Investigations
Opening the case files
Investigations
Opening the case files
The Unexplained Case Files
Longform investigations of extraordinary claims, the records behind them, and the questions still open.

Investigation / 20003170951036
On July 8, 1947, readers of the Roswell Daily Record opened their newspaper to an extraordinary announcement. The Army air field had recovered a flying saucer. The claim came from the intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group, and the object had already been sent to higher headquarters.

Case file / 74925
Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026, has come and gone. Anyone searching for an update on Chris Bledsoe's prediction deserves more than another article written as though the date is still ahead of us. The account needs to begin with his own words, including his uncertainty about the date and what was supposed to happen.

Case file / 74924
The Hannon family lost several members in a 1776 attack beside the North Pacolet River, according to a regional history published in 1897. The story has been retold often enough that some added details now pass for fact. One concerns the children who lived. The early account names Edwin, Winnie, and infant William. A prior version of our North Pacolet news article named a baby sister, Elizabeth, instead; we corrected it in September 2026. The older source gives us a reason to correct that account, though it cannot settle every detail of a tragedy recorded long after it occurred. John Belton O'Neall Landrum set down the story in . He called it a traditional account. That matters: Landrum was preserving what people in the area remembered more than a century after 1776. He was not quoting an eyewitness record from the day of the attack.

Case file / 74923
Bob Lazar appears in a 1982 Los Alamos telephone directory. A laboratory letter confirms it. Those records establish that he had access to the Los Alamos site through a contractor. They tell us nothing about whether he later handled a spacecraft near Area 51.

Case file / 72943
Introduction: The Real-Life Hawkins Lab

Case file / 72924
This paper demonstrates the remarkable convergence between ancient descriptions of cyclical cataclysms—particularly those found in the dialogues of Plato—and contemporary, non-mainstream geophysical theories that posit a recurring, civilization-ending disaster. It explores two prominent models: the solar micronova and crustal displacement hypothesis, and the Master Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) theory. The core thesis is that a compelling, albeit heterodox, argument for a repeating, civilization-resetting global event emerges when evidence from classical texts is synthesized with these alternative scientific models and a suite of contemporary geophysical anomalies. By synthesizing historical narratives, theoretical mechanics, and current Earth changes, this paper builds a cohesive argument for the plausibility of such events, highlighting the challenge such an interdisciplinary synthesis poses to conventional scientific paradigms.