What Intelligence Analysts Really Thought About UFO Reports in the 1950s
A declassified memo titled "Comments on Letters Dealing with Unidentified Flying Objects" gives a rare peek into how intelligence professionals behind closed doors viewed the flood of UFO sightings in the early Cold War. It wasn’t panic. It wasn’t mockery. It was...
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...
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...
