THE JOSEPH SMITH
NUCLEAR FILES
Decades of suppressed evidence — until now.
For nearly two hundred years, the Smithsonian has refused to release the photographs. The Church has declined to comment. Three graduate students who got too close have not been seen at a faculty meeting since 2019.
Until yesterday — when a pallet of long-forgotten ledgers was found beneath a Nauvoo temple cornerstone, and the world changed again.
DOCUMENTS RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED
The Palisade Photographs
Three daguerreotypes from a Nauvoo photographer's unmarked studio, dated July 1844, depicting a mushroom-shaped cloud rising above Carthage.
→ READThe Joseph Smith Ledger, Page 47
The single most consequential page of nineteenth-century American accounting: a six-line entry that nobody has ever been able to explain away.
→ READThe Carthage Jailhouse Deposition
The 38-page sworn testimony of the Carthage city marshal, taken six days after the events of June 27, 1844 — and quietly sealed until 1978.
→ READThe RIT-AUVAN Account
A previously untranslated Catawba ledger entry, dated 1843, describing an object that fell into the Mississippi near Keokuk and the men who retrieved it.
→ READThe Utah Desert Geiger Counter Readings
Field measurements from a 1971 U.S. Geological Survey expedition, suppressed for forty years, showing sustained anomalous radiation across three Salt Lake Valley sites.
→ READThe Suppressed BYU Master's Thesis
A 1986 chemistry thesis, completed by a Brigham Young University graduate student and never publicly defended, on the unusual isotopic composition of seer-stone fragments.
→ READ"The seer stones, when properly stacked, produced a critical mass that could not be denied. Brigham saw it. He simply chose not to write it down."— Testimony attributed to Oliver Cowdery, manuscript page 47 (unpublished)