ENTITY INDEX
Events
597 events mentioned across 151 dossiers in the archive.
UNESCO World Heritage Site designation
1994
Manufacturing Consent published
1988
USS Thresher lost with all 129 crew
1963-04-10
USS Scorpion lost with all 99 crew
1968-05-22
5G begins rolling out globally
2019
5G-COVID conspiracy theories spread; towers attacked
2020
Sputnik launched; space race begins
1957
Apollo 11 moon landing
1969-07-20
Apollo-Soyuz; space race ends
1975
Stasi established
1950
Berlin Wall falls
1989-11-09
Mossad established
1949
Exoplanet discoveries sharpen the paradox
2000s–present
Cixin Liu publishes 'The Dark Forest'
2008
First sighting: security guards report strange lights in Rendlesham Forest
1980-12-26
Second night of sightings; base personnel observe moving lights
1980-12-27
Lt. Col. Halt leads investigation team into the forest
1980-12-28
Halt submits official memo to UK Ministry of Defence
1981-01-13
Halt memo publicly released under FOIA
1983
UK National Archives release additional MOD files on the incident
2010
First major sightings reported in Belgium
1989-11-29
Major sighting night; Belgian Air Force scrambles F-16s
1990-03-30
F-16 radar intercepts object over Belgium
1990-03-31
Belgian Air Force holds press conference acknowledging the events
1990-04
Sightings taper off; SOBEPS publishes comprehensive report
1991
Mass sighting of V-shaped lights over Arizona and Nevada
1997-03-13
Governor Symington holds mock press conference with 'alien' impersonator
1997-03-14
U.S. Air Force issues flare explanation
1997-03-15
Symington publicly admits he saw an unexplainable craft
2007
USS Princeton begins tracking unknown objects off San Diego
2004-11-10
Cmdr. Fravor intercepts the tic tac object
2004-11-14
FLIR video recorded; object disappears
2004-11-14
New York Times exposes AATIP and releases the videos
2017
Department of Defense officially releases FLIR videos
2020
Pentagon establishes UAP Task Force
2021
Fireball seen across six states; military cordons off area near Kecksburg
1965-12-09
Military reportedly removes object on flatbed truck
1965-12-10
NASA claims object was Russian satellite Kosmos 96
1966
NASA claims records were lost; congressional inquiry launched
2008
Anti-aircraft barrage over Los Angeles; 1,400+ rounds fired
1942-02-25
Secretary Stimson orders investigation
1942-02-25
Stimson calls it a 'false alarm'
1942-02-26
Congressional hearing on the incident
1942-03
62 children report UFO landing at Ariel School
1994-09-16
Cynthia Hind arrives and interviews witnesses
1994-09
John Mack publishes findings in 'Passport to the Cosmos'
1996
Project Grudge replaced by Project Blue Book
1951
Washington D.C. UFO sightings intensify the investigation
1952-07
Condon Committee established to evaluate UFOs
1966
Project Blue Book terminated based on Condon Report
1969-12-17
Hynek publishes 'The Hynek UFO Report' questioning Blue Book's conclusions
1976
Twining Memo recommends official UFO investigation
1947-09-23
Project Sign formally established at Wright-Patterson AFB
1948-01
Estimate of the Situation completed; concludes extraterrestrial origin
1948-08
General Vandenberg rejects the Estimate and orders it destroyed
1948-09
Project Grudge replaces Project Sign
1949-02
Project Grudge established, replacing Project Sign
1949-02
Grudge Final Report concludes all UFOs have conventional explanations
1949-08
Project Grudge terminated; Project Blue Book established
1951
Roswell incident occurs
1947-07
Alleged Truman executive order creates MJ-12 (disputed)
1947-09-24
Alleged Eisenhower briefing document created
1952-11
Anonymous source sends MJ-12 documents to researchers
1984
FBI declares the documents to be hoaxes
1988
Cash-Landrum encounter near Huffman, Texas
1980-12-29
Lawsuit filed against U.S. government
1981
Federal court dismisses the case
1986
Tesla detects repeating radio signals from space
1899
Newspaper story claims two unknown satellites in orbit
1954
NASA STS-88 photo misinterpreted as Black Knight
1998
Theory spreads widely through internet
2010s
Germany surrenders; U.S. begins recruiting top German scientists
1945-05
Operation Overcast (Paperclip's predecessor) begins
1945-07
Operation Paperclip formally established by Truman administration
1946-09
Von Braun leads rocket development at Huntsville, Alabama
1950
NASA established; Paperclip scientists join
1958
Apollo 11 lands on the moon, led by former Paperclip personnel
1969
Arthur Rudolph investigated for war crimes, leaves U.S.
1984
Project ARTICHOKE established by CIA
1950
Research expands to include chemical interrogation
1951
ARTICHOKE transitions into broader MKUltra program
1953
Church Committee references ARTICHOKE in its investigation
1975
Operation Midnight Climax safehouses established
1954
Ongoing drug-testing operations at safehouses
1955-1963
Operation scaled back as ethical concerns arose internally
1963
Church Committee exposes the operation
1975
Northwoods memorandum presented to Secretary McNamara
1962-03-13
Kennedy administration rejects the proposals
1962-03-16
Lemnitzer removed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
1962-09
Documents declassified by the National Security Archive
1990s
Remote viewing research begins at SRI International
1972
Program transferred to DIA and Fort Meade
1978
Active operational use for intelligence collection
1980s
Program renamed Stargate Project
1991
CIA review terminates the program
1995
CIA expands media relationships under Dulles and Wisner
1950s
Ramparts magazine exposes CIA funding of student and cultural groups
1967
Church Committee investigates CIA-media relationships
1976
Bernstein publishes 'The CIA and the Media' in Rolling Stone
1977
First Gladio stay-behind networks established in Europe
1948
Period of 'Years of Lead' domestic terrorism in Italy
1969-1980s
Bologna railway station bombing kills 85
1980-08-02
Andreotti publicly confirms Gladio's existence
1990-08
Multiple European parliamentary investigations
1990s
Operation CHAOS begins under CIA direction
1967
Program expands to include mail opening
1969
CHAOS terminated by Helms
1974
Church Committee exposes the program
1975
Project SHAMROCK begins data collection from telegraph companies
1945
Program expands to include electronic surveillance
1960s
Church Committee reveals SHAMROCK to the public
1975
SHAMROCK officially terminated
1975
PRISM program begins collecting data from tech companies
2007
Snowden begins leaking documents to the press
2013-06
FISA court rules metadata collection likely illegal
2013-12
USA Freedom Act ends bulk metadata collection
2015
Section 702 reauthorized with minor reforms
2018
PRISM program established under the Protect America Act
2007
FISA Amendments Act codifies Section 702
2008
Snowden leaks reveal PRISM to the public
2013-06
President's Review Group recommends reforms
2013-12
Section 702 reauthorized by Congress
2018
ECHELON system begins development under the Five Eyes
1960s
Duncan Campbell publishes first detailed ECHELON description
1988
European Parliament releases investigation report on ECHELON
2001
Snowden leaks reveal successor programs beyond ECHELON
2013
Period when many CIA tools were allegedly developed
2011-2016
WikiLeaks begins releasing Vault 7 documents
2017-03-07
CIA Director Pompeo calls WikiLeaks a 'hostile intelligence service'
2017-03
Subsequent Vault 7 releases continue through the year
2017-04
Church Committee established by the Senate
1975-01
Hearings reveal MKUltra and COINTELPRO
1975-09
Final report published in 14 volumes
1976-04
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence established
1976
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed
1978
Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins
1932
Penicillin becomes standard syphilis treatment; withheld from study
1940s
Study exposed by Peter Buxton in the Washington Star
1972-07
Congressional hearings; class action lawsuit filed
1973
President Clinton formally apologizes on behalf of the U.S.
1997
First Bilderberg meeting held at Hotel de Bilderberg, Netherlands
1954-05
Annual meetings continue with growing public awareness
1960s-1990s
Internet age brings increased scrutiny and conspiracy theories
2000s
Bilderberg launches official website to address some public questions
2010
Regius Poem, oldest Masonic text
1390s
First Grand Lodge formed in London
1717
Freemasonry spreads throughout the American colonies
1730s
Morgan Affair leads to anti-Masonic sentiment in U.S.
1826
Declining membership worldwide
2000s–present
Bohemian Club founded in San Francisco
1872
Bohemian Grove property acquired
1893
First lakeside encampment held
1915
Secret footage of the Grove released publicly
2000
CFR founded in New York City
1921
Foreign Affairs journal first published
1922
CFR members dominate post-war foreign policy planning
1940s-1950s
Continued influence; target of new world order theories
2000s–present
Trilateral Commission founded by Rockefeller and Brzezinski
1973
Carter elected President; 13 Trilateral members join his administration
1976
Commission publishes reports on global governance and trade
1970s-1990s
Continued operations as a policy discussion forum
2000s–present
Skull and Bones founded at Yale
1832
First 'Tomb' building constructed
1856
George H.W. Bush's father joins; Bones-Bush dynasty begins
1918
Multiple Bonesmen reach highest levels of U.S. government
1940s–present
Nazca culture begins creating geoglyphs
500 BCE
Nazca culture declines; geoglyph creation stops
500 CE
Modern documentation of the lines begins
1927
Puma Punku construction begins (mainstream dating)
500 CE
Tiwanaku culture declines; site abandoned
1000 CE
Arthur Posnansky begins studying the site
1876
Continued archaeological research and debate
2000s
Great Pyramid of Giza constructed
2580–2560 BCE
Great Pyramid completed as Khufu's tomb
2560 BCE
Flinders Petrie begins systematic surveys of the pyramids
1880
Orion Correlation Theory proposed by Robert Bauval
1980s
Von Däniken publishes 'Chariots of the Gods?'
1968
Sitchin publishes 'The 12th Planet'
1976
Ancient Aliens series premieres on History Channel
2009
Inca Pachacuti begins construction of Sacsayhuaman
1438
Site partially dismantled by Spanish colonizers for building materials
1500s
First moai construction begins on Rapa Nui
1200 CE
Moai construction ceases; island ecology collapses
1600 CE
Dutch explorers 'discover' the island on Easter Sunday
1722
Heyerdahl's expedition studies the moai
1955–1956
Experimental 'walking' of a moai replication succeeds
2012
Sclater proposes Lemuria to explain lemur fossils
1864
Blavatsky publishes 'The Secret Doctrine' describing Lemuria
1888
Churchward publishes 'The Lost Continent of Mu'
1926
Plate tectonics definitively disproves the Lemuria hypothesis
1960s
Alleged first invisibility test of the USS Eldridge
1943-07-22
Alleged second test with teleportation
1943-10-28
Allende sends letters to Jessup describing the experiment
1955
Story popularized through books and documentaries
1970s
HAARP program proposed by the Air Force and Navy
1990
Construction begins at Gakona, Alaska
1994
HAARP reaches full operational capability
2007
Air Force announces termination of HAARP
2014
University of Alaska Fairbanks takes over operations
2015
Philadelphia Experiment (linked to Montauk in claims)
1943
Camp Hero operates as a radar station
1950s-1960s
Camp Hero decommissioned
1969
Montauk Project books published by Nichols
1990s
Camp Hero becomes a New York state park
2002
Tesla announces development of a 'teleforce' weapon
1931
Tesla offers the death ray to multiple governments
1934
Tesla dies; FBI seizes his papers
1943-01-07
Strategic Defense Initiative reignites interest in directed energy
1980s
Traill, Tesla and others claim free energy devices
1910s
Casimir predicts the Casimir Effect from zero-point energy
1948
Puthoff and others propose ZPE extraction theories
1990s
Ongoing debate; no verified ZPE device
2000s–present
Hikers die on Kholat Syakhl mountain
1959-02-02
Search begins after hikers fail to return
1959-02-20
Investigation closed by Soviet authorities
1959-05
Avalanche theory published in Nature Communications
2019
Tunguska event occurs at 7:17 AM local time
1908-06-30
Kulik begins investigating the event
1921
First expedition reaches the Tunguska site
1927
Chelyabinsk meteor provides comparative data on airbursts
2013
Manuscript parchment dated to this period
1404–1438
First known documentation of the manuscript
1583
Wilfrid Voynich acquires the manuscript
1912
Manuscript donated to Yale's Beinecke Library
1969
Radiocarbon dating confirms medieval origin
2011
Mary Celeste departs New York for Genoa
1872-11-07
Last log entry (ship 10 days from destination)
1872-11-25
Dei Gratia finds Mary Celeste adrift
1872-12-04
Admiralty court rules on salvage
1873
Roanoke Colony established with 115 settlers
1587-07
White leaves for England to get supplies
1587-08
White returns; colony is abandoned
1590-08-18
Archaeological finds on Hatteras Island
1998
Man found dead on Somerton Park beach
1948-12-01
Matching book found; cipher discovered
1949-01
Case remains open; no identity established
1949
DNA analysis identifies the man as Carl Webb
2022
Hijacking occurs; Cooper parachutes over Washington
1971-11-24
Massive manhunt begins across the Pacific Northwest
1971-11-25
Ransom money discovered at Tena Bar, Columbia River
1980-02-10
FBI officially closes the active investigation
2016
Family home burns; five children vanish
1945-12-24
Fire investigated; no remains found
1945-12-25
Theories of abduction pursued by the family
1940s-1960s
Final private investigator report published
2010
Flannan Isles Lighthouse completed and operational
1899
Last known entry in the lighthouse logbook
1900-12-15
Relief ship arrives; keepers are missing
1900-12-26
Official investigation concludes men were swept away
1900-12-29
Mayer Rothschild establishes banking business in Frankfurt
1760s
Nathan Rothschild's actions during the Napoleonic Wars
1815
Rothschilds become dominant force in European finance
1830s-1850s
Family expands globally; key holdings in mining and energy
20th century
First reported Mothman sighting by gravediggers
1966-11-15
Scarberry sightings; police confirm seeing the creature
1966-11-16
Silver Bridge collapses; Mothman sightings end
1967-12-15
Keel publishes 'The Mothman Prophecies'
1975
Film adaptation starring Richard Gere
2002
Legendary birth of the Jersey Devil (Mother Leeds story)
1735
Major wave of sightings across New Jersey and Pennsylvania
1909-01
Camden police shot at a fleeing creature
1909-01-21
Ongoing occasional sightings
1960s–present
First Chupacabra attacks reported in Puerto Rico
1995-03
Reports spread across Puerto Rico; media coins the name
1995-08
First reports in mainland United States
1996
DNA testing confirms dog-like Chupacabras are mangy canids
2000s
Saint Columba reports an encounter with a 'water beast'
565 CE
Mackay sighting sparks the modern Nessie legend
1933-05-02
Surgeon's Photograph published, later revealed as hoax
1934
Annual Loch Ness Monster search using modern technology
2023
Creature encounter reported in Flatwoods, West Virginia
1952-09-12
Media coverage; military investigates
1952-09-13
Project Blue Book files the case as 'unidentified'
1952-09
Flatwoods becomes a UFO lore landmark
1960s–present
Modern Bigfoot era begins with Humboldt County footprints
1958
Patterson-Gimlin film shot at Bluff Creek
1967-10-20
Digital photography and DNA analysis fail to find proof
2000s–present
New DNA studies continue to find no unknown primate DNA
2024
Teddworth Drummer case (England's earliest poltergeist report)
1662
Bell Witch haunting in Tennessee
1817–1820
Rosenheim Poltergeist investigated by German physicists
1967
Enfield Poltergeist investigated by SPR
1977–1979
First incidents reported at the Hodgson home in Enfield
1977-08
SPR investigators arrive to document the case
1977-09
Media coverage intensifies; BBC films documentary
1978
Phenomena subside; case closed by SPR
1979
The Conjuring 2 dramatizes the case
2016
Operation Olympic Games reportedly begins under President Bush
2005–2006
Stuxnet deployed but code contains bugs; some centrifuges destroyed
2008
Stuxnet discovered by Belarusian security firm VirusBlokAda
2010-06
Symantec publishes detailed Stuxnet analysis
2010-09
New York Times reveals Operation Olympic Games
2012
Iraq War coverage cited as confirmation of the model
2002–2003
Debate continues about the model's relevance in the internet age
2000s–present
Debris discovered on Brazel's ranch
1947
Initial press release claims 'flying disc'
1947
Air Force report identifies debris as Project Mogul
1994
Area 51 established for U-2 testing
1955
Bob Lazar goes public with claims
1989
CIA officially acknowledges Area 51
2013
MKUltra program approved
1953
Helms orders destruction of MKUltra documents
1973
Church Committee reveals MKUltra to public
1975
COINTELPRO begins targeting communist groups
1956
Program expanded to civil rights and anti-war groups
1960s
Program exposed and officially ended
1971
Illuminati founded in Bavaria
1776
Society suppressed by Bavarian government
1785
Illuminati conspiracy theories emerge
1797
Plato writes about Atlantis
360 BCE
Donnelly's 'Atlantis' published
1882
Gobekli Tepe constructed
9600 BCE
Site deliberately buried
8000 BCE
Klaus Schmidt begins excavations
1994
Federal Reserve Act passed
1913
Stock market crash
1929
Financial crisis and Fed bailouts
2008
Bank of England founded
1694
Federal Reserve created
1913
Panama Papers published
2016
DeFeo murders six family members at 112 Ocean Avenue
1974-11-13
Lutz family moves into the house
1975-12-18
Lutz family flees after 28 days
1976-01-14
The Amityville Horror book published
1977
Film adaptation released
1979
Journalist exposes fabrications in the story
2005
Moody publishes 'Life After Life' popularizing NDE research
1975
Greyson develops standardized NDE scale
1990s
AWARE study begins at 15 UK/US hospitals
2008
AWARE study results published
2014
AWARE-II study results published
2023
Stevenson begins systematic study of past-life memory cases
1960
Stevenson publishes 'Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation'
1974
Tucker continues research with modern methodology
2000s
Tucker publishes 'Return to Life' summarizing cases
2013
Puthoff and Targ begin remote viewing research at SRI
1972
PEAR Lab begins decade-long research program
1979
CIA terminates Stargate; acknowledges some statistical significance
1995
Ongoing research by IONS and independent laboratories
2020s
Loftus publishes landmark research on false memory formation
1980s
Broome coins the term 'Mandela Effect' at Dragon Con
2009
Mandela Effect spreads widely on social media
2010s
Bostrom publishes 'Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?'
2003
Musk states probability of base reality is billions to one
2016
Ongoing philosophical and scientific debate
2020s
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down by Soviets, increasing tensions
1983-09-01
Petrov prevents erroneous retaliatory strike during false alarm
1983-09-26
Able Archer 83 exercise begins
1983-11-02
Exercise concludes; Soviet alert defused
1983-11-11
Documents declassified revealing the severity of the crisis
1990s
Goldsboro B-52 crash; nuclear bomb nearly detonates
1961-01-24
Cuban Missile Crisis; Soviet sub nearly launches nuclear torpedo
1962-10-27
NORAD false alarm due to training tape error
1979-11-09
Petrov incident: Soviet false alarm correctly judged
1983-09-26
Norwegian rocket incident triggers Russian nuclear alert
1995-01-25
City of San Francisco bans facial recognition by city agencies
2018
EU proposes AI Act, first comprehensive AI regulation
2021
ChatGPT released, spurring global debate about AI capabilities
2022
Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google to warn about AI risks
2023
EU AI Act passed
2024
Doudna and Charpentier publish CRISPR-Cas9 method
2012
First CRISPR clinical trial approved in China
2015
He Jiankui announces CRISPR-edited babies Lulu and Nana
2018
Nobel Prize awarded to Doudna and Charpentier
2020
First CRISPR therapy (Casgevy) approved by UK and US regulators
2023
Bitcoin whitepaper published by Satoshi Nakamoto
2008-10-31
Ethereum mainnet launches with smart contracts
2015-07
Ethereum transitions to proof-of-stake (The Merge)
2022-09
FTX collapses, sparking regulatory crackdown
2022-11
Shor's algorithm proves quantum computers could factor large numbers
1994
Google claims quantum supremacy with Sycamore processor
2019-10
IBM unveils 1,121-qubit Condor processor
2023
NIST publishes post-quantum cryptography standards
2024
Study begins; participants recruited for 'bad blood' treatment
1932
Study exposed in Washington Star
1972
President Clinton apologizes
1997
Tuskegee cited in COVID-19 vaccine hesitation debates
2020–2021
Downing Street Memo states intelligence being 'fixed around the policy'
2002-07
U.K. publishes 'dodgy dossier' on Iraqi WMDs
2002-09
Colin Powell presents WMD case to the UN Security Council
2003-02-05
Invasion of Iraq begins
2003-03-19
Senate Intelligence Committee and Butler Review find intelligence failures
2004-07
Duelfer Report concludes no WMD stockpiles
2005-01
IRA runs social media influence operations targeting U.S. voters
2014–2016
U.S. presidential election; social media manipulation revealed
2016-11
Cambridge Analytica scandal breaks
2018-03
Haugen leaks Facebook internal documents
2021-10
Project Cirrus hurricane modification experiments
1947
Project Stormfury begins
1962
Operation Popeye: cloud seeding in Vietnam
1967–1972
ENMOD treaty prohibits environmental modification for hostile purposes
1978
Chemtrail conspiracy theory emerges
1990s
Model applied to Balkans and Gulf War coverage
1990s
Iraq War coverage analyzed extensively through model lens
2003
Ongoing debate about model's relevance in digital age
2020s
WEF founded by Klaus Schwab
1971
The Great Reset initiative announced
2020
Great Reset conspiracy theories spread globally
2021
Several politicians incorporate anti-WEF rhetoric into campaigns
2023
Cypherpunk manifesto published by Eric Hughes
1993
Nick Szabo publishes Bit Gold concept
1998
Bitcoin whitepaper published under Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym
2008-10-31
Bitcoin genesis block mined; Satoshi's final known communication in 2011
2009-01-03
Satoshi's last known public communication
2010-12
Federal Reserve established
1913
Bretton Woods system established
1944
U.S. ends dollar-gold convertibility (Nixon Shock)
1971
Bank of England publishes 'Money Creation in the Modern Economy'
2014
Pacific Railroad Act signed by Lincoln; construction begins
1862
Crédit Mobilier scheme operates at peak
1867–1868
Transcontinental railroad completed at Promontory Point
1869-05-10
Crédit Mobilier Congressional investigation
1872
Interstate Commerce Act begins regulating railroad monopolies
1887
Magna Carta establishes London's self-governing rights
1215
Glorious Revolution establishes financial supremacy of Parliament and the City
1688
Bank of England founded to manage national debt
1694
London becomes the world's financial center
19th century
Big Bang deregulation of London financial markets
1986
Fleischmann and Pons announce cold fusion at press conference
1989-03-23
Multiple labs fail to replicate; cold fusion discredited
1989-05
Ongoing LENR research in Japan, Italy, US Navy
1990s–2000s
Google publishes multi-lab study finding no evidence
2019
Pogue carburetor claimed 200 MPG, never commercialized
1930s
Tom Ogle demonstrates 100 MPG system
1977
Stanley Meyer dies suddenly after alleged suppression
1998-03
Rising gas prices revive interest in suppressed engine claims
2008
Tesla experiments with plant electrical stimulation
1890s
Dorothy Retallack's 'The Sound of Music and Plants' published
1970s
Korean and Japanese research on frequency-specific growth effects
2000s
UC study on plant music responses published
2009
First reported sighting near Little Miami River
1955
Officer Shockey reports creature on road
1972-03-03
Second officer reports the same creature
1972-03-04
Occasional sightings continue
1970s–present
Tombstone Epitaph reports giant bird in Arizona
1890
Lawndale, IL: giant bird grabs toddler, community in panic
1977-07-25
Alaska sighting of giant bird (wingspan estimated at 15 feet)
2001
First written account of a sauropod-like creature in the Congo
1776
Mackal leads first major Mokele-mbembe expedition
1981
Ropen expeditions in Papua New Guinea
2000s
Modern expeditions with trail cameras fail to find evidence
2010s
First Fresno Nightcrawler video posted online
2011
Videos continue to circulate; no debunk or confession
2011–present
Russia invades Ukraine after months of disinformation campaigns
2022-02-24
Ongoing disinformation operations documented by fact-checkers
2022-02–present
EU bans RT and Sputnik for disinformation
2022-03
Japanese Unit 731 conducts human experiments
1937–1945
U.S. biological weapons program established
1942
President Nixon ends U.S. offensive bioweapons program
1969
Biological Weapons Convention signed
1972
Sverdlovsk anthrax release confirms Soviet bioweapons production
1979
Alibek defects and reveals Soviet bioweapons program continued after treaty signature
1992
First phase: circular ditch and bank constructed
3000 BCE
Bluestones transported from Wales; sarsen circle erected
2500 BCE
Final phase of construction
1500 BCE
Major restoration and re-erection of fallen stones
1901–1964
Estimated creation date of the artifacts
250 BCE
Discovered at Khujut Rabu, near Baghdad
1936
König publishes the battery hypothesis
1938
Debate continues; no consensus reached
2000s
OSS established under William Donovan
1942
OSS dissolved by President Truman
1945-10
National Security Act creates the CIA
1947-07-26
CIA conducts first major covert operation in Italian elections
1948
CIA orchestrates Iran coup (Operation Ajax)
1953
Churchill War Rooms become operational
1938
Kingsway exchange built under High Holborn
1940s
Burlington bunker constructed at Corsham
1950s
Most bunkers declassified or decommissioned
1990s–2000s
UFO sighted over Westall School
1966-04-06
Media coverage suppressed or downplayed
1966-04-07
Department of Air issues weather balloon explanation
1966-04
Documentary 'Westall 66' released with witness testimony
2021
Wow! Signal detected by Big Ear telescope
1977-08-15
Ehman discovers the signal on printout
1977-08-17
Comet hypothesis proposed (contested)
2017
Ongoing analysis; no definitive explanation
2020s
Plantard creates the Priory of Sion
1956
Plantard deposits forged documents in French National Library
1960s
'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' published
1982
Plantard admits hoax under oath
1993
'The Da Vinci Code' published
2003
Knights Templar founded in Jerusalem
1119
Order formally recognized by the Catholic Church
1129
Mass arrest of Templars in France
1307-10-13
Order dissolved by Pope Clement V
1312
Jacques de Molay burned at the stake
1314
Alleged birth of Christian Rosenkreutz
1378
Fama Fraternitatis published
1614
Confessio Fraternitatis published
1615
Chymical Wedding published
1616
AMORC founded in the United States
1915
Golden Dawn founded in London
1888
Order flourishes with prominent members
1890s
Crowley-Mathers conflict begins (Battle of Blythe Road)
1900
Order effectively dissolved
1903
Golden Dawn teachings influence Wicca and modern occultism
20th century
Thule Society founded in Munich
1918
Society funds the German Workers' Party
1919
DAP becomes the Nazi Party
1920
Beer Hall Putsch; Thule members involved
1923
Thule Society dissolved
1925
Green children appear near Woolpit, Suffolk
1135–1154
Ralph of Coggeshall records the story
1180s
William of Newburgh records the story
1190s
Men leave home, telling family they will meet a UFO
1966-08-20
Bodies discovered on Morro do Vintém
1966-08-22
Autopsy inconclusive; case remains open
1966-08
Frau Troffea begins dancing in Strasbourg
1518-07-14
Dancing spreads to hundreds within weeks
1518-07
Authorities build stage and hire musicians
1518-08
Plague subsides
1518-09
Mechanism constructed (estimated date)
100 BCE
Shipwreck off Antikythera
70–60 BCE
Mechanism discovered by sponge divers
1901
Price begins systematic study
1951
Modern CT scanning reveals full complexity
2005–2021
Kadzov disappears from Vodka village
2001
Government investigation; case remains unsolved
2001
Reich claims discovery of orgone energy
1930s
Reich builds orgone accumulators and cloudbusters
1940s
FDA files injunction against Reich
1954
FDA burns Reich's books and devices
1956
Reich dies in federal prison
1957
Fedyakin reports anomalous water properties
1962
Deryagin publishes polywater findings in English
1966
Rousseau demonstrates polywater is contamination
1969
Polywater research abandoned
1970s
Blondlot announces discovery of N-rays
1903
Wood visits Blondlot's lab and debunks the phenomenon
1904
N-ray research collapses
1904–1905
Shawyer proposes the EM Drive concept
2001
NASA Eagleworks reports anomalous thrust
2014
NASA publishes results in peer-reviewed journal
2016
Dresden study attributes thrust to thermal effects
2021
Ballard discovers Titanic wreckage
1985
MH370 disappears; deep-sea search reveals ocean mapping gaps
2014
ICNIRP updates safety guidelines for 5G frequencies
2020
Ongoing debate about health effects and regulation
2020s
MOL program begins (declassified 1980s)
1963
ARPANET, precursor to the internet, established
1969
World Wide Web becomes publicly available
1991
Tor network launched by US Naval Research Lab
2002
Snowden reveals NSA internet surveillance programs
2013
Stasi expands to become pervasive surveillance state
1960s–1980s
Stasi dissolved
1990
Stasi Records Law gives citizens access to files
1991
Eichmann captured in Argentina
1960
Operation Wrath of God after Munich massacre
1972–1973
Operation Solomon rescues Ethiopian Jews
1991
Stuxnet and Iranian scientist assassinations
2010s
Zinoviev Letter forgeries influence UK election
1924
KGB active measures program at peak
1960s–1980s
Operation INFEKTION spreads AIDS disinformation
1980s
Mitrokhin Archive reveals scale of active measures
1992
Russian intelligence continues active measures in digital age
2010s
First FRB discovered in archival Parkes data
2007
First repeating FRB (FRB 121102) discovered
2012
FRB 121102 traced to a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away
2017
FRB detected from within the Milky Way, confirming magnetar origin
2020
Fermi poses the paradox during a lunch conversation
1950
Drake formulates the Drake Equation
1961
Hart publishes formal analysis of the paradox
1975
Theory gains popularity in SETI and philosophy discussions
2010s
Ongoing debate about the ethics of METI (Messaging to ETI)
2020s
Alleged EHM operations begin
1950s
Perkins publishes 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man'
2004
Augustus uses coinage as imperial propaganda
27 BCE
Luther's 95 Theses spread via printing press
1517
US Creel Committee established
1917
Goebbels appointed Propaganda Minister
1933
First convincing deepfake videos appear
2017
Deepfake used in political interference attempt
2020
AI-generated audio deepfake in $25M fraud
2023
Gerbner develops cultivation theory
1970s
Satanic Panic peaks
1980s
Crack baby panic
1990s
Bernays pioneers PR techniques
1920s
Tobacco industry astroturfing peaks
1990s
Digital astroturfing with bot networks
2010s
ICNIRP updates guidelines
2020
ARPANET established
1969
Tor network launched
2002
Snowden reveals NSA surveillance
2013
Ballard discovers Titanic
1985
Stasi Records Law passed
1991
Eichmann captured
1960
Operation Wrath of God
1972-1973
Zinoviev Letter forgeries
1924
Operation INFEKTION
1980s
Mitrokhin Archive revealed
1992
First FRB discovered
2007
First repeating FRB discovered
2012
FRB from Milky Way confirms magnetar origin
2020
Fermi poses the paradox
1950
Drake formulates the equation
1961
Theory gains popularity in SETI discussions
2010s
