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176 organisations in 75 mysteries

The institutions, companies, agencies and groups the records name, and their part in each mystery.

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All mysteries1979 Vela incident1I/'Oumuamua2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videosAntikythera MechanismArchimedes PalimpsestBall lightningBeale ciphersBermuda TriangleBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsCarnac alignmentsCascajal block and Isthmian writingCicada 3301Copiale cipherCypro-MinoanDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenanceDhofari scriptDisappearance of Amelia EarhartDorabella cipherDyatlov Pass incidentEarth flyby anomalyFast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off burstsFranklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)Gallo-Roman dodecahedraGreat Sphinx of GizaGreat houses of Chaco CanyonGunung PadangGöbekli TepeHD 139139, the "Random Transiter"Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius ChallengeHessdalen lightsHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claimsHow the Great Pyramid was builtIberian language and Palaeohispanic scriptsIndus scriptInka khipus: the knotted-cord recordsIsdal WomanKensington RunestoneKryptosLinear ALoch NessLost Colony of RoanokeMalaysia Airlines Flight MH370Marfa lightsMars methane puzzleMeroiticNazca LinesNebra Sky DiscOak Island money pitPatterson-Gimlin filmPhaistos DiscPhoenix Lights, 13 March 1997Pictish symbol stonesProto-Elamite and Linear ElamiteRendlesham Forest, December 1980Ricky McCormick's notesRohonc CodexRongorongoRoswell, 1947San José galleonSanxingdui and its sacrificial pitsShroud of TurinSkinwalker RanchSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)StonehengeTabby's star (KIC 8462852)Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)US government UAP disclosuresUVB-76, "the Buzzer"White Shaman MuralWho were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" craniumWow! signalYounger Dryas impact hypothesisZodiac ciphers
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McDonald ObservatoryUniversity of Texas observatory about 40 miles from Marfa; its astronomers took part in the 1989 watch
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Society of Physics Students, University of Texas at Dallas chapterStudent chapter that ran the May 2004 field experiments
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Sul Ross State UniversityAlpine; its physicists and chemists investigated the lights in the 1970s and 1989
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Texas State UniversitySan Marcos; home of the 2008 spectroscopy campaign and the 2011 study
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