The archive, day by day
On this day in conspiracies
The dated turning points behind the case files: assassinations, crashes, leaks, votes, and the moments a theory was born, each drawn straight from a file's sourced timeline. We only place an entry on a day the record actually names.
- 1997Phoenix LightsUFOs & Aliens
Arizona Governor Fife Symington's office is flooded with calls; local news airs amateur video of both events, and the story goes national within days.
- 2002Lockerbie bombingGovernment & Intelligence
Megrahi's first appeal against conviction is refused.
- 200411-M was ETA (conspiracy theory)Government & Intelligence
In the general election, the Socialists (PSOE) under Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero defeat the governing People's Party, reversing pre-attack polling. The result, and the government's ETA attribution, become permanently entangled in the dispute over the bombing.
- 2023The secret AGIScience, Space & Technology
OpenAI releases GPT-4, which posts strong scores on professional and academic exams. A widely circulated Microsoft Research paper calls its abilities 'sparks of artificial general intelligence,' a phrase believers later read far more literally than its authors intended.
Drawn from 1,967 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.