Cipher Mysteries
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April 2026
February 2026
- 1908 medical reference to Hallermann–Streiff syndrome (HSS)…
- Was Nick Redfern’s “Black Widow” actually Millicent Dillon? And what about “Project Chickenpox”?
January 2026
- How did Project NEPA actually start?
- Looking for a researcher near Montgomery, AL…
- Finally, I can read the Voynich Manuscript! [*]
- The Roswell capsule: was it Tex Settle’s Flying Coffin?
- Where are all the Project Mogul documents?
- From Project NEPA to Fallout’s Vault Boy…
- The Beginnings of Space Biology
- 1930s-1940s Balloon technology flow chart
- Meet Walt Singlevich, a Roswell alien…
- Duke Gildenberg on cluster balloons, Colorado, and Kenneth Arnold…
- Roswell balloon meteorology…
- Roswell and the modern secrecy silo state…
December 2025
- A Christmas 2025 message for you all…
- An onion for your thoughts…
- Cipher Mysteries is getting so many visitors from China: but why?
- Fun modern Italian cipher mystery
- Broken Hill Associated Smelters collection at the University of Melbourne’s archives…
- Somerton Man, hair, arsenic, splenomegaly, leukemia, and Fowler’s Solution…
- Port Pirie smelting, and the politics of lead poisoning…
- Situations Vacant in Port Pirie, November 1948
- “Instrument maker with ability and experience”…
- Saying farewell to the Roswell pantomime…
- Roswell: reconstructing the Roswell experiment…
November 2025
- What were the ‘Roswell aliens’ wearing?
- John A. Keel’s “Return of the Fu-Gos”, Don Piccard’s balloon licence, and JN-25…
- What links Roswell to the CIA?
- Roswell Timeline: What Did (and Didn’t) Happen…
- ONR Commander George Hoover on Roswell…
- What exactly did Mack Brazel see that convinced him so strongly that it was ‘aliens’?
- High-altitude balloons, the Roswell ‘alien’ capsule, Carlo Ginzburg, and ethics…
- “Witness to Roswell” on the ‘alien’ capsule…
- “Nuremberg”, Nick Redfern, David DeVorkin, cosmic rays, Project Helios, and ethics…
- Otto Winzen’s version of the Settle/Burgess “Flying Coffin”…
- The US Navy, the Strato Model 7, and 1947…
- Tex Settle, Charles Burgess and the “Flying Coffin”…
- Where exactly is the third Roswell site (the “Dee Proctor Site”)?
October 2025
- Jehan le Bègue, Giovanni Alcherio, Villela-Petit, quaterni, fascicular culture… and Lisa Fagin Davis.
- Voynich Manuscript Q20A/B, Mark Clarke, and Italian vernacular recipes…
- Lisa Fagin Davis’ “The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript”…
September 2025
July 2025
- Towards a secret history of Voynichese gallows…
- Rare (possibly unabbreviated) Voynichese words…
- A cartouche attack on the Voynich Manuscript…?
June 2025
April 2025
March 2025
February 2025
- Auguste Toussaint: Les Petites Affiches, Jean Baptiste Castaing, haches d’abordage…
- Bryce Beasley, alchemical herbals, and Voynich Herbal A…
January 2025
- Commandant vs Capitaine vs Lieutenant de vaisseau…
- The Tamarin Bay Cipher Mystery, revisited…
- Dorabella Cipher update…
- Commandant Hamon and a slave ship Apollon…?
December 2024
November 2024
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
April 2024
February 2024
- Zodiac Nymphs, St Peter’s Seat, St Faustus, and Madonna of Caravaggio…
- Male nymphs and nymph numbering…
- Thoughts on February…
- Attack The Fish! (Pisces, f70v2)
- Might “Labelese” be simpler than we think?
December 2023
- A Victoria-licensed electrical engineer in Prosper Thomson’s Henley Beach house…?
- Prosper Thomson’s 1947 in Trove…
- M3y C7s a1d a H3y N1w Y2r to y1u a1l!
- Charles de la Ronciere’s thoughts on Le Flibustier Mysterieux…
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
- Jean Marie Justin Nageon de l’Estang, revisited…
- Was Bernardin’s “Indus” built in Bombay Dockyard?
- Darrell Huff, Voynich theories, and “How to Lie [to yourself] with Statistics”…
- Indian Ocean ships 1747-1748 and French marine archives…
- In search of a January 1748 French prize ship…
- Daniel Krieg on the (1782) “Indus”…
July 2023
- On inserts and Google search…
- Before Isaac, there was Chad (etc)…
- The Silpho Moor UFO cipher mystery…
- In search of “Isaac”…
- In search of Mauritian shipwrecks 1740-1750…
- Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, and Robert Heinlein at the Philadelphia Navy Yard…
- Isaac, CARET, Starfire Tor, Alienware…
- “NB Gas” decoded (in plain sight)…?
- Charles Dellschau, Columbia, The Special AKA, and Scooby Doo…
- On NB gas, suppe, and NYMZA…
June 2023
- Cipher Mysteries is migrating from Feedburner to Follow.it …
- Two Hunters on Bolinas Ridge…
- Did the 1896-7 Airship Flap have any cipher mysteries?
- When did the 1896 California Airship Flap begin?
- The October 22 1896 Meteor was not an airship
- “The Meteor of October 22 1896”
- “A Wonderful Meteor”
- Professor Swift, John Ahern, and Rodney…
May 2023
- Thoughts on daiin daiin…
- Feynman Ciphers #2 and #3 broken!
- Dr. S. B. Battey’s (1893)”Aerial Machine” patent US502168A…
- R.I.P. Feedburner (just about)…
- Loren E. Gross’s (1974) “The UFO Wave of 1896”
- An 1896-1897 Airship Flap Bibliography…
- Dr Sumter Beauregard Battey’s family tree…
- 1896/1897 Airships and the Pittsburgh Reduction Company…
- Walter McCann’s 1897 airship photographs…
- Sumter Beauregard Battey, continued…
- Metal-Clad Airships, and the 1897 Airship Flap…
- Tex Settle’s US Navy timeline…
April 2023
- Hickey Taylor, a photo timeline…
- Hickey Taylor (and the Somerton Man?)
- The Somerton Man, where next?
- Rafał Miazga and the Rohonc Codex…
March 2023
- “Under the Counter”, the end of a long run…
- Chief Mechanist Jerry Keane and the Somerton Man…
- Voynich f116v & Hail Mary…
February 2023
- ChatGPT and the Voynich Manuscript…
- Starring Hector St Clair…
- Carl Webb, fake Mason?
- Carl Webb, bridge puzzle solver…
January 2023
- Update to Cipher Mysteries’ comment policy.
- Emanuela Orlandi: Life (& Death?) in London…
- Transcript of ABC Australian Story on Somerton Man…
- Gladys May Webb and Leslie William Scott…
December 2022
- Voynich Manuscript: Q20 (in-)homogeneity and BAAFU…
- What happened to Voynich Q8 and Q14?
- Dating the Webbs’ family photo…
- Merry Christmas 2022 to all my Cipher Mysteries readers!
- Quire 20, order from chaos… (Part 3: Microtheories)
- Quire 20, order from chaos… (Part 2: Suggestions)
- Quire 20, order from chaos… (Part 1: Evidence)
- Attack the Block / Quire 20 (Part 3)…
- Attack the Block / Quire 20 (Part 2)…
- Attack the Block / Quire 20 (Part 1)…
- “My Name Is Charles”… Charles Richard Webb?
- A quick note on Lisa Fagin Davis’ Voynich presentation…
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
- Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637)…
- Roswell and Oak Ridge?
- Project Mogul in NARA…
- Kevin Alexander D’Arcy – Bute or Boort?
- Carl Webb – Bromby Street, South Yarra…
- When Project Mogul met Project Helios…
- Project Mogul’s “Alamogordo II” phase…
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