The Conspiratory

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.

  1. 1981
    Trans-en-Provence UFOUFOs & Aliens

    GEPAN investigators, led by Jean-Jacques Velasco, visit the site roughly five to six weeks after the event. The traces are still visible; they document the area and collect further soil and wild-plant samples for laboratory analysis. This delay between the event and GEPAN's own sampling later becomes one of the case's contested points.

  2. 2002
    2002 skating judge fixHoaxes & Pop Culture

    A second medal ceremony is held. The Canadian pair receive their gold; the Russian pair attend wearing the golds they already hold. The moment is broadcast worldwide as an unprecedented remedy for a compromised result.

Drawn from 1,970 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.