Conspiracy Clearinghouse
A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turned out, in fact, to be true. This is the podcast that dares to look behind the curtain that’s behind the curtain. Episodes every other Wednesday.
A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turned out, in fact, to be true. This is the podcast that dares to look behind the curtain that’s behind the curtain. Episodes every other Wednesday.
Episodes

7 days ago
Bohemian Books: Gigas, Voynich & Soyga
7 days ago
7 days ago
EPISODE 157 | Bohemian Books: Gigas, Voynich & Soyga
Some very old books have an air of mystery and intrigue about them. Partly, that’s because they are literally hundreds of years old, and partly because of the weird things they contain.
Today, we’ll take a look at three, all of which have a connection to the Czech Republic and Prague: the biggest book in the world, the Codex Gigas (also known as the Devil’s Bible and which features heavily [no pun intended] in Dan Brown’s latest schlock fest), the utterly baffling Voynich Manuscript, which is not written in any recognizable language; and the mysterious Book of Soyga, which disappeared for nearly 400 years, and some say that if you can decipher the final puzzles in the book, you will die.
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02:11 - The Codex Gigas - That's a big book, contents, legend of origin, Sweden gets it, defenestrations, the Sedlec Bone Church, The Secret of Secrets
11:00 - The Voynich Manuscript - WTF is this thing?, ownership relay, who maybe wrote it, what maybe it says, aspects of Voynichese, obscure languages, steganography, glossolalia, outsider art, a hoax, radiocarbon dating, those who have claimed decipherment, ciphers, people see what they want to, goropism, the Sun Language Theory, recent videos about Alphafold and protein folding, maybe a work of proto-fiction
43:32 - The Book of Soyga - John Dee, Edward Kelley, cryptic puzzles, 400 years lost, found in 1994
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The Codex Gigas – Devil's Bible on the National Library of Sweden website
The Devil’s Bible: My Deep Dive into the Weirdest Book I’ve Ever Seen
Devil's Bible: Codex Gigas in Klementinum on Prague.net from 2007 loan
Inside the ‘Devil’s Bible,’ the Largest Medieval Manuscript Ever Made on ArtNet
EPISODE 109 | What's in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Debate with Scott Jackson
EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship with Scott Jackson
What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Communicating with Jennifer King on the Digital Signage Done Right podcast
Yale Library webpage on the Voynich Manuscript, with images
The riddle of the Voynich Manuscript on the BBC
Unsolved Mystery: The Voynich Manuscript
An entire website about the Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably didn't know about the Medieval masterpiece on The Art Newspaper
THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT - "The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World" - NSA report (PDF)
Another NSA report on titled The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma written in 1978 (PDF)
A PDF of the actual Voynich Manuscript
Headcanon: The Voynich Manuscript actually doesn’t contain any cohesive text and is just a prank done by someone in the past on r/medieval
A Scholar Has Cracked the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, the Encrypted Medieval Artwork That Defeated Codebreakers for Years on ArtNet
Article on the Voynich manuscript on Brazilian website Revista Pesquisa Fapesp
The Voynich Wiki
How an Emperor Trapped a Con Man - blog on Edward kelley
Magic and Mystery: Decoding the Secrets of the Book of Soyga on Discovery
The Book of Soyga translated by Jane Kupin (PDF)
Decoding the Book of Soyga: A Living Project of Esoteric Discovery
The Book of Soyga | Literary History on House of Cadmus
Soyga: the book that kills on Blog of Wonders
Holy Conversations: The Impact of the Mysterious Book of Soyga on Ancient Origins
Book of Soyga on the Voynich Wiki
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Wednesday Feb 11, 2026
The Shape of Water: Loch Ness and Other Lake Monsters
Wednesday Feb 11, 2026
Wednesday Feb 11, 2026
EPISODE 156 | The Shape of Water: Loch Ness and Other Lake Monsters
People have been talking about a supposed water creature in the Scottish Highlands for at least 93 years, possible much longer. Everyone has heard of the Loch Ness Monster, and Nessie is one of the OGs of the cryptid world. But there are plenty of other, similar reports from around the world as well, like Ogopogo, Manipogo, Cressie, Kushii, Nahuelito and even one named Larry.
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01:21 - Down to the Waterline - First sightings of Nessie; photos, corpses, hoaxes and jokes
16:19 - Creature from the Black Lagoon - The Wels catfish, Loch Ness is weird, serious expeditions, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, Operation Deepscan, a DNA survey of the loch, eels, Norag, Muc-sheilche, kelpie, Life of St. Columba, Fredrick William Holiday and The Great Orm of Loch Ness (and more)
32:10 - Lake of Fire - Sea serpents, Hydrarchos, Canada's Ogopogo
40:20 - Down by the Water - Igopogo (or Bessie), Manipogo, Winnepogo, Memphré, Champ, Mussie, Cressie, Chessie, the Turtle Lake Monster, the Seelkee
48:05 - Song of the Lake - Mokele-mbembe, the Great Zimbabwe Theory
51:08 - Don't Drink the Water - Lukwata, Nsanga, Nyami Nyami, Irizma, Kusshii, the Lake Tianchi Monster, Phaya Naga, Seri Gumum, the Bunyip, the Muldjewangk, the Hawkesbury River Monster, the Maningrida Monster (Mannie), the Taniwha, the Tsmok, Anguila Peluda, the Lariosauro (Larry), the Lagarfljót Worm, the Gryttie, the Zegrze Reservoir Monster, Teggie, the the Devil Whale of Lake Tota, Nahuelito, people naturally attach to stories
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Episode 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
Episode 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update
Loch Ness monster on Britannica
The Loch Ness Monster Turns 83: The Story of The Surgeon’s Photograph
The Beast of Loch Ness pages on Nova Online
Loch Ness Monster on Non-alien Creatures Wiki
Lake Monsters on Cryptid Wiki
The Lake Monsters of America on Atlas Obscura (with map)
Lake Monsters on A Book of Creatures
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Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Mummy Mia: King Tut's Tomb
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
EPISODE 155 | Mummy Mia: King Tut's Tomb
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
Since its discovery in 1922, the tomb of King Tut has captivated people, with research simply leading to more questions? How did he die? Was he murdered? Was he really born in Arizona and later moved to Babylonia? And is there a curse?
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03:09 - The discovery, the Curse of the Pharaohs, the Toxic Tomb theory
13:47 - The first autopsy (1925), the Boy King; mummies were not worth much; the second autopsy with X-rays (1968), was he murdered?; the third autopsy (2005) with CAT scans; accidental death?, walking canes, did he have a clubfoot?
24:06 - A new investigation, new evidence, a new theory
30:44 - Hidden chambers in the tomb, possibly Nefertiti, underground scans
36:01 - The mass appeal of historical treasures, Deir el-Medina - the lost village of the artisans and the Great Pit
43:25 - The Egyptians and the West have an uneasy history, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
45:35 - Egypt is his obsession
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Episode 59 - Atlas Sank: Titanic Conspiracies
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
Prime Time novels
Neil Laird on IMDb
Lost Treasures of Egypt (2019-2025)
Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Tomb (2022)
Tut's Toxic Tomb (2022)
Tut: A Century of Secrets (2022)
Tut's Lost City Revealed (2022)
Valley of the Queens (2021)
Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs (2021)
Lost Tombs of the Pyramids (2020)
Cleopatra: Sex, Lies and Secrets (2020)
Tut's Final Secrets (2020)
Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs (2019)
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)
Egypt: What Lies Beneath (2011)
National Geographic: King Tut's Final Secrets (2005)
Into the Great Pyramid (2002)
Saving the Sphinx (1998)
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Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
Forgotten Languages (FL): The Most Interesting Site on the Web?
Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
EPISODE 154 | Forgotten Languages (FL): The Most Interesting Site on the Web?
While researching a previous episode about internet rabbit holes, I came across one that was some big, so complicated, that the entry soon grew into its very own episode. It's called Forgotten Languages, and at first it seems like it's all about ancient languages. But these turn out to be ciphers which, when decoded, reveal a series of interlocking narratives involving transdimensional beings, UAPs, aliens, secretive cabals working at cross purposes, the odd revelation that all humans are gone by the year 3100, and more.
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02:00 - Speaking in Tongues - The Forgotten Languages website at first glance, using clues to start to understand, language as a system to modify biology
13:36 - Aliens Ate My Buick - Giselians, the Cassini Diskus, Paradigm Shifter Vehicles (PSVs)
18:55 - Nature of Threat - The Phoenix Lights, MilOrbs, USOs, SV17q, SV09n's agendas, SV06n seems nicer, the default mode network (DMN), geminoviruses in the year 2100
33:55 - Jigsaw Falling into Place - DRACO, Congressional UAP hearings, Matthew Brown blows the whistle on Immaculate Constellation and a secretive group (SV17q?), DOLYN; Michael Shellenberger specifically mentions NURO, Immaculate Constellation and SV17q to Congress; Denebian probes, LyAV, XVIS
44:46 - Hoist That Rag - Alternative Reality games, Dispatches from Elsewhere, "The Beast", the SCP Foundation, other theories about FL
48:36 - Language Is a Virus - Various theories about what FL is really all about, the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), hyperstitions
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Forgotten Languages website
ForgottenLanguages.org — another linguistic rabbit hole on Reddit
The Deepest Internet Mystery You've Never Heard Of (and Why It’s Now in the Congressional Record) video on the smoothjazz YouTube channel
My emails with Ayndryl by Saša Milić
Forgotten Languages entire subreddit
The Pattern Everyone's Missing While Debating "Dee's Nuts" on the r/UFOs subreddit
Dispatches from Elsewhere on IMDb
SCP Foundation website
Cybernetic culture research unit website
Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) on Philosophyball WIki
Forward? A Short History of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit by Samuel McIlhagga
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Thursday Jan 01, 2026
Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (WIW 16)
Thursday Jan 01, 2026
Thursday Jan 01, 2026
EPISODE 153 | Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (World Is Weird 16)
One reason conspiracy theories flourish is that sometimes there really are secrets kept back from the public, only revealed later. Take Broken Arrows - accidents involving nuclear weapons, near-misses that could have become incredibly serious but, fortunately, didn’t.
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02:45 - Intro - A brief history of nukes, US military flagwords and other terminology
07:54 - We Will All Go Together When We Go - 1950s incidents
25:33 - We'll Meet Again - 1960s incidents
39:01 - Atomic Dog - Incidents in the 1970s and 1980s
46:23 - Champagne Supernova - Incidents in the 1990s to present, the Doomsday Clock
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents on the Atomic Archive
United States military nuclear incident terminology on Wikipedia
List of military nuclear accidents on Wikipedia
The Doomsday Clock
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Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
Internet Rabbit Holes (1)
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
EPISODE 152 | Internet Rabbit Holes (1)
Once in a while, someone comes across a website that creeps them out, or confuses them so much they start to ask others about it and, before you know it, an internet rabbit hole has formed. Today, we’ll take a look at a few of these internet mysteries that sure got tongues wagging and finger flying over keyboards. Though almost always, the answer that’s found, if there is one, is disappointing.
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03:26 - The Backrooms - An internet sensation, 99rooms
11:26 - Mortis - Terabytes of confusion
18:03 - Exit Mundi and Death Date - Also Death Clock
20:58 - Zombo - Who knows?
23:48 - Sentimental Corp - Randy Prozac gets weird(er)
27:13 - Paranoia - Disney gets weird, typo squatting, Goggle, drive by downloads
35:40 - Urban Outraged - Also Surveillance Camera Man
39:30 - Lake City Quiet Pills - What's in the code
46:20 - 973-eht-namuh-973 - David Dennison's mind-breaking project
Music By Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The Backrooms Wiki
This is the THE BEST Backrooms Game I've Ever Played video
The Backrooms (Found Footage) video by Kevin Pixels
99 Rooms [walkthrough] 2004 Flash game video
mortis.cc website
Exit Mundi archive page
The Death Clock
Death Date
Zombo
Sentimental Corp
paranoia.com
Paranoia.com: An Internet Mystery video on the Nexpo YouTube channel
Urban Outraged
Why does everyone hate Surveillance Camera Man? video
The Mystery of Surveillance Camera Man Explained video
The Lake City Quiet Pills Mystery on Know Your Meme
Lake City Quiet Pills video on The Rabbit Hole YouTube channel
Lake City Ammunition Plant website
973-eht-namuh-973
973 eht namuh Explained: My Look Into The Internets Most Mysterious Website - Elder's Vault original investigation video
I finally understand it. The answer is not what I expected post
973-Eht-Namuh-973.com The Oracle Forum
The Internet's Most Mysterious Websites video on Visual Venture YouTube channel (Lake City Quiet Pills, Time Cube, Mortis, Zombo, Sentimental Corp, OCT282011, Enricks.Angelfire, 973-eht-namuh-973)
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Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Global Warming Is Real
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
EPISODE 151 | Global Warming Is Real
Guest: Thomas Schueneman, environmental journalist, founder of the PlanetWatch Group, TDS Environmental Media and GlobalWarmingisReal.com
A chat about some of the more pervasive and commonplace climate change skepticism claims and just some general kvetching about where we are in this conversation these days.
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Global Warming Is Real website
Global Warming Is Real podcast
TDS Environmental Network
PlanetWatch website
Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)
The Great Replacement: The White Wing Goes Mainstream
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Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Operation Gemstone & the Gemstone File
Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
EPISODE 150 | Operation Gemstone & the Gemstone File
Very often sheer naked greed is hidden behind a glossy finish of virtue, something we can plainly see in the stories of two Gemstones from the conspiracy world – G. Gordon Liddy’s whacked out Operation Gemstone plans to help Richard Nixon get reelected, and the outlandish and complicated Gemstone File, which might be the very first mega-conspiracy.
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01:58 - Operation Gemstone - Nixon in politics, Nixon really wanted to be re-elected, Operation Sandwedge, G. Gordon Liddy has ideas, a discussion about the fate of Jack Anderson, the Watergate break-in
17:39 - The Gemstone File - Authorship issues: "Bruce Porter Roberts", Mae Brussell, Stephanie Caruana, Factsheet Five finds a connection to CREEP
24:03 - The theory: Aristotle Onassis, Joe Kennedy, Meyer Lansky, Eugene Meyer and more; Howard Hughes get kidnapped, injured, doubled; Onassis hates Castro, Onassis hated the Kennedy brothers, RFK exposes Cosa Nostra, "sodium morphate", Onassis and mafia guys killed JFK, Onassis then owned LBJ
40:02 - The JFK conspirators move on, Onassis took out RFK, got the girl, got Nixon in office, Gerald Ford in the frame, "government as theater", the Group of 40 given to Kissinger, Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick
46:12 - Diamonds and Pearls - More deals, more deaths and a lot of money, the Onassis corpro-mafia syndicate fractures after his death, the Mormon Mafia leaked dirt, the Pentagon papers were fake, more deaths and more money, the Brezhnev flu, maybe becomes the Octopus?
Music By Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
G. Gordon Liddy: Watergate’s Most Colorful Character on Politico
Notorious GEMSTONE Meeting in Attorney General’s Office: Illegal Activities Planned
How G. Gordon Liddy Bungled Watergate With an Office-Supply Request
Full text of "G. Gordon Liddy, Will : The Autobiography Of G. Gordon Liddy (1980)"
G. Gordon Liddy Describes GEMSTONE, the Plan He Presents to John Mitchell in 1972 video
Operation Gemstone The Dark Secrets Unveiled video on the Outlaw News Network YouTube channel
Gemstone meeting clip from TV show Gaslit
Trailer for TV series White House Plumbers
Part One: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate video from the Behind the Bastards podcast
G. Gordon Liddy's Hardcore Tips For Prison on David Letterman
A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File full text, formatted
The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File article
Gemstone File blog
Real Gemstone File blog
Is Howard Hughes Dead and Buried Off a Greek Island? in Playgirl by Stephanie Caruana
Who Really Calls the Shots? Bruce Roberts and The Gemstone File
The Gemstone File by Jim Keith full text
The Gemstone File: A Memoir by Stephanie Caruana on Amazon
Project Seek: Onassis, Kennedy and the Gemstone thesis by Gerald Carroll on Amazon
Greatest Conspiracy Theory Ever? A deep dive into The Gemstone File (1975) video on Control Alt History YouTube channel
More Gemstone notions - The Opal File: The Financial Takeover of Australia and New Zealand
Possible sequel to Gemstone: The Octopus - EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
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Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Russian Dolls: Rasputin and Blavatsky
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
EPISODE 149 | Russian Dolls: Rasputin and Blavatsky
Russians are practical, artistic and deeply mystical. And they tend to fall under the sway of strong personalities. Like two people from the past - Rasputin, the so-called Mad Monk, and Helena Blavatsky, founded of Theosophy, which itself is the very root of the modern New Age movement.
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02:31 - Ra-Ra-Rasputin - The story of the Mad Monk, his weird death and his penis
17:31 - So You Think You're a Witch? - Helena Blavatsky goes form spoiled rich girl to wandering mystic, starts Theosophy, Emma and Alexis Coulomb try blackmail, the Hodgeson Report
29:01 - Rivers of Babylon - Theosophy's offbeat ideas about inherent mystic powers, the Seven Root Races
41:05 - Sorcerer's Puppet - Theosophy inspires others, Nazis, Neo-Theosophy, Agni Yoga, the I AM Activity, the Bridge to Freedom and the Great White Brotherhood
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Rasputin on biography.com
The Murder of Rasputin
Rasputin Was Poisoned, Shot, Beaten, and Drowned. But Did His Penis Survive?
Inside The Wild Myths And Legends Surrounding Rasputin’s Penis
HELENA BLAVATSKY The evolution of Theosophy
The birth of theosophy
Who Was the Mother of the Occult? (Part I) - Episode #66 of the Our Fake History podcast
Madame Blavatsky: a seeker of truth — and a fraud
The Dawn of Civilization: An Esoteric Account of the First Three Root Races
Chains, Globes, Rounds and Root Races
Theosophy: Origin of the New Age (Part 1)
The theosophical roots of Nazism
Theosophy and visual arts
Influences on the New Age movement
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Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
The Visitors: 3I/ATLAS & Friends
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
EPISODE 148 | The Visitors: 3I/ATLAS & Friends
Something is happening right now that maybe we should all pay at least a little bit of attention to.It’s time to break out the nice dishes and give the place a good dusting, because we have company folks. We have a visitor.
Probably a comet. But maybe not, according to some. Maybe it's an alien spaceship with bad intent. And it’s coming to get us.
UPDATE: Nothing happened. What a surprise.
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03:21 - Wanderlust - 1I/ʻOumuamua, Avi Loeb, solar sails, technosignatures, 2I/Borisov, astronomical units (AUs)
12:56 - Poor Fractured Atlas - Avi Loeb gets into UAP, the ATLAS detection system, 3I/ATLAS, "normal" comets, maybe a planet seed
22:08 - Calling All Comets - 3I/ATLAS starts acting weird, the Dark Forest Hypothesis, an interstellar highway, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), nickel and iron
30:20 - In My House - A Mars flyby, the US government shuts down and conspiracy theories fill the void, a recap of weirdness, why it does not have "military implications"
39:15 - Supermassive Black Hole - The Overview Effect, real dangers, more stuff is probably coming
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
The Uncensored Guide To ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, And That Harvard Astronomer in Forbes
ʻOumuamua on RationalWiki
New interstellar object 3I/ATLAS: Everything we know about the rare cosmic visitor on space.com
Could comet 3I/ATLAS be alien technology? Controversial Harvard astrophysicist says yes
3rd interstellar visitor confirms a cosmic highway — Earth could be in ‘someone’s trajectory’ on EcoNews
This Mysterious Object From Our Solar System Might Be a Planet-Making Seed
“Physics Doesn’t Work Anymore”: Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Traveling Backwards At 130,000 MPH Shatters Every Scientific Law
Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System
Interstellar object spotted shedding mysterious metals in way that defies science: 'It's extremely puzzling'
Are internet rumours of a comet hurtling towards Earth true?
Scientists reveal where 'alien object' heading past Earth will actually be going
3I/ATLAS is Captured in New Images as Mysterious Object Cruises Past Mars—What Does the Latest Data Reveal?
First Images of 3I/ATLAS from ExoMars TGO by Avi Loeb
Mysterious interstellar visitor spotted above Mars appears as 'massive cylindrical craft'
A Recap of the Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS on the Day of Its Closest Approach to Mars by Avi Loeb (the Trojan Horse article)
7 reasons why 3I/ATLAS's high-speed trajectory has military implications - nonsense article on Wion
Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be A 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule From An Earlier Age Of The Universe
3I/ATLAS came from mysterious frontier of Early Milky Way? Scientists study interstellar comet's origin, track trajectory, travel speed, age
Physicists detect water's ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, space agencies say
The biggest threats to Earth from space
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