2012

This page lists news articles and events for the year 2012.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Speculation: Considering the Mayan calendar landmark in December (see below), there's some possibility that the latter half of this year will see mass anxiety not unlike Y2K, at least among occult circles.

• Prediction: Meltdown In The Arctic Is Speeding Up - scientists warn the ice could be gone as soon as 2012.

• Prediction: Two Suns? Twin Stars Could Be Visible From Earth By 2012 - Betelgeuse might go supernova, lighting up the skies for weeks

January

• January 2
  • News: Is German Super-Volcano About to Erupt?
• January 5
  • News: Cheap Plastic/Sand Composite Absorbs CO2 Like Crazy
• January 31
  • News: Shipwreck in Baltic Sea? A UFO?

February

• February 15:
  • News: Swiss To Grapple Junk For Removal

March

• March 22:
  • Event/News: Wisconsin mystery - What's going boom in the night?

April

May

• May 2
  • Article: 'Ironman' a Game Changer on the Battlefield
• May 22:
  • News/Event: SpaceX Dragon Takes Flight
  • Article: Avalanche Season on Mars

June

• June 19:
  • News: Venezuela demands the return of Grandmother Kueka
• June 29:
  • News: Earth's oldest impact crater found in Greenland

July

August

• August 7:
  • News: One Clue To Romney's Veep Pick
• August 21:
  • News: Shahira Hammad - Westbahnhof Train Station Proposal

September

• September 4:
  • Event/News: A Hero’s Welcome for a Convicted Killer Reignites Tensions

October

November

• November 3
  • Article: leaving-our-mark-fossils-of-the-future
• November 8:
  • Event/News: UFO sightings in sky over Denver
• November 12:
  • News: Duke University creates perfect, centimeter-scale invisibility cloak
• November 22:
  • Conspiracy Theory/News: The Mysterious Death of George S. Patton
• November 27:
  • News: Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is A 'Giant Brain'
  • News: Arsenal of Concealed Weapons siezed from North Korean Assassin
• November 28:
  • News: Bigfoot DNA Tests Prove Hairy Creature Exists
• November 30:
  • News: North Korea Finds Secret Unicorn Lair

December

• December 12:
  • Event: X-37B Space Plane launched on a top secret mission, ultimately spending nearly two years in orbit.
• December 20:
  • Event: The end of the 12th B'ak'tun of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar. Some predict massive paradigm shifts on this date, or even the end of the world!