Security

Years after his death, sworn testimony alleged that Mitchell WerBell III didn’t die of a heart attack after all; he’d been poisoned. The allegation remains one of the most curious episodes connected to the legacy of the legendary OSS veteran and firearms designer. by Jose Campos Mitchell WerBell III had …

by Jose Campos In the shadow of Japan’s Mount Fuji, Marine explosive ordnance disposal technicians trained with live ordnance, refining the precision stand-off techniques used to safely neutralize dangerous munitions. The rocket motor lay on the range at Camp Fuji, waiting to be destroyed. Marine explosive ordnance disposal technicians regarded …

In this installment of our investigative series, we examine how booby-trapped equipment slipped into wartime aid networks in Ukraine, targeting Russian soldiers. by Susan Katz Keating The Russian soldier placed the FPV goggles on his head, and flipped the switch on his drone console. He expected to see real-time images …

In California’s harsh border country, Marines and Border Patrol agents turn to horses for the kind of mobility no vehicle can match. by Jose Campos The U.S. military and the U.S. Border Patrol are reaching back to one of the oldest methods of moving through unforgiving country: horseback. Near El …

by Boris Egorov At the end of 1980, on the outskirts of Moscow, Soviet policemen beat to death a KGB major, and staged it as a robbery. They had no idea what dire consequences the encounter would have for them and the entire Soviet police force.  On the morning of …

by Dan O’Shea Two pilots in the water, a tight rescue window, and a craft with no one aboard showed how unmanned systems are adding new options for bringing Americans home. On a half-moon lit night, flying above the northernmost point of the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. Army Apache …

The Bureau spent years chasing flying saucers. Then it stopped. One memo explains why the public never trusted that decision.by Jose Campos The Roswell story was high on the public radar when the FBI’s Dallas Field Office fired off an urgent cable to Director J. Edgar Hoover. An object had …

by Martin Kufus Decades after it happened, the incident has wide name recognition. To some, “Roswell” suggests a crashed spaceship and a government conspiracy. To others, it’s a hoax for tourists and the gullible.  Myth or reality, the “Roswell Incident” fell within a bigger picture. The Nuclear Triangle By the …

by Austin Lee In the pre-dawn haze of June 13, 1933, a quiet field near Magenta, Italy erupted into chaos. A bell-shaped craft, 10 meters wide, tore through the night sky. Its metallic hull glowed like molten starlight before slamming into the Earth and leaving a smoldering crater. Locals whispered …

by Martin Kufus The Pentagon is adamant that no flying saucer crashed in July 1947 near Roswell, N.M., and that no aliens nor advanced technology were recovered and secreted away. It’s an odd coincidence, nonetheless, that the world’s most famous UFO-related incident occurred near the world’s only nuclear weapons.   By …