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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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Ahmad Al-JalladEpigrapher (Ohio State); 2025 decipherment; OCIANA director
Dhofari script
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Alan BermanDirector of the Naval Research Laboratory in 1979
1979 Vela incident
AR
Alfred RohdeDirector of the Königsberg Castle museum; displayed the room
Amber Room
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Andrei KuryakovDeputy head, Prosecutor General's directorate for the Ural Federal District; announced the 2020 finding
Dyatlov Pass incident
AnkhhafVizier, director of Ro-She Khufu
How the Great Pyramid was built
AB
Audrey BlanchardArchaeologist, Archeodunum and Nantes; director of the Le Plasker excavation
Carnac alignments

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Harald MellerState archaeologist of Saxony-Anhalt, director of the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte · born 1960
Nebra Sky Disc

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Jack RuinaMIT professor, former ARPA director; chaired the White House panel
1979 Vela incident
JA
Jo Anne Van TilburgArchaeologist, UCLA; director of the Easter Island Statue Project
Easter Island moai
JK
Jon KosloskiDirector of AARO from August 2024
US government UAP disclosures
JK
Jon KosloskiDirector of AARO from 2024
2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos

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Kash PatelFBI director; said the Bureau was "spearheading" the review and promised a final report
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026

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Lee ClareDirector of the DAI Göbekli Tepe project
Göbekli Tepe

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Mark LehnerField director of the ARCE Sphinx Project; author of the 1991 dissertation
Great Sphinx of Giza
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Mark LehnerDirector, Ancient Egypt Research Associates
How the Great Pyramid was built
ME
Marq EvansDirector of the documentary Capturing Bigfoot
Patterson-Gimlin film
MJ
Michael J. MorwoodArchaeologist; co-director of the Liang Bua excavations
Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"
Mike Parker PearsonArchaeologist, UCL; director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project and the Preseli excavations · born 1957
Stonehenge

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Necmi KarulDirector of the Karahan Tepe excavations and the Taş Tepeler project, Istanbul University
Göbekli Tepe

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Pierre TalletEgyptologist, Sorbonne; director of the Wadi al-Jarf excavation · born 1966
How the Great Pyramid was built

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Richard E. GillespieExecutive director of TIGHAR
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Richard PettigrewExecutive director, Archaeological Legacy Institute; director of the 2026 expedition
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Robert K. EnglundAssyriologist at UCLA, founding director of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and editor of the archaic Uruk texts. · 1952–2020
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
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Robert S. DixonDirector of the Ohio SETI programme
Wow! signal

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Salomon ReinachArchaeologist, member of the Académie des Inscriptions and director of the Musée des Antiquités nationales, who dug at Glozel for three days
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Sean KirkpatrickFirst director of AARO, 2022 to December 2023
US government UAP disclosures

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William NoelCurator; director of the Archimedes Palimpsest Project · 1965–2024
Archimedes Palimpsest