1986 — The Suppressed Thesis
Provo, Utah. A master's student completes the most consequential chemistry thesis of the 20th century. It is accepted under a different title and sealed.
The 1986 BYU master’s thesis on the isotopic composition of seer-stone fragments — see Evidence File 006 — is the most recent event the committee considers part of the original suppression.
The thesis was written, defended (under its revised title), accepted, and sealed within the same academic year. The student’s name was removed from the library catalogue. The original document remains under a Department of Energy classification order that has never been formally rescinded.
The committee considers the 1986 event a turning point: it is the moment when the suppression moved from being an ad-hoc, locally-administered affair (the 1844–1886 period) to a formally institutionalised, federally-blessed program.
We are still inside that program.