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The Watchlist

Newly surfaced, unclassified, or still moving. Subjects land here first and graduate to a section of their own once there is enough on the record to justify one. Expect loose ends: this is the part of the site where a story is still being assembled rather than told.

This hub follows the record behind the watchlist: where the claims began, how they changed, what evidence was offered, and what the surviving sources actually support.

Featured Investigation

Oumuamua and the 2018 Measurement of a Push Nobody Saw

For eleven weeks in 2017 the world watched a fragment of another star system pass through. In 2018 a team reported it had accelerated on the way out. Nothing visible was pushing it.

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