The CIA Tested BOL on Addicts to Cancel an LSD Trip
In early 1957, U.S. government researchers tried to interrupt one of the most powerful altered states ever induced: the LSD experience. Their tool was BOL-2-bromo-LSD-a close chemical cousin to lysergic acid diethylamide but with one key difference: it didn’t cause...
Mysterious Lights & Objects Over Norway Rattle U.S. Observers
A U.S. military report titled “UFOs Observed Over Norway” captures a quiet but unsettling series of incidents involving unidentified objects seen in Norwegian airspace. The sightings, made by American personnel stationed in the region, left enough of an...
How the United States Captured German Atomic Scientists Before the Soviets Could
A declassified letter from 1945, sent by intelligence officer Philip Strong to physicist Samuel Goudsmit, sheds light on one of the most urgent and secretive operations of the final days of World War II: the American race to secure German atomic scientists before the...
How NASA’s Astronaut Health Tech Quietly Launched the Ultrasound Era
Long before ultrasound became a staple of cardiology, a quiet collaboration between NASA and Stanford University helped introduce it-not in a hospital-but through aerospace research. In February 1970, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Stanford’s medical team announced a...
