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Your Daily Science follows new discoveries and famous mysteries, and separates what is documented from what is only claimed. We take every question seriously and always show our working.
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Famous UFO Cases Explained: What Investigators Found
Were famous UFO cases explained? Mostly yes. Official studies traced most reports to planes, balloons, stars and weather, and a small share stayed unknown.
Why Redacted Files Fuel Conspiracy Theories
Why blacked-out government pages invite cover-up theories, how redaction works, and what the 2025 JFK release does and does not prove.
Shag Harbour 1967: What Happened, and What Is Still Unknown
A lit object reportedly fell into Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, in October 1967. What the records show, and why the case remains officially unidentified.
Test yourself
Check it yourself
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Real or Rigged?
Famous historic photos and the hoaxes behind them. Some were faked, some unbelievable ones are real.
Open the archiveLabTrust Your Eyes?
Six classic visual illusions, redrawn. Answer first, then remove the context yourself and see what your brain was doing.
Open the labInvestigationThe Case Room
An interactive investigation: stories, debates, quizzes and a comic drawn from your answers.
Open the caseStories20 UFO Sightings and What Really Happened
Searchlights over Los Angeles, Roswell’s balloon and the Navy’s Tic Tac, with what the files say, as tap-through stories.
Watch the storiesLibraryThe Free Evidence Library
Free science courses, textbooks, open data and ways to help real scientists, plus a quick checker for a claim you saw today.
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Fact or fiction?
“The flag planted on the Moon waved because there was wind.”
FictionA horizontal rod along the top edge held the flag out. It moved only while the astronauts twisted the pole into the ground, then hung still. With no air to slow it, the fabric kept swinging longer than it would on Earth.
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