonist or Nazi setup, the argument that won't close 1936UNIT 731 & THE IMMUNITY DEALCONFIRMEDHuman experiments in Manchuria, and the data America bought 1937THE DISAPPEARANCE OF AMELIA EARHARTOPEN CASE"We must be on you but cannot see you", then nothing 1937THE HINDENBURGCONTESTEDStatic discharge or a saboteur, argued for eighty-eight yearsTHE SECOND WORLD WAR10 FILES
Deception operations at industrial scale. Almost everything here is CONFIRMED, because the winners published.
1939THE GLEIWITZ INCIDENTCONFIRMEDThe staged attack that opened the Second World War 1942OPERATION UNDERWORLDCONFIRMEDThe Navy recruited organised crime to secure the New York waterfront 1943THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENTDEBUNKEDThe destroyer escort that vanished, from a port it never visited 1943OPERATION MINCEMEATCONFIRMEDThe corpse that misdirected the German army 1944THE GHOST ARMYCONFIRMEDInflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio traffic 1945OPERATION PAPERCLIPCONFIRMEDNazi scientists, freshly laundered dossiers 1945THE SODDER CHILDRENOPEN CASEA house fire that left five children and not one bone 1945OPERATION SHAMROCKCONFIRMEDThe telegraph companies gave the government copies of everything 1945THE PLUTONIUM INJECTIONSCONFIRMEDHospital patients injected with plutonium to measure how the body handles it 1945FLIGHT 19OPEN CASEFourteen airmen lost, then thirteen more on the searchTHE EARLY COLD WAR29 FILES
Coups, mind control, human radiation studies, and flying saucers. The densest decade in the cabinet.
1946THE GUATEMALA EXPERIMENTSCONFIRMEDAmerican researchers infected Guatemalans with syphilis on purpose 1947THE ROSWELL INCIDENTDEBUNKEDThe crash that launched the UFO era 1947THE BLACK DAHLIAOPEN CASESixty false confessions and a cut nobody could explain 1948OPERATION GLADIOCONTESTEDNATO's secret stay-behind armies, and Italy's Years of Lead 1948THE SOMERTON MANOPEN CASEA body on an Adelaide beach, a scrap of Persian poetry, an uncracked code 1950OPERATION SEA-SPRAYCONFIRMEDThe Navy fogged San Francisco with bacteria 1950OPERATION MOCKINGBIRDCONTESTEDThe CIA and the press: confirmed conduct, unproven code name 1950THE ROSENBERG CASECONTESTEDBoth executed. Later evidence supports one conviction and undermines the other. 1951THE PONT-SAINT-ESPRIT POISONINGCONTESTEDA French town lost its mind for a week 1951C8 AND THE FOREVER CHEMICALSCONFIRMEDThe company knew for decades, and the science it hid was its own 1953PROJECT MKULTRACONFIRMEDCIA mind-control research program 1953THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY COVER-UPCONFIRMED"Doubt is our product", the archetypal proven corporate conspiracy 1953OPERATION AJAXCONFIRMEDThe CIA–MI6 coup that removed Iran's elected prime minister 1953PROJECT SUNSHINECONFIRMEDThe government collected human bones to measure fallout 1954OPERATION PBSUCCESSCONFIRMEDGuatemala's president overthrown by a radio station and a bluff 1954THE BILDERBERG MEETINGCONTESTEDThe most powerful people in the West, in private, with no minutes taken 1954CASTLE BRAVOCONFIRMEDThe worst radiological accident in US history, and the islands not evacuated 1954THE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITEDEBUNKEDA 13,000-year-old alien satellite assembled from five separate incidents 1955AREA 51CONFIRMEDThe secret base was real. The aliens were airplanes. 1956COINTELPROCONFIRMEDThe FBI's covert war on domestic dissent 1957THE BOY IN THE BOXOPEN CASESixty-five years without a name, and still no charges 1957THALIDOMIDECONFIRMEDMarketed as safe in pregnancy, on no evidence that it was 1959DYATLOV PASSCONTESTEDNine hikers, a tent cut open from inside 1960NUMBERS STATIONSCONFIRMEDAnonymous voices, unbreakable arithmetic 1960ACOUSTIC KITTYCONFIRMEDThe CIA wired a live cat for sound 1961THE HAMMARSKJÖLD CRASHCONTESTEDA UN Secretary-General down nine miles short of the runway 1961OPERATION MONGOOSECONFIRMEDThe CIA's campaign to overthrow Cuba, including the assassination plots 1962OPERATION NORTHWOODSCONFIRMEDThe false-flag plan the Joint Chiefs actually signed 1962PROJECT 112 AND SHADCONFIRMEDShipboard and land tests of live agents on American servicemen1963 – 197941 FILES
Assassination, surveillance, and the decade the archives started opening on all of it.
1963THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDTwo official verdicts, sixty years of suspicion, no proven plot 1964THE GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENTCONFIRMEDThe attack that launched a war didn't happen 1964THE BERMUDA TRIANGLEDEBUNKEDA pulp-magazine coinage promoted to a law of nature 1964THE SOLWAY FIRTH SPACEMANUNVERIFIEDA figure in white behind a child on an empty marsh 1965THE KECKSBURG INCIDENTOPEN CASEAn acorn in a ravine, and a flatbed leaving under escort 1965THE MALCOLM X ASSASSINATIONCONFIRMEDTwo convictions vacated in 2021 after fifty-six years 1965THE SUGAR RESEARCH PAPERSCONFIRMEDAn industry bought a Harvard review and shaped fifty years of dietary advice 1966THE BEAUMONT CHILDRENOPEN CASEThree children, a crowded beach, and a tall blond stranger 1966THE LEAD MASKS CASEOPEN CASELead masks, formal suits, and a schedule written in a notebook 1966THE MOTHMANUNVERIFIEDPoint Pleasant, West Virginia, and a winged figure with red eyes 1967THE USS LIBERTY INCIDENTCONTESTEDThirty-four American sailors killed by an ally's aircraft 1967OPERATION POPEYECONFIRMEDWeather as a weapon, five years of secret cloud seeding over Vietnam 1967THE SHAG HARBOUR INCIDENTOPEN CASESomething went into the water off Nova Scotia, and the Navy went in after it 1967OPERATION CHAOSCONFIRMEDA domestic surveillance programme run by the agency banned from domestic work 1967THE PHOENIX PROGRAMCONFIRMEDOver 26,000 dead by the programme's own official count 1968THE ZODIAC KILLEROPEN CASEFive dead, two survivors, and ciphers mailed to the press 1968THE KING ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDOne convicted man who recanted, and a civil verdict nobody talks about 1968THE RFK ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDA convicted killer in front, and a fatal wound fired from behind 1968THE MONSTER OF FLORENCEOPEN CASEEight double murders with the same pistol, and no reliable conviction 1969THE MOON LANDING HOAXDEBUNKED382 kg of moon rock, and a Soviet audience that never cried fake 1969PAUL IS DEADDEBUNKEDThe lookalike theory that outlived its author's confession 1969THE KILLING OF FRED HAMPTONCONFIRMEDA pre-dawn raid, an informant's floor plan, and a $1.85 million settlement 1970THE HUMUNVERIFIEDThe low drone two percent of a town can hear, and no microphone can find 1970THE ISDAL WOMANOPEN CASENine aliases, a coded diary, and no name at all 1970CRYPTO AGCONFIRMEDHalf a century reading the secret traffic of allies and adversaries alike 1971D.B. COOPEROPEN CASEThe only unsolved commercial skyjacking in U.S. history 1971OPERATION IVY BELLSCONFIRMEDA recording pod clamped to a Soviet cable, 400 feet down 1971THE PENTAGON PAPERSCONFIRMEDA classified study showing four administrations had misled the public 1972WATERGATECONFIRMEDThe break-in, the tapes, and the only presidential resignation 1972PROJECT STARGATEDEBUNKEDThe CIA and Army funded remote viewing for two decades 1972THE BCCI AFFAIRCONFIRMEDThe largest bank fraud in history, and its intelligence clientele 1973OPERATION SNOW WHITECONFIRMEDA church put agents inside the IRS and the Justice Department 1974PROJECT AZORIANCONFIRMEDThe CIA stole a Soviet submarine off the ocean floor 1975THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JIMMY HOFFAOPEN CASEA restaurant parking lot, two no-show mobsters, no body ever found 1975OPERATION CONDORCONFIRMEDSix dictatorships, one shared kill list 1975THE AMITYVILLE HORRORDEBUNKEDA real massacre, then a haunting invented over wine 1976THE CIRCLEVILLE LETTERSOPEN CASEA conviction that the letters themselves contradicted 1977THE WOW! SIGNALUNVERIFIEDThe best candidate alien signal ever recorded 1978THE YUBA COUNTY FIVEOPEN CASEA working car abandoned seventy miles the wrong way 1978THE VALENTICH DISAPPEARANCEOPEN CASE"It is hovering, and it's not an aircraft" 1979THE VELA INCIDENTCONTESTEDA satellite built to spot nuclear tests spotted one nobody claims1980 – 199929 FILES
Late Cold War intelligence, corporate liability, and the last mysteries before the internet.
1980THE RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENTUNVERIFIEDThree nights of lights outside a USAF base, memo, tape, and lighthouse included 1980THE OCTOBER SURPRISECONTESTEDDid a campaign bargain to keep hostages in captivity? 1980THE CASH-LANDRUM INCIDENTOPEN CASEMedical injuries consistent with radiation, and a lawsuit dismissed for lack of a defendant 1982THE TYLENOL MURDERSOPEN CASESeven dead, no charges, and the reason every bottle is sealed 1983THE McMARTIN PRESCHOOL TRIALDEBUNKEDSecret tunnels, satanic rituals, 321 counts, zero convictions 1983KOREAN AIR LINES 007CONTESTED269 dead, and a navigational error nobody has fully explained 1983THE TOYNBEE TILESOPEN CASEIdentical messages set into asphalt across two continents 1984MAJESTIC 12DEBUNKEDThe secret UFO committee that existed only on film 1985IRAN–CONTRACONFIRMEDMissiles to Tehran, money to Managua 1987THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENTOPEN CASEAmerica's most famous broadcast hijacking 1988LOCKERBIECONTESTED270 dead, one man convicted, and an appeal that never finished 1988IRAN AIR 655CONFIRMED290 civilians killed by a US missile cruiser in the Gulf 1989THE BELGIAN UFO WAVECONTESTEDAn air force that investigated openly, and a triangle nobody identified 1990THE GARDNER MUSEUM HEISTOPEN CASETwo fake cops, 81 minutes, thirteen masterpieces 1990THE NAYIRAH TESTIMONYCONFIRMEDThe incubator story that helped sell a war 1990KRYPTOSOPEN CASENinety-seven characters that have beaten the world's codebreakers 1991CROP CIRCLESDEBUNKEDMessages in the wheat, signed, eventually, by the authors 1992RUBY RIDGECONFIRMEDA sniper, a woman holding a baby, and a $3.1 million settlement 1993HAARPDEBUNKEDThe Alaskan antenna farm blamed for everyone's weather 1993WACOCONTESTEDThe government denied using incendiary devices, then admitted it in 1999 1994SKINWALKER RANCHUNVERIFIEDThirty years of study, zero published data 1995DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTDEBUNKEDApocalyptic murals, a demon horse, a bunker that ate luggage 1995THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGCONTESTED168 dead, two convictions, and witnesses describing a second man 1996CHEMTRAILSDEBUNKEDThe sky's most-photographed conspiracy is condensation with good lighting 1996PURDUE PHARMA & OXYCONTINCONFIRMEDAn addiction claim built on a five-sentence letter to the editor 1996DARK ALLIANCECONTESTEDA journalist linked CIA-backed Contras to crack cocaine, and lost everything 1996TWA FLIGHT 800DEBUNKEDA missile theory supported by hundreds of witnesses, and refuted by the wreckage 1997THE PHOENIX LIGHTSCONTESTEDTwo events, one legend, and the early "V" won't sit down 1997THE BLOOPDEBUNKEDAn ultra-low frequency sound detected 5,000 kilometres apart2000 – PRESENT14 FILES
Mass surveillance, engineered testimony, and conspiracy theories that organise faster than they can be checked.
2001AMERITHRAXCONTESTEDFive dead, one suspect, and a case closed after he died 2001THE 9/11 "INSIDE JOB" CLAIMSDEBUNKEDControlled demolition, melted steel, and what the engineering shows 2004THE TIC TAC VIDEOSUNVERIFIEDNavy sensors, fighter pilots, and footage the Pentagon admits is real 2006DIESELGATECONFIRMEDSoftware written specifically to cheat, in eleven million vehicles 2009THE MANDELA EFFECTDEBUNKEDThousands of witnesses, one shared wrong memory 2012CICADA 3301OPEN CASEThe internet's most elaborate recruitment puzzle, recruiter unknown 2013PRISM & THE SNOWDEN DISCLOSURESCONFIRMEDThe NSA's mass-surveillance programs, dragged into open court 2013ELISA LAMOPEN CASEFound in a rooftop water tank guests had been drinking from 2014MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 370OPEN CASEA Boeing 777, 239 aboard, six silent hours of flight 2015FLAT EARTHDEBUNKEDSettled by Eratosthenes with two sticks; reopened by recommendation algorithm 2016HAVANA SYNDROMECONTESTED"Anomalous health incidents" among U.S. personnel 2016PIZZAGATEDEBUNKEDA misread email, a nonexistent basement, an armed man 2017QANONDEBUNKEDThousands of predictions, zero hits 2019THE DEATH OF JEFFREY EPSTEINCONTESTEDSuicide by hanging, per every official review, in a cell where every safeguard failed at once