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Featured investigation · Planet X and Nibiru Planet Nine and the Six Orbits That Point the Same Way In January 2016 two Caltech astronomers showed that the most distant small worlds of the solar system lean together, and proposed a hidden planet to... Follow the record →

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  1. The Shape of the WorldA French map of 1531 draws a great southern continent, almost three centuries before anyone saw Antarctica.Follow the record →
  2. Lost TechnologiesCarvings in an Egyptian temple crypt look to some like giant light bulbs. What did the people who carved them say they were?Follow the record →
  3. SignalsIn 1977 a radio telescope in Ohio recorded a 72-second burst beside the hydrogen line. Why has no one caught it again?Follow the record →

Investigation · Planet X and Nibiru

Nancy Lieder, the Zetas and the Planet That Comes From Orion

Since 1995 a body of text called ZetaTalk has described a massive planet on a long orbit, its passage, and the dates attached to it. What the account says, when it said it, and how it grew.

ZetaTalk is the body of work Nancy Lieder of Wisconsin has published since January 1995, relayed, she says, from beings called the Zetas. It describes a planet some 23 times Earth's mass on a 3,657-year orbit, the body now called Nibiru. This investigation follows the account in its own words and dates, sets the astronomers' answer beside it, and sets out what would settle the question.

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Lost Technologies

The Antikythera Wheels and the Thousand-Year Gap

Sponge divers found the wreck in 1900, and the machine came up with its cargo in 1901. Inside the corroded bronze were thirty gearwheels that model the Sun, the Moon, eclipses and the planets.

Ancient Astronauts and the Anunnaki

Sitchin, the Anunnaki, and the Twelfth Planet

In 1976 a New York shipping executive read the clay tablets of Sumer and Babylon as a record of visitors from a twelfth planet. The scholars who edit those tablets read them another way.

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