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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.

America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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 TrumpUS President; said the cases were "pretty serious stuff", then on 30 April 2026 that there was "not much of a connection"
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026

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Eric BurlisonUS Representative (R-Missouri); pressed for FBI involvement and added names to the list
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James ComerUS Representative (R-Kentucky), chairman of the House Oversight Committee; opened its inquiry in April 2026
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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Jessica Reed KrausSubstack writer (House Inhabit) whose posts on Loureiro, Grillmair and McCasland helped spread the story
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026

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Karoline LeavittWhite House press secretary; announced the review of the cases on 17 April 2026
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Kash PatelFBI director; said the Bureau was "spearheading" the review and promised a final report
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Michael ShermerPublisher of Skeptic; argued the pattern is "patternicity" and base-rate neglect
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Mick WestScience writer and debunker; published the base-rate case against a pattern in April 2026
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Nick PopeFormer UK Ministry of Defence official and UFO writer; died April 2026 · died 2026
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026

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Richard HananiaColumnist; argued in UnHerd that several people on the list were not scientists
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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Ross CoulthartNewsNation journalist; linked McCasland and Monica Reza on air in March 2026
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Tim BurchettUS Representative (R-Tennessee); said in March 2026 that "there's just too many of them disappearing"
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Tom DeLongeMusician and founder of To The Stars; McCasland advised him on UFO matters
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026

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William Neil McCaslandRetired Air Force major general; commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory 2011–13; missing since 27 February 2026
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026