Three-Fingered Mummies with Phones, New Pentagon UFO Book, Shroud of Turin Dated, Another Zodiac Killer Suspect and More Mysterious News Briefly

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.

An enormous (over 27,306 times the size of Earth) rogue object traveling at one million miles per hour was discovered by astronomers more than 400 light-years from Earth – they believe the object is a brown dwarf star and its hyperspeed may cause it to rip completely away from the Milky Way galaxy, making it the first-ever object known to do this; the astronomers are citizen-scientists with NASA's 'Backyard Worlds: Planet 9' project and the object is now named CWISE J124909.08+362116.0; other astronomers believe the brown dwarf either rip[ped away from its binary 'white dwarf' sibling star or was pulled out of a globular cluster by a black hole. Astronomy itself is moving at hyper-speed to become the glamorous career field of the 21st century.

Residents of Palmdale and Lancaster areas of California near Los Angeles were at the epicenter of a rash of recent UFO sightings, with eyewitness reports of bright lights starting, stopping, zigzagging and traveling at unbelievable speeds were backed up with Ring camera videos that confirmed the sightings but did little to help identify what witnesses were describing as shooting stars, hovercraft, flying saucers and more; no information on the UFOs was given by local officials or law enforcement, but the cities are near Edwards Air Force Base and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility where next-next-generation military aircraft are tested. We’re in big trouble if aliens figure out how to knock out the Ring cameras.  

Those recent California UFOs also caught the eye of Ted Roe, the co-founder (with NASA psychologist Dr Richard Haines) of the nonprofit National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), who feels certain “the Palmdale footage is an intentional hoax using footage from a drone show in Hawaii and an audio track used in several other vids”; meanwhile, another analysis by Electrical engineer John Tedesco, who runs a lab affiliated with Harvard's Galileo Project, used a still frame from the video to determine, even with its poor quality, that “There seem to be multiples of the object in a rectangular pattern, possibly nine drones”; finally, Preston Ward, who works for the Texas-based drone light show company Sky Elements; said “To me it looks like the 6 drone test pattern distributed when someone first purchases drone show software.” If only we could get such detailed analyses from one of the government’s real UFO videos.

A new study published in ResearchGate, titled “ Extraterrestrial Life: Plasmas, UAP, Shape Shifters, Replicons, Thunderstorms, Unidentified Ocean Phenomenon, ” looks at data collected by NASA space shuttle missions and other sources on plasma-like entities observed in the thermosphere and presents the case that these pulsating, self-illuminating entities or “plasmoids” exhibit behaviors similar to those of living organisms, and interact with each other in ways that suggest a form of communication – while it is unknown if they are sentient and potentially living organisms or even forms of pre-life, they could be responsible for many UFO sightings by military ships and planes that mistake them for alien ships in formation or doing battle. Don’t get rid of your recordings of Wendy and the Plasmatics just yet.  

The case of the three-fingered mummies of Peru gets more complicated with the release of a new video showing three more beings, with two of them an estimated five feet tall, which is taller than those discovered before, and the third just a large, elongated skull which the media refers to as “alien”; meanwhile, UFO and alien researcher Jaime Maussan, who has been involved in the display and research of the mummies since their discoveries, claims that scientists x-rayed some of the mummies and saw rare metals and alloys implanted into their chests which he believes could be intergalactic communication devices; in addition, one of the compounds is the rare metal osmium, which is potentially lethal to humans; to those calling this (and all of the mummies) a hoax, Maussan responds, “So it’s difficult to understand why they did it. If you are going to create a hoax like this, are you going to put a very rare metal inside?” Here’s another question: if these communication devices are inside them, how did they tap in the number to call?

Following up on the recent revelation that then Prince Charles piloted an experimental UFO-inspired craft powered by an electromagnetic force in 1975, Mark Christopher Lee, the director of the documentary that made the revelation, says now King Charles will play an important part in any extraterrestrial encounters because he is a head of state as well as “head of the Church of England and defender of all faiths” so he would have the double duty to “prepare his people for a high paradigm shift and there would political as well as spiritual implications to first contact” so he needs to be prepared; government UFO researcher Nick Pope agreed and wants the King to release all of the voluminous data he has on UFOs and aliens immediately”. Wonder if Prince William feels the same way or is hoping he gets to do it (and rub his little bro’s nose in it).

In the U.S., Luis Elizondo, former head of the Department of Defense AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) program, is promoting his new book, “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs”, in which he reveals a “Legacy Program” is “in possession of advanced technology made off-world by nonhuman intelligence”; while the Pentagon redacted the book before its publication, Elizondo was still able to talk about little-known sightings such as a 2013 encounter at the Los Alamos missile test range, mysterious holes cut into armored tanks in the Kuwaiti desert in 2003, a giant craft seen beneath the waters of Puerto Rico in 1999, and foreign biological implants found in service members after they encountered UFOs.; he also talks about a “UFO trap” he developed which had nuclear aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and other nuclear-powered boats in a close area because aliens were believed to be attracted to nuclear devices and then have plenty of cameras to record them – unfortunately, he never got the proper authorizations to conduct the test. Does this mean the U.S. military isn’t serious about finding UFOs – or do they already know what they are and don’t want the rest of us to find out?

Luis Elizondo also claims in “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs” that his Washington D.C. home has been invaded by green, glowing alien orbs on and off for seven years; he and his family and friends have witnessed them passing through walls so many times that they referred to them as “our friends from out of town". Since they were never harmed, perhaps it’s time for those in the know to start discussing the possibility that aliens are not necessarily a threat to humanity and condition us to be prepared to accept and welcome them rather than arming ourselves for battle – no matter how much we want to be like Captain Kirk or Will Smith in “Independence Day”.

The blind psychic Baba Vanga has been dead for decades and many of her predictions seem to have been accurate, but some people are getting tired of those interpreting her writings and releasing some of the same predictions year after year, seemingly as a way to avoid saying she was wrong; some have taken to Twitter/X and called the dead psychic an "attention seeker" and that even though she’s been generally right in her predictions of economic disasters and climate change, she has a lot of time to be wrong between now and her prediction of human life ending in 5079. It seems ironic that people posting on social media are calling a dead psychic an “attention seeker”.

In a new twist on the unsolved mystery of California’s Zodiac Killer, former police officer Jeremy Foy says he believes his late grandfather, Richard Hoffman, was the man responsible for the San Francisco Bay area killings in the late 1960s because of stories Hoffman, himself a police officer, told Jeremy as well as physical similarities Hoffman had with descriptions made by survivors and witnesses; Foy says his grandfather told him about a victim's bra 'fluttering' as she received CPR, Hoffman Hoffman said he was first to arrive at the crime scene where Darlene Ferrin was found murdered as a plainclothes officer in an unmarked car and claimed to have sent other officers away from the scene; Foy claims his grandfather knew Ferrin and attended one of her parties; he also said his grandfather was “known to be abusive, controlling, manipulating, and also unfaithful to my grandmother”; Foy’s TikTok videos have more evidence but it may not be enough to get the FBI to look at it.  Has anyone checked Baba Vanga’s notes?

If the reason you’re hesitant about space travel is that your starship may not stock your favorite beverage, you’re in luck because a research team from the University of Florida is conducting tests on fermenting yeast in space using clinostats which simulate microgravity by rotating plants or biological specimens around a single horizontal axis and have figured out how to maximize the available nutrients they create to be used in making beer, bread, yogurt, biofuels and pharmaceuticals on spaceships. Beer and pretzels in space – now all they need is a hologram of Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan.

The controversial Shroud of Turin, which some researchers believe is the burial cloth of Jesus while others claim it is a fraud made 600 years ago, has undergone another analysis by scientists from Italy's Institute of Crystallography using Wide-Angle X-ray scattering, a technique that focuses on how the cellulose within the flax fibers naturally ages, and determined that the linen does date back 2,000 years, putting it in the right timeframe to potentially be the real shroud; as a result, a media organization used AI imaging software to create a simulation of the face in the shroud and it generated an image of a man with long flowing hair and a beard with cuts on his face and body – that image is the more classical look which many believe depicts a white European man rather than one living in the Middle East. Let’s hope these researchers can agree to disagree and not start another holy war.

Another “I’m a real time traveler” calling himself @thetimetraveller2582 popped up on the social media platform TikTok to tout their revelations of future events, like the NOAA discovering a mermaid-filled Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean on November 12, 2024, NASA discovering a planet with life on September 24th 2024, and Project HARP taking over the world via weather control on December 4th 2024. At least we won’t have to wait long to ask, “I wonder what happened to that bogus time traveler, @thetimetraveller2582?”

Terraforming Mars to make the Red Planet green so humans can live there is an old idea, but a study published in Science Advances: Planetary Science proposes a novel way to accomplish it using glitter - nanoparticles of aluminum and/or iron – blown up into the atmosphere to warm the planet by capturing and scattering more solar radiation; the researchers estimate that it would take only ten years to globally warm Mars by ≳30 kelvin and start to melt its ice, a far shorter time than previously thought. The astronauts would then have ten years to come up with ways to explain to their spouses why they came home with glitter on their spacesuits.

Farmers have long contended that cows, sheep and other livestock can predict earthquakes, but a recent experiment conducted in Italy  included dogs in the sample animal population and noticed they showed unusual behavior up to 20 hours before earthquakes hit – the special real-time monitoring used picked up on any abnormal behavior which persisted for at least 45 minutes and reported it at 3-minute intervals until the earthquake hit, but the scientists were still unable to determine what caused the dogs and other animals to sense the impending quakes; they suspect it could be they detect air ionization caused by rock pressure or they sense gases released from quartz crystals. Dogs have more incentive to notify humans of earthquakes – otherwise, there will be no one around to say, “Who’s a good boy?”

A bus driver traveling after closing time inside the Municipal Pantheon (cemetery) of Santiago Miahuatlán in Puebla, Mexico, saw something unusual moving among the graves, so he took out his cell phone and recorded what looked to him and others like the ghost of a child or small person who has for decades been seen there by many people; one suspect is known as Andrea or Andy, who has reportedly talked to people and asked them for favors; skeptics say it’s the daughter of a night watchman, but he swears he has no daughters; others say it was a publicity stunt by cemetery management. It’s interesting that a country so steeped in the tradition of the Day of the Dead is still mystified and frightened by vague sightings such as these.

Harald Malmgren, who was a senior advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, claimed in a social media post that he was briefed in the 1960s on “otherworld technologies” by senior CIA officer Richard Bissell (who had been in charge of Skunkworks, Area 51 and  Los Alamos) but was “sworn to secrecy”; he also claims he was told in 1963 by rocket scientist Lawrence Preston Gise, the grandfather of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, about “his alleged work on reverse-engineering of [UAP] objects”. Not to sound morbid, but we’d have more of these deathbed revelations if people weren’t living so long.

A study by researchers from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo took a look at signals similar to the famous Wow! Signal picked up by The Ohio State University Big Ear radio telescope in 1977 and still thought to be of extraterrestrial origin; the study found narrowband signals (10 kHz) near the hydrogen line similar to the Wow! Signal that could be explained as interstellar clouds of cold hydrogen in the galaxy; from this, they hypothesize that the Wow! Signal was “caused by sudden brightening from stimulated emission of the hydrogen line due to a strong transient radiation source, such as a magnetar flare or a soft gamma repeater (SGR)” and their hypothesis “explains all observed properties of the Wow! Signal, proposes a new source of false positives in technosignature searches, and suggests that the Wow! Signal could be the first recorded event of an astronomical maser flare in the hydrogen line” but not an alien transmission. Wow?

It has long been known that many major league baseball players refuse to stay at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee when playing the Brewers because the hotel is reportedly very haunted, so it’s no surprise that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts stays at an Airbnb because "I don't really like ghosts"; Betts has now challenged his critics to stay at the hotel “to see you, you know what I'm saying, and I want to spend actual time with you and ghosts, to my knowledge, don't really do that". All this will change the first time a player stays at the Pfister Hotel and suddenly breaks out of a slump and helps his team win the World Series over the Brewers.

While many are busy fearing intelligent beings from other planets, some scary intelligent beings are being created on Earth by scientists at the University of Reading who were experimenting with hydrogel and discovered that this simple flexible material can not only learn to play the simple 1970s computer game ‘Pong’, it can get better at it over time, thus opening the possibility to “developing new types of 'smart' materials that can learn and adapt to their environment". Get ready for a new monster movie called “Godzilla Versus King Pong”.