Everyone's afraid of something. But Mind Field asked the question: What is the single terrifying thing that EVERYONE is scared of? The answer lives somewhere between being buried alive, the idea that reality might not be real, and a part of your brain that's been quietly terrified since before you were born. This one starts casual and ends with you staring at the ceiling at 3am. Watch now.

For 80 years, the U.S. military quietly collected reports of things in the sky it couldn't explain — from NASA astronauts, police officers and commercial airline pilots. Last week, the Pentagon put 162 of those files online. Unedited. Unredacted. Unexplained. Including a Gemini 7 astronaut calling down to Houston mid-orbit: "We have a bogey at 10 o'clock high." TIME has got the full story.

It's not gold. It's not silver. It's a material so critical to military tech, AI and energy production that the U.S. government has quietly classified it as essential to national security. There is currently only one mine in America that produces it — and it's controlled by a single tiny company. A little-known government project could be about to change everything for their shareholders. Learn more.

Some of the most successful intelligence operations in history weren't hidden at all. Mossad ran a fake beach resort in Sudan to smuggle refugees. The CIA built an entire fake mining ship to steal a Soviet submarine off the ocean floor. MI6 operated out of a passport office. These are real covert ops that worked because nobody looked twice. See the full list.

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