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On this day in conspiracies
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- 1965The Kecksburg UFO IncidentUFOs & Aliens
Around 4:45 p.m. EST a brilliant fireball crosses the sky, reported by people in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and parts of Canada, and seen over Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. It reportedly drops hot metal debris that starts small grass fires in Michigan and Ohio and produces sonic booms.
- 2016Russian Olympic dopingHoaxes & Pop Culture
The second part of the McLaren Report concludes that more than 1,000 Russian athletes across dozens of sports benefited from the concealment scheme between 2011 and 2015, and presents forensic evidence of scratches and marks on sample-bottle caps.
Drawn from 1,967 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.