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625 people in 95 mysteries

Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.

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All mysteries1908 Tunguska event1979 Vela incident1I/'Oumuamua2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videosAmber RoomAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026Antikythera MechanismArchimedes PalimpsestBall lightningBeale ciphersBermuda TriangleBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsCarnac alignmentsCascajal block and Isthmian writingCicada 3301Copiale cipherCretan HieroglyphicCypro-MinoanDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenanceDhofari scriptDisappearance of Amelia EarhartDorabella cipherDyatlov Pass incidentEarth flyby anomalyEaster Island moaiEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translatedEye of the Sahara and AtlantisFast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off burstsFlor de la MarFranklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)Gallo-Roman dodecahedraGreat Sphinx of GizaGreat houses of Chaco CanyonGunung PadangGöbekli TepeHD 139139, the "Random Transiter"Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archivesHerculaneum 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 builtHurrian songs of UgaritIberian language and Palaeohispanic scriptsIndus scriptInka khipus: the knotted-cord recordsKensington RunestoneKryptosLate Bronze Age collapseLinear ALoch NessLost Colony of RoanokeLost Dutchman's gold mineMalaysia Airlines Flight MH370Marfa lightsMars methane puzzleMary CelesteMeroiticMonte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"Nazca LinesNebra Sky DiscOak Island money pitPatterson-Gimlin filmPhaistos DiscPhoenix Lights, 13 March 1997Phosphine in the clouds of VenusPictish symbol stonesProto-Elamite and Linear ElamiteProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetProto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of UrukPuma Punku and TiwanakuRendlesham Forest, December 1980Ricky McCormick's notesRohonc CodexRongorongoRoswell, 1947San José galleonSanxingdui and its sacrificial pitsShroud of TurinShugborough inscriptionSkinwalker RanchSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)StonehengeStradivari "secret"Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)US government UAP disclosuresUVB-76, "the Buzzer"Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianWhite Shaman MuralWho were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" craniumWow! signalYounger Dryas impact hypothesisZodiac ciphers
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Donald TrumpPresident; ordered the 2026 release · born 1946
US government UAP disclosures

G 1

Gerald HawkinsAstronomer; author of the observatory reading · 1928–2003
Stonehenge

I 1

Ian RidpathAstronomer; proposed the fireball and lighthouse explanation in 1983 · born 1947
Rendlesham Forest, December 1980

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James P. KennettMarine geologist, University of California, Santa Barbara; leading proponent · born 1940
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Jimmy CarterUS President, 1977–1981 · 1924–2024
1979 Vela incident
Joe NickellInvestigator; archival and linguistic case for a hoax · 1944–2025
Beale ciphers
Joe NickellSceptical investigator · 1944–2025
Oak Island money pit

M 1

Maria ReicheMathematician; documented and protected the lines, proposed the calendar reading · 1903–1998
Nazca Lines

R 5

Richard L. GarwinIBM physicist; Ruina panel member · 1928–2025
1979 Vela incident
Robert BallardOceanographer; led the 2019 Nikumaroro expedition · born 1942
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Robert BigelowDeveloper; founder of NIDS and Bigelow Aerospace; owner 1996–2016 · 1908–1978
Skinwalker Ranch
Robert H. GrayIndependent astronomer; led most follow-up searches · born 1948
Wow! signal
Robert M. SchochGeologist; author of the rain-erosion redating · born 1949
Great Sphinx of Giza

W 1

Walter HautLieutenant, public information officer who issued the release · 1922–2005
Roswell, 1947

Z 2

Zahi HawassEgyptian archaeologist; Sphinx excavation and conservation · born 1947
Great Sphinx of Giza
Zahi HawassEgyptologist; excavator of the builders' cemetery · born 1947
How the Great Pyramid was built