Elvis on Jupiter, Art Bell Movie, Extraterrestrial Murder Case, Astrologer Crackdown and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

US Congressional Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has been named the head of the new “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets" which will focus on declassifying secret government documents, including those on UFOs and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Luna is a longtime UFO believer and proponent of disclosure and claims that after she participated in some previous UFO briefings she was followed by sinister ‘men-in-black-like’ people; Luna and her boss, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, have already sent letters to the National Security Agency and CIA for records relating to JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations; Luna apparently already has access to UFO and alien files. Let’s hope this Luna landing is a fast success and doesn’t turn us all into Luna-tics.

Captain James T. Kirk crisscrossed space at warp speeds and the man who played him has also been to space (OK, near space), but William Shatner believes that only the first one had a chance to meet aliens because, while he believes that “life flourishes in the universe", he doesn’t think it has reached Earth; speaking at the 52nd Annual Saturn Awards, where he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, he says those UFOs we see are “something” but “it's not a foreign guy saying, 'I'm going to land. I see a guy in the Florida swamps, I'll pick him up instead of the President of the United States'”; it would help if they brought the Star Trek Genesis Device to terraform the planet because he thinks “We are in real trouble” due to climate change. After all that time with Mr. Spock, Kirk is finally learning logic.

The United States government continues to stumble along when it comes to UFO/UAP disclosure, so Japan could take the lead as members of its parliament set up a nonpartisan group to study UAPs; one of its founders is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, putting him on both ends of the group’s recommendation to establish a special government agency to handle UAP affairs and work with the United States; interest in UAPs in Japan is increasing at a high rate and Junya Terazono, a planetary scientist and former public relations official of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), attributes it to "a manifestation of anxiety in society" which began in the 1950s during the Cold War and grew along with the number of sightings reported around the world, culminating with the establishment of a UFO research institute in Fukushima. It’s better to have an institute than to have believers institutionalized.

NASA continues to dance around the subject of astronauts having sex in space and it may finally have a scientific reason for banning or at least restricting it with a study by sex historian Dr. Esme Louise James and AI expert Dr. Matt Agnew which simulated the physical act of a male orgasm under weightless conditions and found that the forward ‘burst’ would propel a male astronaut backward at a speed of around two meters/hour based on “the mass multiplied by the velocity of the ejaculate will equal the mass multiplied by the velocity of the man”; two meters per hour is “about the speed of an average garden snail” but that is still enough force for the concerned warning that “Sex in space is physically possible, but would not be as easy as it is here on Earth”. No astronaut wants to have to explain to his commander how a man-sized dent suddenly appeared on the wall of the space station.

The so-called Calvine UFO photographs, taken in 1990 by two chefs in Calvine, Scotland, and regarded by many as the best photos ever of a non-human-made spacecraft, are back in the news this week with a statement from Nick Pope, the former Ministry of Defense UFO investigator on comments by a fellow chef at the same hotel restaurant the men worked at, Richard Grieve, who said that the chefs were visited by mysterious men and shortly thereafter they “vanished off the face of the Earth” in a way that Grieve and many others believe was evidence they were assassinated to cover up the incident; Pope says  “The idea that that these people were assassinated by the deep state – that’s just nonsense” because “Many times, people who see UFOs don’t want to go public. Sometimes, they don’t even tell their family, their friends, their immediate colleagues” and he wants to be respectful of that. If we can’t be told their names, it would still help skeptics if they provided evidence that the men were still alive.

Art Bell fans should be excited to hear that Radio Science Productions, best known for the horror films ‘Ready or Not’, ‘Scream’ and ‘Scream VI’, are shopping around for a studio to film a biopic about the late great paranormal radio host of Coast to Coast AM with actor Paul Giamatti attached to star as Bell; Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves are writing the script and it is being produced by Sophie Cassidy, the head of 2.0 Entertainment, and Jeff Katz, who forged relationships with the city government of Pahrump, NV, Bell’s hometown, Bell’s business partner Karen Jackson, and Bell’s family to obtain details on his life story. If everyone who claimed to have listened to the show actually sees the movie, it will outgross ‘Avatar’, ‘Titanic’ and ‘Wicked’ combined.

Dr. Steven Greer, UFO researcher and founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and the Disclosure Project, said in a recent Disclosure Project lecture that he is certain that President Trump will open the government UFO files because he’s been “working with a number of people close to him, encouraging a number of executive orders to launch this sort of investigation, provide whistleblower blower protection, and action”; the new whistleblowers are looking for “either negative pushback from covert and corporate interests or positive support from Congress in this and from the Pentagon and the intelligence community. We are at an inflection point in my 35 years doing this, there's going to be some significant disclosures, and we hope halfway for amnesty for the whistleblowers”; he claims these whistleblowers have been involved in retrieving alien technology from crash sites and developing “man-made UFOs” by back-engineering this alien technology; Greer sees the biggest threat to disclosure coming from disinformation agents who distort the real information, hide the back-engineering and present the idea that aliens are “invaders” and a “threat”. Is Elon Musk an aid or a threat to this kind of disclosure? Only time will tell.

Media sources in Ushuaia, a town in Argentina on the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, have been publishing photos allegedly taken by foreign tourists on a penguin tour which appear to show a round, metallic object above the surface of the canal they were traveling; the object was not seen by the tourists but when viewing the photos later they and the media claimed “The images show the mysterious object in different positions: horizontal and slightly tilted to the right. Its tan color and shape similar to a flattened bell sparked speculation about its origin. Although it is difficult to determine its exact dimensions due to the lack of visual references in the photos”; the report also claims that reflections of light can be seen on the UFO and that proves it is not a camera defect or an optical illusion. They left out CGI, a hoax and flying turtles who reverse-engineered the propulsion system of a crashed and sunken UFO.

In an odd paranormal investigation story from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a social media influencer known as Eyka was reported missing in a forest in Bandung, Indonesia, after going with six other people on a so-called paranormal investigation; the reports strangely made note that Eyka was “menstruating at the time"; she was found after a three-day search by her friend and fellow influencer Ammar Nazhan, who captured everything on video, but both the police and social media commenters immediately became suspicious as Eyka’s makeup and clothes were not dirty and disheveled; Nazhan quickly admitted it was a hoax put on by a talent agency representing the participants who were making ‘paranormal content’. This is why we can’t have nice paranormal investigations anymore.

The crash of a plane carrying ten people in the Norton Sound on the west coast of Alaska had many media sites referencing the infamous ‘Alaska Triangle’, an area stretching from Anchorage to Juneau to Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) where it is said over 20,000 people, many on planes, have disappeared at the abnormally high rate of 2,000 per year; the cause of the crash of the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft operated by Bering Air was not determined at the time of this writing, so speculators could speculate on the mysterious Alaskan Triangle, even though the crash site was outside of the area; aliens, Bigfoot, abducting UFOs and other paranormal phenomena were blamed for the missing plane and its crash, but no proof was offered. These are the kind of rumors Bigfoot would spread if they could talk or type on social media.

‘Astrologer’ rarely if ever ranks high on lists of ‘most dangerous professions’, but that may change after Turkish astrologer Hilal Saraç was arrested for her prediction that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would “fall seriously ill” and then he was hospitalized with serious health issues; she also predicted that Erdogan's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) would be toppled by his sudden death or that of Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli;  Saraç did not apologize for these dire forecasts, saying that “medical astrology is a branch of astrology, where health potentials are interpreted based on one’s astrological chart” and she is an expert in this field; unfortunately, that didn’t stop Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered Sarac's arrest while they investigate "insults" to Erdogan and Bahceli; this has become a free speech issue in Turkey, with some social media commenters warning, "If astrology is illegal, maybe they should ban horoscopes next" and “detaining someone for their predictions is a step backwards for democracy". Psychic Baba Vanga worked for many government officials but she was prescient enough not to jeopardize her next paycheck.

In Fortean news, the Sarandí Canal on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in Argentina turned blood red with a foul order overnight and, as a sign of the times, many people saw it as a Biblical ‘river of blood’ plague rather than a more logical toxic pollutant spill from a factory or warehouse along the Canal; while the Buenos Aires Ministry of Environment sent a team of investigators to take samples, it had no immediate statement on the cause; however, local media sources reported that there was a 30 percent increase in toxic spills over the last two years in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, including at least four incidents over the last 15 days. Is there anything in the bible about negligent businesses secretly dumping pollutants and blaming them on sinners?

Elvis Presley may have left the building and the world of the living but he may not have left the solar system, according to the new book, ‘The Occult Elvis’, in which author Miguel Conner reveals new insights into the UFO-believing King of Rock and Roll; while it is well known that Elvis’ father claimed to have seen a UFO over the house when Elvis was born and Elvis himself had visions from aliens showing his future on stage in a sequined white jumpsuit, Conner delves into the King’s claim he was an alien from the ninth boom of Jupiter, that he showed the ability to manipulate the weather by stopping a storm so friends could use his outdoor handball court, and the vast number of post-death sightings that Conner claims puts Elvis “up on the level of sasquatch, Jesus and the Virgin Mary”. Who is more excited to be on that list – Elvis or Bigfoot?

The so-called Argentine ‘Loch Ness Monster’ is back in the news again after a local reported the second sighting in a few weeks of the Nahuelito breaking the surface of the Nahuel Huapi Lake in Patagonia, Argentina; ‘Fernando’ photographed something near a sunken ship and says he was previously a skeptic but he and a neighbor recorded “a black stain of something, what we filmed is not seen as much as before we started filming. From the Nahuelito to a school of fish, it was something, not produced by man or an object”; the mythical Nahuelito goes back to indigenous stories prior to the arrival of the Europeans and there have been many sightings, including a famous one in 1960 by the Argentine Navy which claimed to chase an unidentified underwater object in the lake for 18 days without success; this follows the recent sighting by two visiting kayakers who filmed something big appear to surface and dive quickly. Get those souvenir shops, tour guides and DNA samplers out to Nahuel Huapi Lake before Nessie retakes the news cycle.

The saying “I’m not saying it’s aliens – but it’s aliens” is slowly being replaced by “The aliens made me do it” as yet another murder is blamed on extraterrestrials, this time in Las Vegas where a man told police that “aliens had told him to kill his father and that he felt like he was on a different planet”; Timothy Sahrang La is charged with murder with the use of a deadly weapon and also told police when he was picked up that “he was saving someone a ‘worker’ from being tortured” and “this ‘worker’ was wearing the skin of his father’s face”; as usual, his trial will focus on his mental health state rather than any communications he had with evil extraterrestrials. Do stories like this convince aliens we’re not ready for encounters?

England is the Land of 1,000 (or more) Haunted Buildings and the list grew by one recently when a doorbell camera in Staffordshire picked up what looked like a woman in 1940s clothes walking past another, only to grow larger and seemingly disintegrate before leaving the frame of view; the other woman was a neighbor of the homeowner who swears she didn’t see anyone on the street but doesn’t believe it was a ghost, while the homeowner thinks it might be the ghost of the wife of a miner who lived in the house in the 1940s; social media comments range from spirit to interdimensional being to signal dropout in the camera. It’s about time these doorbell cameras started coming with EMF detectors.

The battle between science and pseudoscience rarely gets tested under close, unbiased observation, so an experiment by the publication Psychology Today deserves some attention as it involved on the pseudoscience side, 152 astrologers who believe they can do better than chance when predicting someone's personality, and on the scientific side was random chance; the test was 12 multiple-choice questions based on a real person’s answers to 43 different questions about their life; the questions were similar to those asked by astrologers to accurately determine a person's astrological chart; the astrologers were then shown five astrological charts and they had to pick the person’s real one; on the chance side, someone guessing at random would on average correctly answer only 2.4 questions out of 12; sadly for the astrologers, they did no better than chance and not one astrologer got more than five out of 12 answers correct; even more interesting, the astrologers rarely agreed on their choices; Psychology Today concluded: “We believe that this study provides significant reason to doubt the claims of astrologers”. If it is any consolation to these astrologers, Punxsutawney Phil feels your pain.