On this day in conspiracies

Shortly before midnight on Saturday, Edward Nugent, an air-traffic controller at Washington National Airport, notices seven slow-moving returns on his radar roughly 15 miles south-southwest of the city, in airspace with no scheduled traffic. His superior, senior controller Harry Barnes, watches the scope and later calls the movements radically unlike ordinary aircraft.

Searchers report finding large footprints in soft ground near the hill. Plaster casts are made of some prints, described as roughly ten inches long with unusual toes. No hair, bone, or other physical remains are recovered alongside them.

At 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike releases a Rapid Response Content configuration update (Channel File 291) to its Falcon sensor on Windows. Machines that receive it and are running sensor version 7.11 or later begin crashing almost immediately into blue screens of death and boot loops. CrowdStrike reverts the update at 05:27 UTC, about 78 minutes later, but hosts that already crashed require manual remediation.

Weekend estimates land: roughly $124 million domestically from about 3,900 theaters and around $264 million worldwide, reported by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and CNBC as the biggest global opening of Nolan's career, topping The Dark Knight Rises' $249 million launch, and 2026's biggest live-action opening.

Trump attends the FIFA World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and speaks to reporters afterward. A grainy clip appears to show a heavyset man of similar complexion standing just behind him.

Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in the final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Within hours, social feeds fill with posts claiming the match was fixed, several built on fabricated images, including a doctored picture used to allege the referee was a Spain supporter.