On this day in conspiracies

Aboard HMS Bacchante off Australia, a young Prince George (the future King George V) records in a log entry that the so-called Flying Dutchman crossed the ship's bows as a strange red glow, seen by thirteen men. The account becomes the most cited alleged sighting of all.

The following night a crowd of onlookers gathers at the lake. Witnesses say a figure on a bluff let out a pitiful cry and hurled a tire and rim down toward them. The account becomes the most repeated single episode of the flap.

At the foot of Marzolf Hill, brothers Terry Harrison, 8, and Wiley Harrison, 5, are playing outside when their older sister Doris, 15, hears screaming and looks out a window. She reports seeing a large, dark, hairy figure, six or seven feet tall, that appears to be holding a dead dog. The family's own pet later becomes sick, which locals link to the creature.

A Bologna court delivers the first verdicts, convicting NAR militants Valerio Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro of the massacre and sentencing them to life, while also convicting Gelli, SISMI officers, and others of obstructing the investigation. The perpetrators are acquitted on appeal in 1990, then reconvicted in a 1994 retrial.

The Belgian Air Force holds a press conference at NATO headquarters in Evere, Brussels, led by Colonel (later Major General) Wilfried De Brouwer, its chief of operations. The military presents the radar data from the March scramble and states plainly that it cannot explain the events, while stopping short of endorsing any extraordinary conclusion. A report by Major P. Lambrechts is shared with SOBEPS.

Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) units under General Ratko Mladic overrun the enclave as the UN protection force stands aside. Tens of thousands of Bosniak civilians flee to the UN base at Potocari; thousands of men and boys attempt to escape through the woods toward Tuzla.

A false rumor that Steve Harvey has died spreads after an 'R.I.P. Steve Harvey' Facebook page gathers roughly a million likes. On 12 July his representatives confirm he is alive and well; fact-checkers note the wave was fueled by AI-generated content. It is at least the fourth Harvey death hoax.

On Saturday evening, emergency personnel respond to a report of cardiac arrest at Graham's Washington, D.C. home. He had experienced chest pains. He is pronounced dead. His office announces he died after a brief and sudden illness.

Over the weekend, a social-media user runs the authentic Atlantic clip through an AI image tool and reposts an "enhanced" version. In this edit the object appears sharper, seems to shape-shift, and then performs a sudden high-speed maneuver before darting off. The AI version, not the government file, is what goes viral as proof of an impossible craft.