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About Official X

Official X follows the claims the textbooks leave out: lost planets, ancient visitors, impossible maps, vanished machines and signals nobody has explained. Each one is taken seriously, traced to where it came from, and set beside what the record shows.

Who is behind it

Official X is edited by Steve Wagner, who decides what is published and answers for it.

What Official X covers

Six subjects, each with its own hub:

Why these subjects

These are the subjects where the official account and the popular one sit furthest apart, and where the evidence is real and can be opened: clay tablets, old maps, survey data, recordings. The question is never whether a story is popular. It is what the record actually holds.

How an article is made

  • The claim comes first, at full strength. The people who hold it are named, and the records that support it get the most space.
  • The standard explanation is stated once, plainly, with its specifics. Then the article shows what it accounts for and what it does not.
  • Every fact is checked against a source someone has opened. Each source is rated: a primary record (the map, the tablet, the original paper), a study of it, or a general reference. An article rests on the primary record wherever one exists, and lists every source at the end.
  • Experts are quoted for what they said, nothing more. A letter is a letter, not an endorsement.
  • The real map, tablet or photograph is shown wherever one exists. When none exists, a picture made for the article is labelled as an illustration on the image itself, and its caption says what it imagines.
  • No article ends with a verdict. Each closes with the questions that remain open.

What Official X is not

Not a debunking site, and not a fan page. Coverage is documentary: an article here reports a claim and its record. Inclusion is not endorsement.

Corrections and new records

If an article gets a fact wrong, or misses a record that matters, write to contact@officialx.com. Corrections are checked against the source and the article is fixed.

The shop

The shop sells print-ready files of the records the articles are built on, such as Auguste Mariette's 1871 drawing of the Dendera crypt. The originals are in the public domain and free to see in their archives. The price pays for finding the best surviving copy, preparing it at print size, and the research behind every article.

Contact

contact@officialx.com: questions, records, corrections, and anything about an order from the shop.