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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.
- 1996STS-75 tether "UFOs"UFOs & Aliens
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-75, the 19th flight of the orbiter, carrying the Tethered Satellite System Reflight (TSS-1R), a joint NASA and Italian Space Agency experiment, along with the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-3). Franklin Chang-Diaz flies as payload commander.
- 2021TWA Flight 800Government & Intelligence
The NTSB announces it will decommission the reassembled TWA 800 wreckage, kept for two decades as a training aid, and dispose of the recovered pieces respectfully. Investigators reaffirm the fuel-tank finding.
Drawn from 1,970 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.