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Compiled by Marc Carlson

Timeline of A Mysterious Universe
(an exercise in persistence, and change)

Notes:

There are numerous contradictions and what appears to be outright fantasy in the following entries. Rather than force a determination as to what material is "better" than the others, I've tried to include it all equally.

Dates marked with an asterisk (###*) indicate a guess on my part.

Material marked with an asterisk in parentheses (*) is public "Real World" information. Please note this does not mean that I am claiming that they really happened, just that they are purported to have happened.
An "i" in brackets [I] denotes conspiracy or Illuminati events.
A "j" in brackets [J] denotes events specifically relating to the Kennedy Assassination.
An "m" in brackets [M] denotes something to do with "Monsters" or "Mysterious Events"
A "u" in brackets [U] denotes something to do with UFOs.

c.5th Century

A Pictish stone depicts what might be the Loch Ness Monster

565

St. Columba encounters the Loch Ness Monster

c.1294

[M] Marco Polo hears of a giant bird capable of lifting an elephant. It is supposed that this is the Madagascar Elephant Bird. About this time they become extinct.

1609

[M] 1st recorded sighting of "Champ", or the Lake Champlain Monster, by Pierre de Champlain.

1625

An English explorer brings back the 1st reports from Africa regarding a "hairy man" called Pongo ("gorilla")

1792

[M] The French blue diamond mysteriously vanishes.

1795

[M] Daniel McGiniss discovers a clearing on Oak Island, where he figured must be some buried treasure. He returned the next day with John Smith and Anthony Vaughan. They only manage to dig down 30'.

1804

[M] McGinnis, Smith and Vaughan return to Oak Island, with Simeon Lynds. At 100' they reach the probable site of the chests. They leave it along for the night, by the time they return everything is flooded.

1805

[M] Lynds and Smith dig a second pit and tunnel in from the side, attempting to drain the water out. They are lucky to survive.

1810

[I] The US Senate passes the proposed 13th Amendment barring "Titles of Nobility". The Amendment is sent to the states for ratification.

1811

(*) War of 1812.
[I] The proposed 13th Amendment is a casualty of the war.
[M] Explorer David Thompson find tracks of an immense humanoid in Rockies near future site of Jasper, Alberta.

1817

[M] First reports of a peculiar leaping man in London.

1828

26 May
[M] Kaspar Hauser mysteriously appears on the streets of Nuremberg.

1832

[M] B.H.Hodgson, British Resident in Nepal, reports that the natives are being frightened by a "Wild man".

1833

17 Dec
[M] Kaspar Hauser dies of wounds received in a mysterious stabbing

1837

Oct
[M] Polly Adams is attacked at the Blackheath Fair by Spring Heeled Jack.

1838

[M] Edgar Allen Poe meets Mary Rogers, a 'cigar girl' at John Andersons' tobacco shop, 321 Broadway, New York.
9 Jan
[M] The Lord Mayor of London reveals the existance of a "citizen of Peckham" who has been frightening women.
18 Feb
[M] Lucy and Margaret Scales are attacked by Spring Heeled Jack in Limehouse.
20 Feb
[M] Jane Alsop is attacked at her parent's home in east London by Spring Heeled Jack.
c27 Feb
[M] Another victim is attacked by Spring Heeled Jack.
4 Oct
[M] Mary Rogers disappears. She reappeared 6 days later, tired and ill, explaining that she had been with relatives in the country. A few days later, rumors begin that she was seen in the company of a naval officer, and she quits her job.

1840

Oct-Nov
[M] Daniel Payne, a clerk (or cork-cutter), moves into Phoebe Roger's boarding house at 126 Nassau street.

1841

Jan
[M] Mary Rogers, disappears. She reappeared 6 days later, tired and ill, explaining that she had been with relatives in the country. A few days later, rumors begin that she was seen in the company of a naval officer, and she quits her job. [This IS the first disappearance, which is also noted for 4 Oct 1838. This dating is according to Colin Wilson. Source unknown. Evidence from the estate case of John Anderson in 1891, hints that Mary had been missing after receiving an abortion, paid for by Anderson.]
Feb
[M] Mary Rogers announces her engagement to Daniel Payne.
3 Jul
[M] Alfred Crommelin (or William Koekkoek), a former boarder of Mrs. Rogers' (in 1840), and a former suiter of Mary's, a seaman from the USS North Carolina, calls on Mary.
25 Jul
[M] Mary Rogers again disappears, purportedly while on her way to visit an aunt in Bleeker Street. [An anonymous witness told the coroner, in a letter, that he had seen her step out of a boat in Hoboken with 6 rough looking characters, and head into the woods with them, laughing and under no constraint. Two other witnesses, who knew Mary, could corroberate the general story, but couldn't absolutely identify the woman as Mary Rogers.] [A stagecoach driver named Adams (or Adam Wall) saw Mary arrive on the Hoboken ferry with a well dressed, dark complected man, and they had gone to a roadhouse named "Nick Mullens". Nick Mullens was kept by a Mrs. Loss, who said the couple had 'taken refreshment' and then went into the woods. Some she thought she heard a scream, but thought no more of it.]
26 Jul
[M] Mary's mother and fiancé begin to seek for her.
28 Jul
[M] Mary Rogers' body is found in the Hudson River at Elysian Fields (or Castle Point), Hoboken, New Jersey. She was strangled, a piece of lace from her dress was tied tightly about her neck. A strip of muslin (about a foot or eighteen inches wide), carefully torn from her upper petticoat, and knotted to be used as a gag, is found loose around her neck. Over this is tied her bonnet strings (in a sailor's slip knot). There are signs of bruising about the neck, and marks of cords on her wrists. A section of her skirt had been torn up, but not off, looped around the waist, and secured in back by a knot. Her nether petticoat is missing.
29 Jul
[M] A brief Coroner's inquest in the matter of Mary Cecilia Rogers' death. The coroner determines that she had been violated by multiple men (or perhaps multiple times).
1 Aug
[M] The papers finally take note of Mary Rogers' death.
3 Aug
[M] An article in the New York Herald reports the first disappearance, and asserts that she was kept by a Naval Officer for two weeks.
12 Aug
[M] The Evening Post reports on Daniel C. Payne's deposition (n. b., he is now of 47 John Street)
13 Aug
[M] The Evening Post reports on the depositions of Alfred Crommelin, and Archibald Padley (both of 19 John Street), also former boarders of Mrs. Rogers'. As well as that of Mrs. Rogers' herself.
25 Sep
[M] Children playing in the woods in Hoboken find a petticoat, a white silk scarf, a parasol, and a handkerchief marked "M.R."
Early Nov
[M] Daniel Payne commits suicide on the spot where Mary Rogers' petticoat and stuff were found.

1842

18 Nov
[M] Mrs. Loss is mortally wounded in an "accidental shooting", and before her death confesses that Mary Rogers came to her establishment in the company of a young physician who "undertook" a "premature delivery" during which she died. The body was thrown into the river to protect the Doctor and Mrs. Loss's family.
Nov (December and February)
[M] Edgar Allan Poe publishes the Mystery of Marie Roget in Snowden's Ladies' Companion, as a serial. In the original version of the story, the title character is murdered while being raped by her secret lover. [There is some weak speculation that Poe himself might have been the dark complected secret lover who murdered Mary Rogers].

1845

[M] Spring Heeled Jack is seen in Ealing and Hanwell. At Jacob's Island in Bermondsey SHJ is responsible for the accidental death of a prostitute, Maria Davis.

1849

(*) Sir Basil Zaharoff born.
[M] Anthony Vaughan returns to Oak Island with the Truro Syndicate. They dig numerous shafts, bore several holes and get ripped off by their foreman.

1850

[M] A female Alma is captured in the Ochamchir region. She is named Zama. (N.b. She is able to bear children fathered by humans).[Date uncertain]
[M] The Truro Syndicate uncovers the drain system that keeps flooding the pit.
[M] The gorilla is "discovered"?

1853

[M] A huge "Tiger" is spotted near Russelville, Ky.

1859

[M] Lord Waterford dies from a fall from his horse. He may have been Spring Heeled Jack.

1860

[M] The Okapi is first reported in Africa.

1863

(*) Rockefeller builds his first oil refinery.

1865

[I] Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
(*) 13th Amendment is passed prohibiting slavery.

1869

[M] French missionary Armand David becomes the 1st westerner to see a Giant Panda.

1870

[I] Standard Oil Company founded.

1871

[M] G.B. Scott reports hearing "The Barisal Guns" in the Sundarbans, near the mouth of the Ganges.

1872

Nov [M] There are reports of "the Peckham Ghost", which might be Spring Heeled Jack.
[M] Marie Celeste is found abandoned.

1874

(*) Sidney Reilly is born as "Georgi" aka Sigmund Rosenblum in Odessa.

1875

(*) Aleister Crowley born.

1877

[M] A woman is attacked by a large cat near Sun, India.
[M] Schiaparelli reports canali on Mars
[M] Spring Heeled Jack makes an appearance at Aldershot Barracks.

1881

[M] N.M.Pzewalski, a Russian naturalist, collects a number of stories of "Almas"

1884

[M] A small hominoid is captured near Victoria, British Columbia.

1885

[M] Beranger Sauniere becomes the Cure of the village church in Rennes-le-Chateau.

1887

[I] Dr Westcott of London uncovers an ancient manuscript

1888

[I] Under the orders of Fraulein Sprengle, Dr. Westcott founds the English branch of Die Goldene Dämmerung, or the Isis-Urania Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He is joined by Dr. Woodcott and MacGregor Mathers.
[M] Five Whitechapel prostitutes are murdered, allegedly by "Jack the Ripper" [Some allege these murders are committed according to strict Masonic principles].

1889

(*) Second Communist International organized.
[M] L.A. Waddell discovers tracks of a "Yeti" in the Himalayas.

1890

[M] Zama dies, leaving behind numerous half human/half Alma children.
[M] Pygmy hippos are first reported in Afirca.

1891

[M] In Michigan, a 7' tall hairy man is seen.
[M/I] Sauniere begins to renovate the church at Rennes le Chateau. He finds something, which causes the Bishop of Carcassone to send Sauniere to consult scholars and cryptographers. Sauniere returns and continues to renovate the church. He becomes Very Wealthy.
[I] The foundations of the Round Table Society, eventually to be funded by Cecil Rhodes and the Rothschilds, are laid by a meeting of representatives from US, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, and New Zealand.

1892

[M] A series of unexplained explosions occur along the English Channel.

1893

(*) Lizzie Borden is acquitted.

1895

[M] Peasants near Odessa, Russia are attacked by a strange creature.

1896

[U] A wave of sightings of UFOs in US.
[I] Sidney Rosenblum is hired by British Secret Service to travel to St. Petersburg for them.

1897

17 Apr
[U] A "mysterious aircraft" crashes in Aurora, Texas. A single body is recovered that is clearly described as not being terrestrial.
[M] Digging in the Money Pit, W.R. Chappell strikes iron, then cement, wood, and 32 inches of soft metal plus oak chips, coconut husk fiber, and a small piece of parchment with the letters "u i" "v i", or "w i" written in India ink with a quill pen.

1898

(*) Spanish American War.
[M] Olof Ohman digs up a Viking runic stone in Kensington, Minnesota.
[M] Morgan Robertson writes "Futility" (apparently republished as "The Wreck of the Titan; or Futility" in 1912), a horror story about a luxury ocean liner hitting an iceberg and sinking.

1899

[I] Meeting in England between the Rothschilds, J.P. Morgan, and the Warbugs.
[I] Sidney Rosenblum becomes Sidney Reilly.
[M] Sir Harry Johnston, Governor of Uganda, proves the existance of the Opaki.

1900

(*) The Boxer Uprising
(*) The Boer War.
[M] There is a trickle of "Strange People" across the world.
[I] Adolf Lanz founds the Order of the New Templars.

1901

(*) Queen Victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son Edward VII. President McKinley is assassinated by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz. Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th U.S. president.
[U] Sightings of a "Floating City" in Alaska.
[I] Sidney Reilly travels to Baku, then Tehran to protect British oil interests. He has his first encounter with Zamenhof, "the Merchant of Death".

1902

[I] The O.T.O (Ordo Templi Orientis) is founded.
[M] A number of horses, sheep and cattle are mutilated in Staffordshire. They are attributed to George Edaji

1903

(*) Vladimir Ilich Lenin organizes the Bolshevik revolutionary group, in London (in exile). Orville Wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
[M] Fire in the Iroquois Theater, Chicago. The worst theater disaster in US history, 602 dead.
[I] Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an alleged plan for Jewish world takeover, is published in the Russian news media.
[I] Reilly interferes with the Rothschilds who are dabbling in Arabian Oil.

1904

Sep
[M] Spring Heeled Jack makes his "final Bow" in Everton, Liverpool.
(*) Territorial disputes in Manchuria begin the Russo-Japanese War.
[M] Aleister Crowley, on his honeymoon in Cairo, is led by his new bride to meet his "Guardian Angel" Aiwas.

1905

(*) "Bloody Sunday" and the revolt of the Potempkin symbolize an abortive revolution in Russia. This prompts the Czar to establish the post of Prime Minister and the Duma.
[I] An expanded edition of the Protocols of Zion are published.
[M] Aleister Crowley leads an "ill-fated" expedition to Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas. The Expedition fails amidst various allegations, including cannibalism.

1906

(*) U.S. troops return to Cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
(*) The San Francisco earthquake kills 700.

1907

(*) A Triple Entente is formed between Britain, France and Russia. The Panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the U.S. stock market.
[I] Financial panic and depression are allegedly caused by J.P. Morgan to gain support for the centralized banking concept.
[U] UFO seen near Burlington, Vermont.

1908

[U] The Tunguska fireball explodes over Siberia.
[M] Voodoo cult is broken up in New Orleans.
(*) Federal Bureau of Investigation founded.
[M] Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid buys the Hope Diamond for $400,000, gives it his wife, and later stabs her to death.

1909

(*) American explorer Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
[I] Formal foundation of the Round Table Group;
[M] Founding of the Armanen Initiates.
[I] H. Spenser Lewis visits Paris where he is contacted by the Ancient Rosicrucians.
[M] Crowley receives his "mountaintop revelations".
[U] UFO seen across New England.
[M] Turkish Sultan Abdul Hmid loses his throne.
[M] Franklin D. Roosevelt takes part in the digging at the Money Pit.

1910

(*) Japanese forces annex Korea. The Union of South Africa is formed.
[I] A secret meeting of Bankers and Politicians at Jekyll Island, Georgia results in the Federal Reserve Act.
[I] Round Table Quarterly begins publication.
[M] Two prospectors are decapitated by a large humanoid near Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories.
[M] A prospector is attacked by a "Mountain-Devil" near Mount Saint Lawrence, Washington.

1911

(*) The Ch'ing dynasty is deposed in China; a republic is formed under Sun Yat-sen.
[M] Crowley joins the OTO.
[M] The Hope Diamond is bought by the American tycoon Ned McLean for $154,000.

1912

(*) The Balkan League begins the first Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire.
[I] Founding of the Germanen Order in Germany.
[U] An intensely black object is seen upon the moon, estimated to be 250 miles by 50 miles wide.
[M] Wilfred Voynich purchases a recently discovered manuscript (found in the Jesuit school at Montdragone in Frascati, Italy) allegedly written in 1666 by the rector of Prague University Johannes Marcus Marci.
[M] Crowley founds the British OTO.
[M] The first reports are received in the West about the Komodo Dragon, but they are dismissed.
14 Apr
[M] RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, strikes an iceberg, ripping open her hull and sinking.

1913

(*) Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th U.S. president
[I] Yezidi cult brought to London.
[M] Ambrose Bierce disappears into Mexico.

1914

(*) Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, precipitating World War I.

1915

(*) Albert Einstein formulates his General Theory of Relativity.
[I] H. Spencer Lewis founds the A.M.O.R.C. (Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross) in the US.
[U] Bright spots appear on the Moon.
[M] A young woman, Margaret --, sights the Creature of Loch Ness waddling across the road. [Date Uncertain]

1916

(*) Verdun. Battle of Jutland. The Easter Rising in Dublin.
[M] Lord Kitchener is killed when the HMS Hampshire is sunk by mines. It is possible that his voyage plans had been leaked to the Germans. He was traveling to Archangel to meet with Czar Nicholas to discuss ways to help the Russians in their war.

1917

(*) Unrestricted submarine warfare.
[I] Round Table members arrange for Lenin to be shipped back to Russia, thereby precipitating the Russian Revolution.
[M] Berenger Sauniere suffered a stroke and died of cirrhosis of the liver, leaving his housekeeper, Marie Dernaud, a wealthy woman.
Mar 8
(*) Rioting due to bread shortages trigger the Russian Revolution in Petrograd
[I] Sidney Reilly, working for the British, attempts to prepare for the Counter-Revolution (Although evidence exists to suggest that he might have intended to take over the Revolution). Due to the failure of the Allies at Archangel, the CounterRevolution eventually falls through.
(*) The Russian Revolution begins; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates.
[U] Luminous objects are seen moving across the Moon.
[M] A large "Lion" ("dubbed Nellie the Lion" by the press) is seen in central Illinois.

1918

(*) Ludendorff Offensive. German Revolt. The Weimar Republic negotiates armistice
(*) Loch Ness is strewn with dozens of mines, a depth of a mile, by HMS Welbeck (carrying Hugh Gray).
Jul 16
[M] Czar Nicholas and his family are murdered near Ekaterinburg/Sverdlovsk in the Urals. [It has been speculated that the Czarina, the Czareivitch and the four Grand Duchesses are disguised and sent to Perm (200 miles to the NW). It has also been speculated that the Grand Duchess Anastasia managed to escape.]
Jul 18
(*) An official statement is issued that stating that the Czar had been executed, but that his wife and son had been sent to a safe place.
Jul 25
(*) Ekaterinburg falls to the White Russians, and an investigation of the fates of the Royals is ordered.
Sep
(*) The British send Sir Charles Eliot to Ekaterinburg to examine the Royal remains. He finds remains belonging to the Czar, the family Doctor and three servants [This may not be the case as remains that are purported to be those of the Czar and much of his family are excavated in the 1990s]..
Dec
(*) The Whites capture Perm. There a numerous reports being passed around about the Czarina and the Grand Duchesses being raped while the Czar is forced to watch.
[M] USS Cyclops leaves Barbados and is never heard of again.

1919

Jan
[M] The Four Grand Dukes being held in Petrograd are shot by the Bolsheviks.
"Spring"
[M] The Grand Duchess Anastasia may have escaped from her captors. A number of trains are stopped and searched for her, including that of the head of the Swedish Red Cross, Count Carl Bonde. There is evidence that she was recaptured though. [Allegedly: When the Czarina and the children were massacred, Anastasia was only knocked unconscious, and was rescued by a soldier named Tchaikovsky, and moved with him and his family to Rumania, where she bore him a son that was placed in an orphanage. Tchaikovsky was killed in a street fight, and Anastasia eventually drifted on...]
(*) The Paris Peace Conference opens at Versailles. The League of Nations is formed with Geneva in Switzerland as its headquarters.
[I] League of Nations founded at the Paris Peace Conference. Meeting at the Majestic Hotel, Paris, between Wilsonian intellectuals and representatives of the Round Table Society to discuss forming an organization "for the study of international affairs". Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) founded.
[I] Founding of the Thule Society. Hitler recruited. Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
[M] Jock Forbes and his father see the Loch Ness Monster crossing the road on a stormy night.
[M] Cpt James and his aircraft disappear from over New York.

1920

(*) The Russian Civil War ends with victory for the Bolsheviks.
(*) A Home Rule Bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern Ireland.
(*) The Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition passes.
[I] Prohibition was passed to enable the fragmented criminal groupings to form into fewer, more organized syndicates (And therefore, more easy to control).
[M] A young woman tried to kill herself by jumping into a Berlin Canal. She is eventually sent to a sanatorium in Dalldorf.
[I] Assassination of an estimated 400 German public figures begun.
[I] Principles of modern advertising established, emphasizing manipulation rather than information.
(*) German Workers Party becomes the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP).
[M] Crowley moves to Cefalu, Sicily, and founds the Abbey of Thelema.
[M] Geologist Francois de Loys encounters a pair of apes in the forests between Venezuela and Columbia. They shoot on and take a picture of it (Ameranthropoides loysi).
[U] Shafts of light project from the moon.

1921

(*) Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th U.S. president;
[I] Council on Foreign Relations founded in US by Wilsonian intellectuals and the Round Table Group.
[I] Protocols of Zion are shown to have been faked by the Ochrana (The Czar's secret police).
[M] Col Howard-Bury sees a line of Yetis crossing a glacier on Everest.
Sept
(*) First 20th century appearance of the Ku Klux Klan.

1922

(*) General revival and growth of the KKK.
(*) Margaret Murray publishes The Witch Cult in Western Europe.
(*) Egypt achieves independence from Britain
(*) Benito Mussilini ([I] Rumor: a British deep penetration agent) comes to power in Italy, and begins an attempt to eliminate the Mafia from Sicily
(*) British navy tries to reclaim the mines in Loch Ness, only the anchors remain.
[M] The young woman in the Dalldorf Sanatorium is initially identified as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, however she identifies herself as the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

1923

(*) Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th U.S. president.
[M] President Harding dies amidst conflicting rumors of the cause of his death, after the Teapot Dome Scandal.
[I] International Police (InterPol) founded in Vienna.

1924

(*) Soviet leader Lenin dies; new leader Joseph Stalin begins a purge of his opponents. J. Edgar Hoover is
appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the FBI).
[M] Miners near Mount St. Helens, Washington are besieged by giant apes after they kill the creature they dub "Bigfoot".
[M] A lone camper, Albert Ostman, near the Toba Inlet, British Columbia, is "visited" by four humanoids.

1925

17 Jul
(*) The Geneva Protocol banning Chemical and Biological weapons is signed by every country on Earth but the US and Japan. (The US finally signs in the '70s)
(*) Friedrich Ebert dies; Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of the German republic.
[I] Lionel Curtis organizes the Institute of Pacific Relations in at least ten countries for the Round Table Groups.
[M] N.A.Tombazi sights a Yeti on an Everest Glacier.
[I] Sidney Reilly vanishes while in Leningrad. The Press reports his death.

1926

(*) The General Strike breaks out in Britain involving 3 million workers.
[M] Agatha Christie vanishes for two weeks.

1927

(*) Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.
[I] Rise of Council on Foreign Relations in power.
[M] Anna Le Guillon Mitchell-Hedges discovers the Crystal Skull in the ruins of Lubaantun in British Honduras.

1928

[M] A Nootka Indian, Muchalot Harry, is captured by a group of about 20 humanoids on Vancouver Island.
(*) The Kellog-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.

1929

(*) Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st U.S. president
(*) Soviet leader Joseph Stalin exiles Leon Trotsky.
(*) The Wall Street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
(*) American explorer Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole.
[M] Sidney Reilly, "Ace of Spies" disappears into the Soviet Union.
[M] Judge Crater disappears.
[I] CFR moves to Harold Pratt Building on 68th Street in NYC.

1930

[M] Mysterious explosions are heard near Charleston SC.
(*) The city of Constantinople is re-named Istanbul.
[M] Three young fishermen see a large creature in Loch Ness.

1931

(*) Japanese forces occupy Manchuria.
(*) Spain is declared a republic; King Alfonso XIII abdicates.
(*) Chicago gangster Al Capone is jailed for income tax evasion.

1932

(*) Presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt pledges a New Deal.
[M] Charles Lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
(*) US Admiral Yarnell demonstrates undeniably how an early morning air attack could successfully bypass all defenses to Pearl Harbor.

1933

(*) Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd U.S. president; President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf
(*) Hitler is chancellor of Germany.
(*) The Reichstag fire gives the Nazis a pretext for outlawing the German Communist party.
(*) The Nazis erect the first concentration camps in Germany.
(*) Attempted assassination of FDR in Miami, Chicago mayor Cermak is killed instead.
(*) Roosevelt makes it illegal for private citizens to own gold.
(*) Prohibition ends.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: There are a minimum of 28 sightings of the Loch Ness monster in this year. Theses include Mr. and Mrs John Mackay on the newly completed North Shore Road, Mr and Mrs George Spicer, Hugh Gray photographs the Loch Ness Monster. Dr. J.Kirton, Miss N.Simpson, a Scottish film co. (Irvine, Clayton and Hay) films the creature.
(*) Dachau concentration camp opens.
[U] Flying lights are seen over Sweden.

1934

(*) Mao Tse-tung leads the Chinese Communists on the Long March.
(*) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is formed to protect U.S. investors. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is formed to regulate broadcasting.
(*) Russian GPU is reorganized as NKVD.
(*) Dr. Ralph von Koeningwald discovers the teeth of Gigantopithecus in an apothecaries shop in Hong Kong.
[I] Foundation of the "Black Order".
[U] Unexplained "Ghostflier" broadcasts in Sweden.
[M] John Dillinger is allegedly shot and killed outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Robert Kenneth Wilson (a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons) photograph the Monster ("The Surgeon's Photo"); fourteen men are hired by Sir Edward Mountain to watch the Loch, Cpt James Frazer, the Bendictine brother Richard Horan.

1935

(*) The Nuremberg Racial Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship. Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
(*) Controversial Louisiana senator Huey P. Long is assassinated.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Miss Rena Mackenzie.
23 Oct
[M] Mobster Dutch Schultz is shot in Newark, NJ's Palace chophouse and tavern. He dies the next evening after babbling a long while.

1936

(*) Edward VIII abdicates as king of Great Britain; he is succeeded by George VI.
[I] Beginning of Moscow Purge Trials in which numerous communist leaders are brainwashed into false confessions and then executed.
[M] The first of 48 "Lost Colony" stones are found in North Carolina.
(*) The Axis Powers sign a Pact.

1937

(*) The Japanese invasion of China begins the Second Sino-Japanese War.
[M] The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed by fire at Lakehurst, N.J.
(*) Spanish Civil War begins.
[M] Amelia Earhart vanishes over the Pacific while on a Round the world flight.
(*) Purges continue in the Soviet Union.

1938

(*) Hitler invades Austria; a union (Anschluss) of Austria and Germany is proclaimed.
(*) Jewish property is attacked in Germany in the Kristallnacht (night of broken glass).
(*) The House Committee on Un-American Activities investigates U.S. subversives.
[I] Interpol divides as a portion goes into exile and a portion is absorbed by the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo).
[I] Odessa Network groundwork is laid. (Rumor: Nazi expedition to Antarctica stakes out 600,000 square kilometers near the South Pole).
[U] Germany recovers at least one crashed UFO.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: John Maclean.
[M] The 1st identifiable Coelacanth is caught off Madagascar.

1939

[J] Lee Harvey Oswald born.
(*) General Franco's forces capture Madrid, ending the Spanish Civil War.
(*) Germany and Italy form the Pact of Steel military alliance.
(*) Foreign ministers Ribbentrop and Molotov sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact of Nonaggression.
29 Sep
(*) Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II.
[J] Attorney Leon Cooke, friend of Jack Ruby and financial secretary of the union that employed Ruby, is killed by union president John Martin. The Union is subsequently taken over by Paul Dorfman of the Sam Giancana Mob.

1940

(*) Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Allied forces aid Norway but are defeated. The German army begins a blitzkrieg attack on Holland, Belgium, and France. The British expeditionary force is evacuated from Dunkerque/Dunkirk in France. German forces reach Paris; Vichy France under Marshal Petain signs an armistice. General Charles de Gaulle rallies Free French resistance in London. British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevents the German invasion of England.
(*) The Soviet Union annexes the Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
(*) Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders.
[I] Interpol moved to Wannsee near Berlin with Oskar Huth in charge.
[?] Nazis begin to build a number of secret bases over the world, with the main base in Antarctica.
[I] Roosevelt send General "Wild Bill" Donovan on an information gathering mission to Europe. Donovan recommends a centralized intelligence organization. US State Dept. creates the Division of Special Research (headed by CFR member Pasbolsky).
[?] US Government is alleged to possess the Mohr Ray, able to detonate gunpowder from a distance.
[M/U] "Project Rainbow" begins working on invisibility under Nikola Tesla.

1941

(*) The Lend-Lease Act allows the transfer of U.S. war materials to Britain and China. Nazi leader Rudolf Hess flies to England on a quixotic peace mission. The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor (using the plan conceived in 1932 by Admiral Yarnell); America enters World War II. Japanese forces capture Hong Kong and invade Malaya and the Philippines. Ho Chi Minh organizes the Viet Minh to combat the Japanese in Indochina.
[I] Donovan made the head of the new Office of Coordinator of Intelligence.
[M] Soviet partisans capture a "Wildman" in the Caucasus.

1942

(*) Hitler proposes the Final Solution of the Jewish Question; the Holocaust begins.
(*) Manhattan Project is established ([U] The Jason Group may have been established as an offshoot from this)
Mar
[M/U] Tesla drops out of project Rainbow, to be replaced by John Van Neumann.

1943

7 Jan
(*) Nikola Tesla dies.
(*) Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Casablanca to plan their war strategy. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference.
22 Jul
[M/U] The first test of the "The Philadelphia Experiment" on the USS Eldridge.
12 Aug
[M/U] The second test of the "The Philadelphia Experiment" on the USS Eldridge. According to Jessup and the Allende papers the US Navy and the SS Andrew Fursenth are involved in experiments of an invisibility screen. The experiment goes awry and the ship teleports from Philadelphia to Norfolk, Va. [According to one source, this is one end of a large time vortex that will be eventually explored and exploited by the government in the Montauk Project.]
27 Aug
(*) The USS Eldridge is officially commissioned.
[U] Pilots on both sides of the war report seeing "foo fighters" while flying combat missions.
(*) LSD-25 developed by Swiss Chemist Albert Hofmann.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Cdr Russell Flint hits the Monster with a motor launch.
[U] Alleged contact begins between the US government and "Aliens".

1944

Jun 6
(*) Allied D-Day invasion forces land at Normandy in northern France.
(*) V-1 (and later the V-2) weapons of vengeance are launched against London.
[I] The World Bank is established to assist European postwar recovery.
[I] The Abwehr is absorbed by the RSHA (Nazi Intelligence). The Fremde Heeres Ost (Foreign Armies East / German Eastern Army Intelligence) under Reinhard Gehlen remains free from RSHA domination.
[I] Nazis begin sending millions of dollars worth of Jewels, paintings and cash to Argentina for safe keeping.
[I] Russian NKVD reorganizes as MGB.
[M] "Moth-Man" is seen in Hollywood, Md.

1945

(*) Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference. Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker; Germany surrenders to the Allies.
(*) Roosevelt dies; Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd U.S. president.
(*) Churchill, Truman and Stalin hold the last wartime conference at Potsdam.
(*) The United Nations is formed; Trygve Halvdan Lie becomes secretary-general (1946).
(*) Germany and Austria are divided between the Allies into 4 zones of occupation.
(*) Korea is divided between U.S. and Soviet occupation forces along the 38th parallel.
(*) Ho Chi Minh proclaims the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
[I] Beginning of Nazi withdrawal to Argentina, and elsewhere, Via the Odessa Network under the oversight of the Valhalla Exchange (Martin Bormann).
(*) O.S.S. disbands, its agents moving to military intelligence agencies and the State Department.
[I] CFR takes covert control of the US State Department.
[I] Operation Paperclip begins: The surviving heads of Nazi intelligence are moved to Washington, led by General Reinhard Gehlen; The retrieval of German V1/V2 material and personnel, often involving fast movement into areas that were about to be handed over to the Red Army, to loot the Nazi missile factories and test sites. Whole trainloads of stuff were pulled out, and were sent over to Fort Bliss with the von Braun team to work on US missiles; it also involved other esoteric technology's, such as sound weapons, synthetic oil technology, and strange aircraft. (The Russians got their own share of the technical elite).
[I] Interpol is reorganized in Paris.

[U] Flight 19 vanishes off the coast of Florida.

1946

(*) ENIAC computer is unveiled by the US Army.
[U] UFO crashes near Spitzbergen, Sweden. General James H. Doolittle travels there to inspect it.
(*) General De Gaulle resigns as president of France; the Fourth Republic is formed.
[I] Truman's executive order sets up the National Intelligence Authority and the Central Intelligence Group; General Gehlen returns to Germany to work for US intelligence. West German intelligence is built by CIG out of remnants of Fremde Heeres Ost. The CIG takes over sections of the Odessa network.
[U/I] Rumor: Admiral Byrd leads a Naval "research" expedition to attack the Nazi installation in Antarctica.
(*) John Kennedy and Richard Nixon are elected to the House of Representatives.
[J] Murder of wire service king James Ragen by syndicate friends of Jack Ruby; indictment dropped following additional murders.
[U] Germans on the Moon.

1947

Apr
[U] Two Weather Bureau employees in Richmond, Virginia report metallic looking disks while tracking weather balloons.
May
[U] An RCA field engineer reports seeing a flying disk near Oklahoma City.
21 Jun
[M/U/J] Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington, a "donut shaped object" dropped slag in a boat piloted by Harold Dahl.
22 Jun
[M/U/J] An MIB ("Man in Black") visited Harold Dahl, who was piloting the boat, and warned him not to discuss the sighting; the boat's owner, Fred Lee Crisman (later suspected of being a CIA employee and was later called to give "secret testimony" at the trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans) found 20 tons of debris on Maury Island.
24 Jun
[U] Kenneth Arnold reports flying saucers near Yakima, Wash. leading a whole slew of other reports.
2 Jul
[U] A saucer is hit by a lightning bolt north of Roswell, NM, dumping a large amount of debris onto the Brazel Ranch. The saucer clears the mountains and crashes near San Augustin, NM.
OR an alien spacecraft crashes near Roswell, NM. (Allegedly brought down by experimental radar disrupting the vessels technology?)
OR a lost Project Mogul balloon finally breaks up over the Brazel Ranch.
3 Jul
[U] The San Agustin saucer is discovered by Barney Barnett and a group of archaeology students from the University of Pennsylvania. William "Mac" Brazel finds the debris on his ranch. The military arrives shortly thereafter. Four alien bodies are eventually recovered.
4 Jul
[U] UFOs reported near Portland, Oregon. United Airlines flight 105 reports 2 formations of flying disks.
[U] Brazel collects samples of the debris.
5 Jul
[U] Brazel travels to Corona, NM, and learns of the UFO reports from around the country.
6 Jul
[U] Brazel drives into Roswell to report the debris from the crash to Sheriff Wilcox. Eventually Major Marcell is assigned to investigate the crashsite.
7 Jul
[U] Maj. Marcell visits the crashsite. He brings samples of the debris home.
8 Jul
[U] UFOs are sighted at Muroc Field and Rogers Dry Lake.
[U] Roswell AAF reports the recovery of the debris. The debris is recovered, and shipped off to Wright-Patterson AAF via Carswell AAF, Fort Worth, TX. General Ramey begins the cover up.
29 Jul
[U] Kenneth Arnold, who investigated the case, reported an unexplained failure of his own plane's engine soon after two Air Force investigators were killed while taking off from Tacoma's airport.
31 Jul
[U] Airforce lists the Maury Island sighting as a hoax and a B-29 Crash. Dahl later disappeared.
[U] A UFO crashes near Paradise Valley, AZ.
(*) The United Nations elects to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. India becomes independent and is divided into the nations of India and Pakistan.
[I] Partition of India receives "strong impetus from the Round Table Group".
23 Sep
[U] Twining Report details how the military should handle UFO contacts.
23 Sep
[U] Majestic-12 is established by Executive Order of Harry Truman as a policy making body.
(*) The U.S. Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe is established.
9 Dec
[I/U] Truman approves the issuance of NSC-4 "Coordination of foreign intelligence measures."
[I/U] National Security Act reforms the Department of Defense, and creates the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, MJ-12. James V. Forrestal of Naval Intelligence becomes head of the new intelligence community.
30 Dec
[U] Project Sign is begun by the Air Force.
[M] Professor von Furer-Haimendorf visits Apu Tanis in the Himalayas.
[M] Aleister Crowley dies of heart and lung problems.
[M] A rumor exists that Sidney Reilly survives until this date.
[U] Professor Rapuzzi Luigi Johannis while hiking in the Mountains north of Trieste sees a round red object accompanied by 3' tall green men (Who otherwise match the description of "Greys").

1948

Jan
[U] The Air Force establishes "Project Saucer" to investigate "unidentified flying objects" (Project Saucer is a code name for Project Grudge)
7 Jan
[U] Cpt. Charles Mantell is killed while chasing a UFO in his jet near Louisville, Ky.
13 Feb
[U] A UFO Crash near Aztec, NM (it has 12 or 16 bodies that died of asphixiation. A second saucer may have found nearby near Farmington.
25 Mar
[U] A UFO crashes on the White Sands Missle Range.
7 Jul
[U] A 90' Saucer with a single occupant ("Tomato Man") crashes "30 miles" across the border from Laredo in Mexico. [n.b. sufficient details suggest that this is a hoax, or a misinterpretation of an Air Force crash. Or a disinformation coup]. This may also be the 1949 Sonora, Mexico crash.
24 Jun
(*) The Soviets blockade West Berlin; Britain and the U.S. begin the Berlin Airlift.
24 Jul
[U] Eastern Airlines flight 576 sights a UFO near Montgomery, Alabama.
1 Oct
[U] Lt George Gorman is involved in a dog-fight with a UFO over Fargo, North Dakota.
Nov
[U] Green flares or streaks are sighted around Albuquerque, NM.
18 Nov
[U] An Air Force pilot chases a UFO near Washington DC.
5 Dec
[U] A number of green fireballs are seen over around Albuquerque, NM. They are seen thereafter, nearly every night through December and January.
15 Dec
(*) Alger Hiss is indicted as a communist spy.
(*) Palestinian Jews proclaim the independent state of Israel. Arab armies invade Israel in the first Arab-Israeli War.
[I] Approximate date of the beginning of Operation Ohio, a CIA program responsible for one hundred European assassinations during the next ten years.
[U] Beginning of CIA interest in UFOs as a "security" problem.
(*) Nixon gains prominence in the Alger Hiss case as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
[I] Nixon travels to Miami where he meets with Bebe Rebozo and goes yachting with other underworld connected figures.
[U] "Ball Lightning" plagues Svaneke, Denmark.

1949

Feb
[U] A meeting at Los Alamos recommends the beginning of Project Twinckle to study the Green Fireballs.
11 Feb
[U] Project Sign concludes that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin, and that ALFs ("Alien Life Forms") exist. The Project is concluded and replaced by Project Grudge.
Feb-Mar
[M] Events in Mt. Ranier, Maryland which will eventually be fictionalized in the novel and movie "the Exorcist".
4 Mar
(*) Judith Coplon, a Justice Department employee is arrested as a Soviet spy.
27 Apr
[U] The Air Force begins its PR campaign against the flying saucer myth.
30 Apr
[U] Saturday Evening Post article on "Project Saucer" (cover for Project Grudge).
12 May
(*) The Berlin Blockade is lifted.
21 May
[I] Admiral Forrestal's brother alerts the government that he intends on taking the Admiral home from the hospital.
22 May
[I] Early morning suicide (Assassination) of James V. Forrestal at Bethesda Hospital Neurological Ward. Forrestal is convinced that he is being followed by Israeli agents. Oddly enough, he was.
(*) Communists under Mao defeat the Nationalists and form the People's Republic of China. Nationalist Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-shek move into exile on Island of Formosa.
(*) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed to deter Soviet aggression.
(*) The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.
(*) Council of Europe established.
[I] Central Intelligence Agency Act exempts CIA from disclosure laws.
[I] US Army begins twenty years of "Simulated" Germ warfare attacks against American cities.
[U] Alien vessel crashes near Roswell, NM. Six aliens recovered, 1 survivor (Aka EBE-1 ("Extraterrestrial Biological Entity"), it lives until 1952)
[U] A Saucer with a single occupant ("Tomato Man") crashes in Sonora, Mexico.
[U] David Fry is abducted from White Sands and taken to space. He meets "Allen" for the first time.
[I] E. Howard Hunt becomes a CIA agent.
[I] Clay Shaw becomes an agent for the CIA's Domestic Contact Service.
[I] The West German intelligence, under Gehlen, is firmly under the control of the CIA.
[M] Gerald Brousseau Gardner publically announces that he is a Witch.
[U/I] Bilderbergers, centered in Geneva, are formed [to coordinate international UFO activities].

1950

(*) Hiss is convicted of perjury.
(*) Nixon is elected to Senate after a smear campaign against his opponent.
(*) Communist North Korean forces invade South Korea. The UN sanctions military aid for South Korea;
(*) Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his inquiry into un-American activities.
[I] Congress passes McCarran's Internal Security Act setting up program for detention of subversives. CIA organizes the Pacific Corporation, a large holding company. Beginning of CIA UFO disinformation series.
[U] Frank Scully publishes Behind the Flying Saucers.
[U] A UFO crashes near Laredo, TX, about 30 miles inside the Mexican border (See the Jul 7 1948 crash).
[U] UFO is photographed near McManville, Or.
[M] Thorntowne, IN residents report seeing a hairy humanoid.

1951

(*) The UN General Assembly brands Communist China an aggressor in the Korean War.
(*) British spies Burgess and Maclean escape to the Soviet Union.
(*) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the U.S.
[U] Project Red Light begun in "Area 51" (aka "Dreamland") test flying alien space craft. They are guarded by Blue Berets.
[I] Mossad is reorganized and centralized.
[I] Columbia Broadcasting System begins active cooperation with the CIA.
[I] North Korean "Brainwashing" of American prisoners begins.
(*) Operation Buster-Jangle, first major series of Atomic Energy Commission above ground atomic testing in Nevada.
[M] Eric Shipton discovers a line of footprints on Everest.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Lachlan Stuart photographs the creature.
[M] Mrs. Hardy Reeser spontaneously combusts.
[U] Project Grudge is renamed Project Blue Book.
[U] EBE-1 becomes ill and is sent to Dr. Mendoze (see 1954)

1952

(*) Hostilities continue in Korea with increased UN air strikes against the north.
[I] CIA agents Downey and Fecteau captured while on spy mission in China.
[I] First UFO "contact" case; George Adamski meets "Venusians" in California Desert.
[U] The "Majestic 12" briefing is prepared for president-elect Eisenhower.
[U] EBE-1 dies, most likely from malnutrition.
[U] EBE-1 dies of unknown causes.
(*) Operation Ranger series of atomic tests (Shot Nancy).
[U] A large number of UFOs are seen over Washington DC.
[U] A briefing paper for president-elect Eisenhower by Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, described "Operation Majestic-12"
[U] UFOs sighted over Washington DC
[U] Year of maximum # of UFO sightings.

1953

(*) Dwight David Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th U.S. president; Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies; Georgy M. Malenkov becomes the new premier. Lavrenti Beria, head of the Soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
(*) An armistice ends the Korean War; the country remains divided into North and South.
(*) Nixon sworn in as VP.
(*) Watson and Crick decipher the structure of DNA.
[I] Return of Korean War prisoners, including some who had been brainwashed. 21 POWs defect back to China.
[I] CIA begins project to develop drugs to cause amnesia in retired agents.
[U] Alien vessel crashes near Kingman, Az.
[U] Project Gleen begun.
[I] Dr. Frank Olsen commits suicide after having been given a secret dose of LSD by the CIA, under the direction of the mysterious Dr. Sigmund Gottleib.
[I] The Soviets begin research on the effects of Microwaves on people.
[U] CIA's Robertson Panel views UFO reports as a national security threat.
(*) Operation Upshot-Knothole series of atomic tests (Shot Simon, Shot Harry).
[U] Large asteroid-ships are detected heading towards Earth. Project Plato is established to set up a dialogue.
[U] 10 UFOs crash in the US alone this year. Project Plato is established as a part of Grudge/Blue-Book to communicate (Establish diplomatic relations) with alien beings [allegedly with the giant alien ships approaching the Earth].
[U] Nordic aliens land at Homestead AFB., to warn us away from the threat posed by Grays.

1954

(*) French forces are defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam. The Geneva Conference establishes the partition of Vietnam into North and South.
(*) Senator Joseph McCarthy is discredited, condemned for failing to prove claims of communist penetration and charges of subversion in high places.
(*) A Supreme Court decision prohibits racial segregation in U.S. public schools.
(*) Shot Bravo, thermonuclear testing in the Pacific sheds fallout on the Marshall Islands.
(*) Attempted assassination of several US congressmen by Puerto Rican nationalists.
(*) Hunt involved in CIA backed coup d'etat in Guatemala.
[U] Broadcaster Frank Edwards is fired for discussing UFOs on the air.
[I] First Bilderberger meeting takes place at the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland.
(*) KGB formed.
[M] The Daily Mail sends an expedition to Nepal to capture a Yeti. All they bring back are scalps.
[U] Cutler/Twining Memo discusses MJ-12/SSP (Special Studies Project).
[U] Project Sigma is established as a part of Grudge/Blue Book to establish contact with the Aliens.
20 Feb
[U] President Eisenhower disappears from Palm Springs for four hours to meet with "Etherians" at Muroc (Theirs is the trilateral symbol).
[U] There is contact with Aliens (Big-Nosed Grays) at Holloman, AFB.; A second meeting with Eisenhower and "His Omnipotent Highness Krll (or Krlll)" results in a treaty. Krll remains behind as a "hostage". (He eventually sickens and is nursed by Dr. G. Mendoza, Earth's first xenobiologist).
[U] Project Snowbird is established as a front for and diversion from Redlight.
[U] Eisenhower is reputed to have viewed alien remains in "Hanger 18".

1955

(*) Operation Teapot series of atomic tests.
(*) Austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Barbazon, France
[J] Lee harvey Oswald meets David Ferrie of the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol.
[U] The Office of Naval Research receives a copy of Morris Jessup's Case for UFOs with marginal notes in three different hands ("Gypsies" knowledgeable in UFOlogy); An MIB called "Carlos Allende" is implicated in the affair.
[U] First flights of Project Red Light vessels.
[U] Mutilated humans are being found with mutilated animals, suggesting that the aliens aren't biding by the agreements.
[M] Abbe Bordet follows three Yeti trails in Himalayas.
[M] Squadron Leader Lester Davies films Yeti tracks in Himalayas.
[M] William Roe encounters a Sasquatch near Jasper, Alberta.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Peter McNab photographs the creature.
[M] The Joyita leaves Apia, W.Samoa for Fakafo, Tokelau isles. It is found with no crew.
[M] Frog-like humanoids are sighted near Loveland, (Colo. or Georgia?)
[M] The Komodo Dragon is "discovered".
Mar
[U] NSC 5410 establishes Majesty-12, a committee of 12 to oversee the "Alien Question", included people from the CFR (Particularly those from the "good old boy" networks of the Skull and Bones Society and the Key and Scroll Society).
OR [U] Eisenhower orders by executive memo (NSC 5412/1) the establishment of the 5412 Committee, or Special Group.
OR [U] Eisenhower orders by executive memo (NSC 5411), a study group of 35 "top men" (The Jason Society) associated with the CFR to examine "The Alien Question".
OR by NSC 5511, Eisenhower commissions a study group from the CFR to meet at Quantico (later known as Quantico II and the Country Club) to examine the question.

1956

(*) Tourism begins with the Soviet Union.
(*) Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua is assassinated.
[J] Clay Shaw allegedly severs contact with CIA.
[J] Oswald joins the Marines
(*) Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounces the crimes of the Stalin era.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Frednsborg, Denmark.
[U] Sgt. Jonathon P. Louette is abducted by an UFO from White Sands Missile Range. He is returned after three days having been horribly mutilated.

1957

(*) The Viet Cong begin acts of rebellion in South Vietnam.
4 Oct
(*) The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite.
(*) Scientists from 67 nations work together during the International Geophysical Year.
[I] Bilderberger meetings in St. Simon Island, Georgia, and Fiuggui, Italy.
(*) Operation Plumbob series of atomic tests (Shot Bolzmann, Shot Smokey).
[I] Alleged assassination of Joseph McCarthy at Bethesda Hospital Neurological Ward, after warning of Illuminati Plot.
[J] Oswald is assigned to airbase at Atsugi, Japan, where CIA U-2 flights are launched and landed. (He shoots himself in the elbow.)
[I] CIA forms Iran's SAVAK, or Secret Police force.
(*) Experiments in behavior modification sleep teaching take place at California Penal Institution Woodland Road Camp.
(*) Anti-Atomic Bomb propaganda is disseminated by UFO clubs.
[U] The Jason Society implements the massive selling of drugs, and places George Bush (president of Zapata Oil) in charge of the project.
[U] Underground bases are begun all over the country.
[M] Reports from upper Marleboro, Md of Hairy humanoid.
[U] UFO sightings at Levelland, Tx.
(*) Constance Whyte publishes More than a Monster, about the Loch Ness Monster.
[M] Dr. Alexander G. Pronin of Leningrad University encounters an Alma in the Pamir Mountains.

1958

(*) Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as Soviet premier.
(*) The European Economic Community (EEC) is established.
(*) The U.S. launches the Explorer I and Vanguard I scientific satellites.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Buxton, England. John Birch Society organized by Robert Welch.
[U] Alien vessel crashes near Woomera, Australia.
[U] Alien vessel crashes in Utah
(*) Operation Hardtack II (aka Operation Deadline) series of atomic tests.
[J] An unidentified ex-marine lives in Minsk, USSR, apparently gathering information for the CIA.
[J] Oswald on maneuvers in Philippines regarding U-2 flights.
(*) Francis Gary Powers is released from Air Force, and is assigned to covert CIA flying.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Alex Campbell sees two creatures simultaneously.
[M] Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew finds "Bigfoot" tracks in Humbolt County, Northern California.
[U] The Jason Society study presents 3 solutions to the problem of overpopulation and pollution. Alternative 1 was to use nuclear weapons to blow a hole in the stratosphere that would let the pollution escape. Alternative 2 was to build underground cities. Alternative 3 was extraPlanetary colonization. All three alternatives involved increasing birth control, sterilization and introduction of diseases into the Earth's population, specifically targeting Blacks, Hispanics, and Homosexuals.

1959

[J] Ruby visits casino owner in Havana.
(*) Fidel Castro assumes power in Cuba.
(*) Cuban Intelligence (DGI) established.
[J] Oswald is released from the Marines, and defects to Russia
20 Apr
[U] Morris Jessup commits suicide after receiving communications from "Carlos Allende".
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Yesilkov, Turkey.
[U] Alien wreckage is moved to Hanger 19, Wright Patterson AFB.
[U] Air force pursue aliens near Redmond, Or.
[J] Oswald leaves the Marines. He leaves the US, ostensibly for Switzerland. He enters USSR via Finland and reports his desire to remain. He is refused and attempts suicide. While in hospital he meets and unidentified American patient. Upon release, he is given a Temporary Resident Visa and is sent to Minsk, where he works in a radio factory.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Alex Campbell sees two creatures simultaneously, Tim Dinsdale films the monster, the first echo-soundings are taken of the Loch.
[U] Project Sign achieves success when the US establishes primitive contact with the aliens.
[U] A joint US/USSR base exists on the Moon by this time.

1960

(*) Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is abducted to Israel.
(*) The Soviets shoot down a U-2 spy plane; U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.
[I] CIA buys Southern Air Transport; begins development of "recruitment pills", studies mysterious amnesia of POWs moved through Manchuria, gives truth serum to brainwashed American POWs.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Bergenstock, Switzerland.
(*) Eisenhower authorizes training and arming of Cuban Exiles. Nixon, CIA agent Bissell and others plan the Bay of Pigs invasion, and obtain permission to use Guatemala as a launching point.
(*) Bernard Barker serves as a conduit for Bay of Pigs funding.
[J] Oswald is assigned a job in Belorussian Radio Factory in Minsk.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Torquil MacLeod.

1961

(*) Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th U.S. president; UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the Congo (Zaire). The Berlin Wall is constructed, separating East and West Berlin.
(*) The drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
(*) Eisenhower warns against the Military-Industrial Complex. Peace Corps established. Berlin Wall built.
[I] Sam Giancana and John Roselli are enlisted by the CIA to attempt Castro assassination.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Quebec, Canada.
(*) Attempted assassination of Castro by Hans Tanner.
[M] Michael Rockefeller disappears in New Guinea.
(*) CIA backed Bay of Pigs invasion fails due to poor planning and cancellation of air support by Kennedy; CIA, the Mob, Cuban-Exiles, Right-Wingers, and Nixonites supposedly vow revenge against Kennedy.
[J] Kennedy develops extracurricular relationship with Judith Campbell, Sam Giancana's girlfriend.
(*) Robert Morrow, working with Ruby, Shaw, and Ferrie allegedly smuggles weapons from Greece into Central America for the CIA. He also picks up information from "Harvey" a CIA agent in Russia.
[J] George DeMohrenschildt, a friend of the Kennedys, takes a hiking trip through Guatemala.
[J] Ferrie, Gordon Novel and two others are arrested in connection with a burglary of a Louisiana Arms Bunker.
[J] Unidentified ex-marine from Minsk divulges information to a CIA agent in Copenhagen.
[J] While living in Minsk and under strict KGB observation, Oswald marries Marina, whose father may or may not be a KGB agent.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: the Bureau for Investigating the Loch Ness Phenomena is formed.
(*) US Military Advisory Group begins defoliation project in Vietnam, which eventually covers 12% of land area.
(*) General Edwin Walker resigns from the Military after receiving official criticism of his anti-communism indoctrination of troops.

1962

(*) Burmese diplomat U Thant becomes the first Asian secretary general of the UN. The Cuban Missile Crisis; The U.S. launches Telstar, the first commercial communications satellite.
[M] Murder of Marilyn Monroe made to look as though it were a suicide.
[I] CIA begins use of assassination and terror teams in Vietnam, roots of Operation Phoenix. Dr. Edgar Schein outlines behavior modification program for US prisons based on Korean brainwashing techniques.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Saltsjobaden, Sweden.
[U] Alien vessel crashes in New Mexico. Alien vessel crashes in Queensland, Australia.
22 Mar
[U] A probe lands on Mars and confirms a life-sustaining environment.
[U] 1st men on Mars.
(*) Plowshare Program begins underground series of atomic tests. Shot Sedan causes major fallout.
[I] General Walker is arrested on Attorney General Robert Kennedy's orders when Walker becomes involved with racial conflicts in Oxford, Mississippi. (Walker is stripped naked and flown to Springfield, Missouri, prison for examination; Walker is reported to be incompetent but was later released and ran against John Connally for Governor of Texas.)
[I] Hunt becomes head of CIA's new Domestic Operations Division.
(*) CIA interferes with Equadoran Politics.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: W.F."Ted" Holiday.
[J] Ruby allegedly flies from Mexico City to visit Havana.
[J] Oswald returns to US with Marina, his Russian wife, who is allegedly a KGB agent. They live in New Orleans. Oswald allegedly meets Shaw, Ferrie and other operatives who work for the FBI and CIA. During this time, Ruby visits New Orleans in order to hire a stripper named "Jada", who becomes a featured performer. Oswald distributes "Fair Play for Cuba" leaflets from the same address as (ex-FBI) PI Guy Bannister's Office, which is also used for E. Howard Hunt's Cuban Revolutionary Council and other anti-Castro fronts. He has a confrontation with Carlos Bringuier, an agent for the CIA's Domestic Contact Service, in front of Shaw's International Trade Mart. Oswald provokes (or asks for) Bringuier to hit him. Oswald pleads guilty when they are both arrested, then asks to see an FBI agent. He is released and appears on radio and TV the next day to publicize his Pro-Cuban activities. Oswald, Ferrie and Shaw allegedly attempt to register to vote in rural Clinton Louisiana, attracting attention by arriving in a black Cadillac. Oswald moves to Dallas.
[J] DeMohrenschildt befriends the Oswalds in Dallas.
[U] Project Redlight begun?
(*) X-15 reaches height of 15 miles.

1963

(*) A limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is signed by Britain, the U.S., and the USSR. British spy Harold (Kim) Philby defects to the USSR.
(*) Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam.
[U] President Kennedy threatens to reveal the MJ-12/Jason Society drug running scheme.
[J] Oswald allegedly attempts to assassinate General Walker in Dallas. He and Marina separate.
Sept
(*) Oswald visits Mexico City traveling with Albert Osborne, who paid for the "Hands off Cuba" leaflets; visits Soviet Embassy to request protection from the FBI. They turn him away, and he then visits the Cuban embassy to try and get a visa to travel to Cuba. They reject him as well. He returns to Dallas. During the time of that trip: "Harvey Oswald" appeared at the selective service office in Austin Tx, to discuss his discharge; Cuban refugee Leader Sylvia Odio is visited by a pair of Hispanics and "Leon/Leonardo Osward" to discuss anti-Castro activities and revenge against Kennedy; someone looking like Oswald appeared at Dallas rifle ranges.
Late Sep-Early Oct
(*) Oswald begins to work at the TSBD.
Sept-Nov
(*) Soon after returning from Mexico City, Oswald (who can't drive) drives with his wife Marina to Alice TX to talk to the manager of station KPOY; he attends General Walker's John Birch Society meeting lecture and two nights later attends an ACLU meeting where he criticizes Walker's racism. Oswald visits Irving TX and visits a furniture store; a sporting good store where he has three holes drills (although when it is found, his rifle has only two holes, drilled before he bought it); cashes a $189 check in order to buy some strange groceries; has his hair cut and exchanges some Leftist comments with a teenager; visits the Lord-Lincoln auto agency and test drives a car at 70 mph talking about coming into money soon and returning to Russia. Oswald writes a letter to the Dallas FBI that is destroyed after the assassination. He corresponds with "Mr. Hunt" asking to "discuss the matter fully before matters are taken by me or anyone else". He is seen in the Carousel Club plotting with Ruby, Officer Tippet, and/or Bernard Weissman. "Lee Oswald of the CIA" is introduced to "the Babushka Lady" (Later filmed at Dealy Plaza) by Jack Ruby. He ordered the distribution of the anti-Kennedy "wanted for Treason" leaflets.
Nov 18
(*) JFK in Miami. There is an assassination attempt, but it is blown by right wing National States Rights Party leader Joseph Milteer)
[J] There was also allegedly an attempted assassination of JFK in Chicago.
Nov 19
Oswald
Nov 20
(*) Oswald makes a scene in a restaurant where he was "glowered" at by Officer JD Tippet.
Nov 21
(*) JFK flies from Washington to San Antonio, then to Houston, then to Fort Worth.
Nov 22
(*) JFK flies from Fort Worth to Dallas.
(*) There was the Umbrella Man in the crowd. The Epileptic.
[J] John F. Kennedy is Assassinated in Dallas, TX and Governor John Connally is wounded. There is either a lone gunman in the Texas School Book Depository building; a shooter in the TSBD, and one on the "Grassy Knoll"; or Three gunmen, including one firing from atop the railroad bridge. Three Tramps were arrested soon after the assassination; two of whom resemble E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. At the moment of the assassination Oswald was photographed standing in the doorway of the TSBD. George DeMohrenschildt claimed that he and Oswald were watching the parade when the shots were fired, at which point Oswald ran. He is seen fleeing the TSBD by the rear door immediately after the assassination. He is seen eating in the lunch room of the TSBD 90 seconds after the assassination. He is seen (by Deputy Roger Craig) leaving the TSBD by the front door 15 mins after the assassination, and being picked up by a black man driving his landlady's car. According to witnesses, Owald murders Officer JD Tippet, then runs to the Texas Theater where he enters without paying and is arrested by a large number of policemen. Nixon was in Dallas on 22 November 1963, for a convention of Pepsi Cola executives, although he allegedly left by plane an hour before the assassination. J. Edgar Hoover may have been in Dallas as well, as might have been oil executive George Bush. Texas oilman H.L. Hunt was taken into protective custody by federal agents after the assassination and kept in another city for a few days (DeMohrenschidt would alter claim to have been the link between Oswald and H.L. Hunt in an FBI/Right Wing plot to kill Kennedy). Ferrie may have flown to Dallas on the night of the 22d. Cuban Bay of Pigs vet Ruedolo arrives in Madrid, Spain five days after the assassination, and is jailed for having an invalid visa. Jack Zangetti, and Oklahoma City motel manager is murdered after telling friends the day after the assassination that Ruby would kill Oswald and that a member of the Sinatra Family would be kidnapped soon afterward to divert attention away from the assassination (Frank Sinatra Jr was kidnapped and released unharmed).
[J] Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby while in police custody, on television. Lyndon Johnson is inaugurated on the plane back to Washington. By the end of the day, the various agencies involved will have so muddied the evidence that there is no way the truth will EVER be conclusively known.
(*) Johnson immediately reverses JFK's decision to withdraw from Vietnam.
(*) Ecuadorian government is overthrown.
(*) Profumo scandal in England, involving sex and spying.
[U] Alien Space Craft crashes in the Balkans, yielding 12 bodies.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Cannes, France.
[I] CIA begins weather modification project over Hue, Vietnam.
[U] British government contacts aliens.

1964

[I] Bilderberger meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia.
[U] US government contacts aliens at Holloman AFB, and in NM.
(*) Pike Event, an underground nuclear test causes major fallout as far south as Las Vegas.
[J] Kennedy Deaths: Betty Mooney MacDonald (former Carousel Club stripper who had met Oswald at a party and had provided an alibi for Darrell Wayne Garner (who was accused of wounding Tippet-Killing witness Warren Reynolds)) is found hanging in her cell after being arrested for fighting with her roommate; Garner disappears and is later found dead; Hank Killam (whose wife Wanda was also a stripper at Ruby's club, and who was a friend of John Carter who once lived in Oswald's rooming house) evades police for several months, then is found in Pensacola, Florida with a slashed throat; Gary Underhill (former "Life" editor and CIA agent who begged friends to protect him because he knew who killed Kennedy) is found shot in the left side of the head (which is ruled suicide even though Underhill was right handed); Bill Hunter (Long Beach Press-Telegram reporter, who, with Jim Koethe, was present at a meeting with Ruby's roommate, George Senator, and Ruby's attorney Tom Howard a few hours after Oswald is killed) is accidentally shot and killed by a policeman at the Long Beach Police Station; Jim Koethe (Dallas Times-Harold reporter) is killed by a karate chop to the throat as he stepped from his shower; Mary Meyer (painter, and former JFK lover) shot while taking a walk in Washington DC (her diary is confiscated by her CIA friend James Angleton, and it is later destroyed); RFK is stalked during his senatorial race by Ruby associate Frank Chavez, Puerto Rican teamster Ramon Ducos and Miguel Cruz (who may have been arrested with Oswald in New Orleans and claimed to have killed JFK); Chavez is later killed by Cruz. Warren Commission report is released, finding that Oswald, acting alone killed JFK.
[U] Alien contact at Holloman AFB.
[U] The NSA takes over authority of Project Sigma.
Apr 25
[U] Lonnie Zamora, a Policeman in Sorocco NM sees two aliens near a landed vehicle; 12 hours later, three vessels make a landing at Holloman AFB. The "EBE" bodies are returned to the Aliens.

1965

(*) Malcolm X is assassinated.
[J] Kennedy Deaths: Tom Howard (Ruby's Attorney) died of a heart attack after "acting strangely" for 2 days. no autopsy; Rose Cherami (former Carousel Club stripper who told a psychiatrist that Kennedy was to be killed two days before the assassination) is killed in a hit-and-run accident near Big Sandy TX; Dorothy Kilgallen (columnist and TV panel show figure who'd had a private half hour interview with Ruby) is found dead in her apartment OD'd on alcohol and barbiturates; William Whaley (Dallas cabbie who drove Oswald from TSBD to his rooming house after the assassination) becomes the first on-duty cabbie death in over thirty years; Karen Bennett Carlin (Carousel entertainer who reported seeing Bernard Weissman and was the last known person to speak to Ruby before he shot Oswald) is shot in the head in Houston.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Lake Como, Italy.
[U] Alien vessel crashes near Kecksburg, PA.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Seven years of searching is rewarded when Frank Seale sights the monster, W.F. "Ted" Holiday.
[I] Project Pandora begins in the US, to determine the effects of low level microwaves on people.
[U] Four UFOs are sighted, flying in a diamond formation, from Oklahoma to New Mexico.

1966

[M] There is a summer rash of Surrey "Puma" sightings. (Hampshire)
[M] "Spook lights" are observed in Michigan.
[U] A series of well-publicized sightings in Michigan trigger an upsurge in UFO interest. Eventually this interest results in the Condon Committee.
(*) Dr. Carroll Quigley publishes Tragedy and Hope, the result of 20 years research into the "Conspiracy".
(*) E. Howard Hunt serves as CIA contact in assassination plot against Castro.
[J] Kennedy Deaths: Ex-naval LT William Pitzer (who had photographed the JFK autopsy, and was beginning a new job with a TV station) is shot in the head.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Weisbaden, Germany.
[U] Project Aquarius begun.
[M] A "Skunk Ape" is sighted near El Fers, Florida.

1967

[I] Bilderberger meeting in Cambridge, England.
[I] CIA's Operation Phoenix, which will assassinate and torture over 40,000 people in Vietnam is launched.
[I] Beginning of CIA's $21 million rainmaking program over Indochina, which will make 2,600 sorties by 1972. Black Panther Party formed. Greece taken over by Project Prometheus.
[M] Jim Thompson, ex-OSS operative, and "Silk King of Thailand" disappears on Easter Sunday.
[U] Animal mutilations begun near Alamosa, Colo.
(*) American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell is killed. Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia after CIA questioning.
[J] Kennedy Deaths: Jack Ruby dies of cancer; David Ferrie commits suicide by brain hemorrhage; Eladio del Valle (a friend of Ferrie's, and who flew bombing missions with him over Cuba) is shot through the head in Miami the same day Ferrie died; Dr. Mary Sherman (another friend of Ferrie's) is shot in New Orleans and her body partially burned by her killer. Beginning of the Clay Shaw trial; New Orleans DA Jim Garrison subpoenas Allan Dulles and ex-CIA employee Gordon Novel to testify, but neither does. Congressional Legislation forced the Kennedy family to turn over all materials pertaining to the Assassination to the National Archives. JFKs Brain is missing.
[I] La Costa Resort hotel built near San Clemente CA. It will serve as a meeting place for Mob figures, Teamsters, Politicians, and other Big Wigs.
[M] A logger, Glenn Thomas, sees three big hairy figures digging for rodents near the Round Mountain, in Oregon.
[M] Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin film a creature in Del Norte county in Northern California.
[M] A Money Pit exploratory group brings up oak buds, fragments of 16th century wood and a piece of antique brass.

1968

(*) Schooner Event, an underground nuclear test causes major fallout as far north as Canada.
4 Apr
[I] Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI begins to search for James Earl Ray as the Lone Gunman despite evidence of a larger conspiracy.
[J] Kennedy Deaths: RFK is killed in Los Angeles (shot in the back of the head from a gun in front of him. Sirhan Sirhan doesn't remember what happened, but Security Guard Eugene Cesar, who carries the same caliber weapon as Sirhan, and was standing right behind RFK does remember); Dr. Nicholas Chetta (who performed the autopsies on Ferrie and Dr. Sherman) died of a heart attack. Richard Carr (JFK assassination witness who is about to appear in Shaw Trial) learns that police have arrested a man planning to kill him.
(*) Mobs riot outside the Democratic National Headquarters in Chicago
(*) "Zodiac", an unidentified serial killer stalks women in San Francisco
[U] Air Force officially denies the existence of UFOs.
(*) A large number of world leaders are assassinated this year, including Martin Luther King, and RFK.
[I] Approximate date of the founding of the Kaisers -- 60 German-Americans who plan to make Nixon a dictator.
[M] Mystery ship Sheersberg disappears between Antwerp and Genoa with 200 tons of uranium
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Mont Tremblant, Canada.
[U] Project Porence begun to evaluate Alien information.
[I] Dr. Curt Strand at the Soder Hospital in Stockholm begins implanting "Brain transmitters" into human beings (These eventually are able to, via RHIC (Radio-Hypnotic Intracerebral Control), EDOM (Electronic Dissolution of Memory) and ESB (Electronic Stimulation of Brain), give total control over the people into whom they have been inserted).
[U] MJ-12 becomes known as the 50 Committee.
(*) Apollo 8 orbits the Moon.
[U] Apollo 8 photographs UFO Luna Base.

1969

[M] The "Lake Worth Monster" (A giant white biped) is seen near Fort Worth.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.
[I] Nixon signs Executive order #11490 establishing plans for dictatorial control in the event of a national emergency, and consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over the previous 15 years.
[I] CIA's Colton Westbrook returns from the Phoenix Program in Vietnam to become involved with the Black Culture Association (BCA) program in California prisons.
[U] MIB "Carlos Allende" visits UFOlogists Jim and Carol Lorenzen, and gives them an ONR reprint copy of Jessup's Case for the UFOs.
[U] US government makes a deal with aliens to allow abductions in exchange for technology.
[U] Condon Report denies the existence of UFOs, ending all official Air Force interest in the subject.
[U] Jimmy Carter sees a UFO after leaving a Lions Club meeting in Leroy, GA.
[J] Kennedy deaths: Clyde Johnson (who attended parties with Ferrie and Oswald, and was beaten up to keep him from testifying at Shaw trial) shot to death near Greensburg LA; Richard Carr is attacked by two men with knives near Atlanta; Mary Jo Kopechne dies near Chappaquidick in accident with Edward Moore Kennedy.
(*) Trial of Clay Shaw for conspiracy to assassinate JFK concludes. Shaw is found not guilty.
[M] Fifteen Russian Generals die in "unrelated" incidents in a month's time.
[U] Project Grudge/Blue Book is closed. Project Aquarius is established.
[U] An agreement is made with Aliens.
[U] A confrontation between the US and USSR on Moon over the Lunar Moonbase.
[U] *(Date Uncertain) An underground Base is built under the Archuletta Mesa near Dulce, NM (and Kirkland?). It is to this base that the majority of abductees are taken and slaughtered.
20 July
(*) Apollo 11 lands on the Moon. ([U] The astronauts see UFOs while on the surface).

1970

[I] Bilderberger meeting in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.
[I] Nixon staffers develop the Huston Plan and "plumbers unit" in plot to use police and intelligence agencies at all levels for political purposes. Attorneys Lefcourt in New York and Gray in San Francisco are subject to the first of over 100 unsolved break-ins over the next five years.
[I] FBI/Police attacks on Black Panthers.
[I] CIA begins administering personality affecting Prolexin in California prisons.
(*) Baneberry Event, an underground nuclear test causes major fallout.
(*) Korean CIA undertakes a massive influence peddling campaign, eventually 50 congressmen accept bribes and links are make between the Nixon Administration and the Unification Church.
[M] Don Whillans sees a giant ape creature on Mount Annapurna.
[M] A "Skunk Ape" is sighted near Big Cypress Swamp, Florida.
[M] A huge black cat "Panther" is seen near Cairo. Ill.
[I] Weathermen are arrested for Bomb plot.

1971

(*) Black Panther party is in shambles.
(*) Pentagon Papers published.
(*) Prince Sihanouk is ousted by the Khmer Rouge.
[M] Daughter of conspiracy investigator Mae Brussell is killed in a suspicious car accident.
[I] Hunt is hired by the White House to gather damaging evidence against Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Kennedy and other "enemies". Hunt hires Barker and other Bay of Pigs veterans to make a break in at Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Barker attempts to get plans to building that will house the Democratic Convention. Plumber Chief David Young, former Kissinger aide, contacts CIA for a psychiatric profile of Ellsberg. He is referred to Howard Osborn, a possible Oswald link. White House agent Segretti meets with FBI, Minutemen and others to plan kidnapping of radicals during the 1972 Convention, a plan later scrapped.
[I] The FBI begins (or continues) illegal break-ins, mail openings and wiretaps, conducted by Squad 47 of the Internal Security Division, in search of Weather Underground fugitives.
[I] The Disinformation Classic "The Anarchist's Cookbook" is published.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Woodstock, Vt.
[M] "Deprogrammer" Ted Patrick begins capturing Jesus Freaks and reconverting them to conventional behavior.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Frank Seale photographs the monster.
[M] The Apeman called "Mo-Mo" (for Missouri Monster) is sighted near the town of Louisiana, Missouri.

1972

(*) Attempted assassination of George Wallace in Maryland by "loner" Art Bremer (who had more money than he should, and who had alleged connections with CIA-types).
(*) J. Edgar Hoover dies.
(*) Watergate break-in. FBI official Charles Bates is placed in charge of the Investigation.
(*) Spiro Agnew meets with Carlos Bringuier (The guy who punched Oswald for handing out Fair Play for Cuba flyers).
(*) CIA attempts to crack Jack Anderson's information source, and fails.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Knokke, Belgium.
[U] Project Snowbird begins as a cover for the revitalized Project Redlight's attempts to fly a vessel built with alien technology.
[M] A Russian Doctor meets a family of Almas.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Dr. Robert H. Rines and a team of investigators from the Academy of Applied Sciences at MIT take photographs and sonar soundings of the creature in the Loch, Dennis Stacy.
[M] A monster hunt near Louisiana, Missouri, turns up no sign of Mo-Mo.
[U] The testing center at Groom Lake is shut down for two years while an underground facility is built. By the end of 1972 there are six bases (Groom Lake, Archuletta Mesa, "Sunspot", "Pietown", "Datil", and Roswell)
[U] Project Redlight is resumed.
[M] Another frog-man is seen near Loveland, Co.
[M] A Money Pit exploratory group a team sinks a dry shaft near the area. They send down an underwater TV camera and photograph what looks like logs, sea chests, and the grisly image of a severed human hand, half clenched, its flesh preserved by the salty water and the absence of oxygen.
16 Oct
[M] House Majority Leader Hale Boggs (D-Louisiana) (*Warren Commission dissident) and Rep. Nick Begich (D-Alaska) vanish while flying over Alaska.
8 Dec
[M] United Airlines flight 553 from Washington to Chicago crashes at Midway Airport. Among the deaths were: Dorothy Hunt (Wife of E. Howard Hunt) carrying $50,000 in Watergate payoff funds and close to $2 million that she was attempting to place in foreign banks; Michele Clark (CBS reporter who was to have interviewed Ms. Hunt); at least four people alleged to have knowledge of a large labor union "donation" to the Committee to ReElect the President who were paid to stop the indictment of a Chicago Labor hoodlum; a group of gas pipeline lobbyists, attorneys and gas company officials (Robert Moreau, Nancy Parker, Ralph Blodgett, James Drueger, Lon Bayer, Wilbur Erickson) who had allegedly gathered evidence against former Attorney General John Mitchell in an anti-trust case involving El Paso Natural Gas Co; "Harold Metcalf", a hit man using the cover of a DEA agent who informed the pilot, Captain Whitehouse, that he had a gun, and was assigned a seat near the galley. After the crash, Cpt. Whitehouse and six of the Watergate related passengers were found to have unexplainably high cyanide contents, although the other 35 passengers who were killed did not. "Harold Metcalf" walked away from the crash. Up to 200 FBI and CIA agents took over the crash site immediately, beating the fire department to the scene, refusing to allow in a medical team, confiscating the control tower tapes, interviewing survivors and witnesses before the National Transportation Safety Board investigators had a chance to. There is considerable evidence of equipment sabotage. An in-flight robbery gang known as the Joseph Sarelli Mob came into possession of some of the Hunt Money and Mitchell documents after the crash and sold them for $5 million. The day after the crash Nixon Aide Egil Krogh Jr is appointed Undersecretary of Transportation and is placed in charge of the two agencies investigating the crash (the FAA and the NTSB); ten days later Nixon assistant Alexander Butterfield, a CIA-Aviation liaison is appointed head of the FAA; a few weeks later Nixon Aide Dwight Chapin becomes a top aide with United Airlines.
29 Dec
[M] Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashes into the Everglades. The spirits of the captain and flight engineer haunt numerous flights after.

1973

(*) Trilateral Commission is founded under the direction of David Rockefeller, with Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Henry Kissinger, the DuPonts among the founding members.
(*) Sidney Gottleib, head of CIA's LSD and other Drug programs destroys records to hide the details of the program.
(*) Hunt is beaten in his cell before testifying about the Bremer Connection
(*) During investigation of the flight 533 crash, Alex Botto Jr infiltrates the Joseph Sarelli air piracy gang for the Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts. He is seized by Federal Marshals, taken to the federal Prison Hospital at Springfield MO and held for 40 days without a hearing or trial. Eventually, he and others testify that there was evidence from the flight in the gang's possession.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Saltsjobaden, Sweden.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Rev. Donald Ormand and W.F."Ted" Holiday attempt to exorcise the Loch.
[M] A "Skunk Ape" is sighted in Florida.
[U] Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler, two well connected LA businessmen are invited to Norton AFB to see a film of the Holloman landing (although they are told that it took place in 1971).
[U] It becomes obvious to the government that "Thousands" of people are being abducted by Aliens who are not on the agreed upon list.

1974

[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Frank Seale.
[M] Karen Silkwood killed in a car accident while investigating improper use of plutonium in Oklahoma.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Megeve, France.
[I] George Bush, as head of the Republican Party orders Nixon's resignation.
(*) CIA uses the Glomar Explorer to raise a portion of a Russian submarine that was sunk under mysterious circumstances.
[J] Kennedy Deaths: Joseph A. Milteer (who blew the Miami plot and was allegedly present at Dealy Plaza) died two weeks after a Coleman stove blew up in his bathroom, although the burns on the body may not have been severe enough to cause death; Clay Shaw is found dead in his home (after an ambulance delivers a body sized bundle there) cause of death undetermined because the body was embalmed too soon.
(*) Warren Commission alumnus Gerald Ford becomes President.
[I] Chase Manhattan and other large banks begin dumping municipal security bonds, touching off a financial crisis for New York City in the next year.
[I] There is an unsolved break-in at Howard Hughes' Hollywood headquarters. Numerous documents are taken that are of interest to the CIA, the Mafia and the White House.
(*) Representative Wilbur Mills resigns after scandals.
[M] There is a wave of cattle mutilations across Nebraska and South Dakota.
[M] There are multiple humanoids sighted in Argentina.

1975

(*) Rockefeller Commission looks into CIA misconduct.
(*) After 14 years of civil war, Angola is granted its freedom from Portugal. This is immediately followed by 16 years of civil war.
(*) Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford by Manson follower "Squeeky" Linnette Fromme. A second attempt is made by Jane Moore soon follows.
(*) Jimmy Hoffa disappears.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Cesme, Turkey.
[J] Kennedy Deaths: Roger Craig (ex Dallas Deputy who claimed to have seen Oswald leaving the TSBD) is found shot to death, a victim of suicide.
[U] An Ontario carpenter, Robert Suffern sees a UFO and an alien. He reports the sighting, and is eventually visited by US and Canadian officials who apologize for the landing.
[U] UFO contact in South Africa leave overwhelming evidence.
[M] Loch Ness Monster sightings: Dr. Robert H. Rines and a team of investigators from the Academy of Applied Sciences at MIT take photographs and sonar soundings of the creature in the Loch. They get the "Fin" picture.
[M] Alan Wetheral first comes forward claiming that the "surgeon's photo" of the Loch Ness Monster is a fake.

1976

(*) The first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurs in Philadelphia.
(*) US ambassador Francis Meloy in Lebanon and three American Rockwell International employees are killed by "Islamic Marxists" in Iran.
[U] Project Sigma begun to reestablish communication with aliens.
[J] Kennedy Deaths: Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli are murdered in separate incidents, supposedly to keep them from talking about the CIA-Mafia involvement in the JFK assassination and the attempts against Castro.
[M] El Paso Army Spy Ralph Sigler is found in a Ft. Meade MD motel, electrocuted by a live lamp cord taped to his wrist. The Army determines that it was suicide. Three months earlier another Army spy was found shot to death at White Sands NM
[I] Bilderberger meeting canceled due to Prince Bernhard/Lockheed bribery scandal.
[I] Nogales AZ meeting with Russian Delegation attended by many CFR/Bilderberg figures.
[I] President Elect Carter leaves for vacation on St. Simon Island, first of several visits to the Georgia coastal island of Bilderberg Fame and immediately north of Jeckyl Island where the Federal Reserve Plot was hatched in 1910.
(*) Sex scandals compromise Senator Wayne Hayes and other members of Congress. Korean bribery of congressmen reported.
[J] House committee established to investigate the JFK and MLK assassinations (HSCA, House Select Committee on Assassinations). HSCA determines that there were 2 gunmen, firing 4 shots.
(*) Swine flu scare.
[M] First sighting of the Nottingham "Lion". It is followed by over sixty sightings in the next week.
[M] Foul smelling humanoids are seen near Baltimore, Md.

1977

(*) 2 Voyager probes launched.
15 Aug
[U] The "Big Ear" at Ohio State receives the "Wow" message.
(*) Murder of Union leader Al Bramlet in Las Vegas.
(*) Murder of Charles Nicolettim, a crime syndicate chief with close ties to Sam Giancana and the CIA
[J] Kennedy Deaths: George DeMohrenschildt (after learning that the House assassinations committee wanted to interview him) commits suicide; two days later Dutch journalist Willem Oltmanns testified to the committee that DeMohrenschildts had confessed to him several months earlier that Oswald had "Acted on his instructions" in the plot to murder JFK, and that DeMohrenschildt had acted as the middle man between Oswald and H.L.Hunt; DeMohrenschildt alleged to have left a document naming CIA and FBI officials connected with the assassination in his office. Carlos Prio Sacarras (ex-president of Cuba, former business partner of Jack Ruby in Havana casino, former gunrunner to Pro-Castro guerrillas, who had felt betrayed by Castro and then supported the Bay of Pigs invasion) committed suicide a week after DeMohrenschildt; Lou Staples (Radio talk show host of KRLD in Dallas and KTOK in OKC, who had interviewed Penn Jones, Roger Craig, Mae Brussell and other JFK investigators) falls victim to suicide in OKC.
(*) "Son of Sam" serial killings in New York. When caught, David Berkowitz claimed that "Voices of demons" made him commit his crimes.
[I] Bilderberger meeting in Torquay, England.
[I] Alex Douglas-Home chosen new Bilderberg chairman.
[I] Douglas-Home admits that Bilderberg meetings influence world events. Davis Aaron is Carter Administration representative at Torquay meeting.
[M] Mysterious object with a high level of radioactivity falls near Wakefield, NH; removed by unnamed officials who give no explanation.
[U] "Incident" between UFOS and Government (see 1979)
[M] There is a summer rash of Surrey "Puma" sightings. (London, Brighton, Reigate)
[M] "Champ" is photographed by Sandra Mansi, in Lake Champlain.
[M] The "Dover Demon" (a large headed "cat-man") is seen south of Boston, Mass.
[U] There is an incident between to MPs and an Alien near a Missile Silo at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City SD.
[U] "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" begins an attempt to "sell" the Aliens to the public.

1978

(*) Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered. Jonestown Massacre.
(*) Camp David Summit meeting between Egypt and Israel.
(*) The Vietnamese invade Cambodia, and oust the Khmer Rouge (Unveiling the slaughtering of millions of Cambodians by Pol Pot).
[J] Attempted murder of Larry Flynt in Lawrenceville GA after he announces a $1 million reward for new information in the JFK assassination, and releasing the "Gemstone File" that reportedly implicates government figures in the murder. Jimmy Carter's brother Billy is investigated for making threatening remarks against Flynt several weeks earlier. Also suspected was Mitchell Werbell, inventer of the silent M-11 rifle used by the CIA, and a Soldier of fortune with links to clandestine activity in Vietnam, Guatemala and Dealy Plaza.
[I] Bilderberger meeting near Princeton, NJ.
[U] Walton taken by humans and humanoid aliens.
[M] Lord Hunt photographs Yeti tracks.
[I] The CIA begins to experiment with ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) magnetic fields and EEG Entrainment.
[M] A series of loud noises are heard along the East Coast of the US, they continue into early the next year.
[U] Paul Bennewitz begins to see UFO near the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility and the Coyote Canyon Test Area near Kirtland AFB, in central New Mexico.
[U] There is an altercation between Aliens and the Military at the Archuletta Mesa laboratory. 44 scientists are killed as well as 66 Delta Force/Blue Berets.

1979

(*) Three Mile Island leak.
(*) Somoza is ousted in Nicaragua.
(*) US. Embassy in Tehran is seized and hostages taken.
(*) Soviets enter Afghanistan.
(*) Vietnamese take control of Cambodia. The US begins to support the Khmer Rouge as the legal government.
[M] New Frogman sightings near Loveland, Co.
[U] Rudy Warner sees a UFO near San Antonio, Tx.
[U] Discovery of a saucer landing site near Lake City, Mn.
[?] There are rumors of US submarine bases in the Mediterranean, and US military lasers being used in European bank robberies.
[U] An "incident" occurs between Aliens and US military at Area 51; nearly 66 people are killed. Most are Blue Berets.

1980

(*) Banking deregulated.
(*) Hostage rescue fails in Iran.
(*) 25 people die from Toxic Shock Syndrome.
(*) El Salvadoran "Death Squads" murder a large number of Salvadoran citizens.
[U] William Moore begins to reveal MJ12 secrets, and the Roswell mystery.
[U] Craig Weitzel, a Civil Air Patrol cadet, and ten other Air Force personnel near Kirtland AFB, NM. There are a number of other reports regarding Kirtland AFB UFO sightings in this year.
[U] A number of defensive efforts, of which the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is most obvious are begun.
[U] Project Snowbird vessel seen near Huffman, TX during testing.

1981

(*) Iranians release the hostages (Because of an agreement by the incoming Republican administration to exchange weapons for them).
(*) Strange immunological disease noted by the Center for Disease Control.
[I] The P2 (Propaganda Due) Scandal is revealed in Italy, providing a Masonic link between Italian and American banking, the Vatican, the Mafia and the KGB.
[U] The 50 Committee (MJ-12) is renamed the PI-40 Committee.
[U] The Alien Alliance (CFR/Jason Society) is resumed.
[U] There is an increase in UFO sightings worldwide.
[U] First flights of TR-39/Black Mamba/Aurora, build with reverse engineered alien technology.
[M] The "Beast of Truro", a giant cat-like creature is sighted near Truro, on Cape Cod.
[I] The CIA begins to regularly utilize remote Mind Control Technology, based on the work of Dr Strand in the late 60s.

1982

(*) World Wide Oil Glut damages the economies of oil producing nations.
(*) Falkland Islands War.
(*) The bodies of over a 1000 "disappeared" are found in Argentina.
(*) A civilian government takes over in Honduras, although the military is backed by US.
[I] The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail is published. Its authors come under massive criticism and threats.
[U] EBE-3 becomes a "Guest" of the US government.
[J] HSCA findings are allegedly discredited by a National Academy of Science study.
[I] General Richard Secort and Col. Oliver North are placed in charge of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).[Date Uncertain]

1983

(*) Aquino is assassinated in Manila.

1984

(*) Aids virus isolated.
(*) Federal estimate of 350,000 homeless in US.
[U] A meeting is held at MJ-12's "Country Club" sparks a factional fight over what to do about the "Alien Problem". They resolve to hold off from the original plan of full revelation by 1987 and continue to work on defensive technology.
1 Aug
(*) "Lindow Man" is unearthed from Lindow Moss, near Manchester, England.

1985

(*) President Reagan proposes a space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
(*) Mikhail Gorbachev is chosen as Chairman of the USSR.
(*) US trade balance becomes negative.
(*) Terrorism becomes a common tactic of splinter groups.
[I] The A-Albionic Consulting and Research reveals that the British royal family is behind all the evils of the world.

1986

(*) Challenger Disaster effectively cripples the NASA manned space program for several years.
(*) English Channel project given the go-ahead.
(*) Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
(*) The "Arms for Hostages" arrangement with Iran becomes known.
(*) The Civilian government returns to power in Guatemala.
[U] Beginnings of the Gulf Breeze sightings. There will be over a thousand in the next 10 years.

1987

(*) The Iran-Contra Hearings.
(*) Miniature Stock Market Crash.
[U] An accident at Area 51 results in a Matter-Antimatter explosion.
[I] The CIA begins to experiment with ELF "Death Rays".
[I] The FDA covers up old information on AZT to get it approved for use against AIDS as part of the plan to poison and kill off the homosexual population.
[M] "Operation Deepscan", studying Lock Ness, picks up three unidentified targets.

1988

Oct
[U] The International Astronomical Congress adopts the protocol "The Declaration of Principals Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence".
(*) The US Navy shoots down an Iranian airliner.
(*) A Pan-Am jetliner explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland.
(*) 3,000 US troops are sent to Honduras to defend the government from the Nicaraguan army.
[U] Milton William Cooper reveals to the ParaNet secrets that he'd learned while in the Navy. Eventually he submits a "Petition to Indict" the members of MJ-12, and especially George Bush.
[U] Alien vessel crashes near Dalnegorsk.

1989

(*) George Bush inaugurated as president to the US.
(*) US declared "War on Drugs".
(*)"Operation Just Cause" Panama invasion topples Manuel Noriega because of his links to drug trafficking.
[I] Oddly enough drug traffic through Panama has *increased* since his ouster. There are also numerous rumors of mass graves dug by the US military to conceal the numbers of civilians killed during the operation.
(*) Tianenman Square demonstration in PRC.
(*) Federally insured Bank losses.
(*) Soviet Union pulls back from Afghanistan.
(*) The Berlin Wall comes down.
(*) The Salvadoran guerilla FMLN mount a military offensive against the US backed Salvadoran Army.
[I] The A-Albionic Consulting and Research determines that the British royal family's battle against the Vatican is behind all the evils of the world.
[U] Moore reveals that he has been working to spread UFO disinformation.
[U] Robert Lazar is interviewed by George Knapp on KLAS-TV, Las Vegas.
[U] "UFO Cover-Up...Live" airs as a disinformation coup of unparalleled success.
[U] Crop Circles seen in England.
[U] Alien vessel crashes near Dalney Vostok.
[M] The Ebola Virus escapes into a Washington suburb.

1990

(*) Iraq invades Kuwait. US organizes expeditionary force in opposition.
(*) US support of the Khmer Rouge is withdrawn, to be replaced by that of the PRC.
(*) The UN sponsors a treaty in El Salvador between the Government and the Communist guerrillas.
(*) The Berlin Wall comes down, leading to the Reunification of the Germanies.
(*) In Nicaragua, free elections oust Daniel Ortega. Both the Sandanistas and the Contras are allegedly demobilized and disarmed.
[M] Sometime during the early 90s, "Project Urqhart", a study of Loch Ness' biology and geology picks up a moving object on sonar.

1991

(*) Gulf War.
(*) Coup foiled in USSR. Soviet Union splinters and dissolves into constituent republics. Gorbachev resigns.
(*) Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Cambodia.
[U] Crop-Circles are alleged to be a fraud, but this is not believed.
[J] Oliver Stone's JFK shows in Theaters. Congress declassifies more materials, and the CIA declassifies even more. Dec 24
(*) Mikhail Gorbachev resigns, officially signaling the end of the Soviet government.

1992

(*) William Jefferson Clinton is elected President.
(*) NASA'a High Resolution Microwave Survey is begun.
(*) Due to continuing economic difficulties in Nicaragua, Recontras and Recompas units are taking up arms.
(*) President Najibullah is ousted from power in Afghanistan.
[U] Mars orbiter destroyed while enroute to Mars.
(*) There is a resurgence of Piracy in the South China Sea, as the PRC navy begins to discretely attack shipping.

1993

(*) NASA'a High Resolution Microwave Survey is terminated due to budget cuts.
(*) Various Hantavirus outbreaks.
[I] American Hero by Larry Beinhart is published, revealing the truth of the Gulf War.

1994

(*) Outbreak of a strange "Flesh eating" virus.
(*) Attempted assassination of President Clinton by sharpshooter outside of the White House.
[M] The media finally starts advertizing Alan Wetherall's statements the the Loch Ness "surgeon's photo" is a face.

1995

19 Apr
[I] The Murrah Building in Oklahoma City is destroyed by a bomb.
Late Aug
[U] Fox-TV airs "Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?"

1996

1997

[M] NOVA's expedition to Loch Ness picks up the sonar signature of something about 15' long and moving under water.
13 Mar
[U] A V shaped UFO is seen over Arizona.
11 Sep
[U] An anonymous caller to the Art Bell Radio show is made by a former Area 51 employee who reveals that the Aliens are extra-dimensional beings intending on slaughtering and conquering humanity. The broadcast is abruptly cut off, and replaced by an old, taped show.

1998

(*) International space station is begun to be assembled in orbit
(*) President Clinton distract people from looking for Whitewater stuff by having an affair with Monica Lewinski and having her kiss and tell.
Dec
(*) Mobile and Exxon re-unite.

1999

12 Jan
(*) NOVA airs its broadcast "Beast of Loch Ness".

2000
2001

11 Sep
4 airline crashes change the world.

Timeline of A Mysterious Universe(an exercise in persistence, and change)

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Timeline of A Mysterious Universe
(an exercise in persistence, and change)