Browse Conspiracy Theories

The Pentagon no-plane theory holds that American Airlines Flight 77 did not strike the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and that the building was instead hit by a missile, a smaller aircraft, or an internal explosion. The theory gained traction from the 2002 French book *L'Effroyable Imposture* by Thierry Meyssan and from early online photo collections noting that initial post-impact photographs did not prominently show aircraft debris. Extensive counter-evidence exists: the Flight 77 flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, DNA identification of passengers and crew, over 1,000 eyewitnesses along the aircraft's final approach, recovered aircraft debris (including engine parts), and the ASCE Pentagon Building Performance Report. No credible alternative trajectory or origin for a missile has ever been documented.

On November 15, 2022, two people were killed in the Polish village of Przewodów, near the Ukrainian border, when a missile struck a grain-drying facility. Initial wire-service reports citing US officials suggested a Russian missile had hit NATO territory. Within 48 hours, Polish, NATO, and US investigations concluded the missile was a Ukrainian S-300 surface-to-air missile that had fallen on Polish territory while attempting to intercept incoming Russian missiles. Poland and NATO publicly stated this was not a deliberate attack by Russia or Ukraine. The "Russia attacked NATO" framing and subsequent counter-claims were debunked by official investigation.

On January 26, 2020, a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter crashed near Calabasas, California, killing all nine people aboard, including NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his thirteen-year-old daughter Gianna. Conspiracy theories have alleged insurance or sponsor sabotage, that Kobe was targeted because of non-disclosure agreements, and that weather-forecast data was suppressed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) completed an exhaustive twenty-one-month investigation and issued its final report in February 2021, attributing the crash to pilot Ara Zobayan's spatial disorientation in instrument meteorological conditions, compounded by the helicopter's lack of a Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS). No evidence of sabotage, foul play, or institutional suppression has been produced.

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Claims that centuries of recorded history were fabricated or chronologies are radically shorter than accepted.

Claims that an advanced Tartarian civilization was erased and that mud floods buried old-world architecture.

Claims that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a lookalike.

The claim that the Knights Templar — officially dissolved in 1312 by Pope Clement V after the arrests of October 13, 1307 — secretly survived through successor organizations including the Freemasons, the Priory of Sion, and modern Templar orders.

The claim, based on a 1984 packet of allegedly leaked documents, that President Truman in 1947 established a secret committee (Majestic 12 or MJ-12) of 12 scientists and military officers to study recovered UFO craft from Roswell.

Claims that Denver International Airport (opened 1995) houses an underground New World Order bunker, hosts occult murals, and that its dedication capstone contains coded Freemason messages.

Claims that a secret US military base at Camp Hero in Montauk, New York ran experiments on time travel, mind control, teleportation, and contact with extraterrestrials from 1971 to 1983.

The 1997 death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a Paris car crash has spawned decades of conspiracy theories alleging assassination by British intelligence, the Royal Family, or other state actors — most forcefully championed by Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of Dodi Fayed who died in the same crash.

The theory that the white trails left by aircraft in the sky are not ordinary water vapor contrails, but deliberate chemical or biological agents sprayed for purposes ranging from weather control to population management.

The theory that NASA faked the Apollo moon landings between 1969 and 1972, filming them on a secret movie set rather than actually sending astronauts to the lunar surface.

The belief that Earth is not a globe but a flat disc, and that governments and space agencies worldwide are engaged in a massive cover-up to hide this truth from the public.