Conflicting Accounts and a Crater The Mystery of the Fallen Object in Bolivia
A sparse but telling report titled “Bolivia Reports Conflict on Details of Fallen Object” points to a now-forgotten Cold War-era incident involving a mysterious object that fell from the sky. An object that drew immediate attention and contradictory claims...
The 1958 Shootdown of a U.S. Lockheed C-130 Hercules Over Soviet Territory
On September 2, 1958, a United States Air Force C-130 transport aircraft vanished over the Turkish-Soviet border. The official story, locked away for decades under layers of classification, reveals a grim and deliberate shootdown deep within Soviet airspace-an...
Secrets in the Numbers: How the CIA Fought to Shield Government Data
A little-known document titled "Confidentiality of Federal Statistical Records Act" reveals how, in the early 1980s, U.S. intelligence agencies, led by the CIA, resisted legislative efforts to make government-held data more accessible. The document outlines the CIA’s...
Inside the Secret Program That Captured Billions of American Phone Logs
In November 2006, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) issued one of the most sweeping and secretive surveillance orders in American history. The ruling-FISC Order BR 06-08-authorized the bulk collection of telephone metadata by the National Security...
