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What Causes Radar Ghosts in UFO Sightings?
Radar ghosts in UFO sightings are often false echoes from temperature inversions, birds, insects, auroras or equipment faults.
What Were the 1942 Los Angeles Searchlight UFOs?
The 1942 Los Angeles searchlight UFOs were an unidentified object that drew a blackout and about 1,430 shells. Here is what the record shows.
Famous Hoax Photos: The Fakes That Fooled the World
Famous hoax photos explained: the Cottingley fairies, the Surgeon's Photo, the Reichstag flag and Baby Adolf, and how each fake was exposed.
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Famous Hoax Photos: The Fakes That Fooled the World
Famous hoax photos explained: the Cottingley fairies, the Surgeon's Photo, the Reichstag flag and Baby Adolf, and how each fake was exposed.
AI in Archaeology: Real Discoveries or Hype?
What AI has actually found in archaeology, from carbonised Herculaneum scrolls to Nazca lines and Maya lidar, and where the claims still need checking.
The Loch Ness Monster and the Surgeon's Photograph
The most famous monster photo in history was staged with a toy submarine. Here is how it was made, exposed and what science has found since.
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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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