War with Gray Aliens, Black Cube UFOs, Frankenstein Rabbits, Three-Fingered Mummy DNA and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

You may not be a fan of his music or his tattoos, but rapper Machine Gun Kelly (born Colson Baker, goes by MGK) may have picked up some paranormal fans with his revelation in a recent TV interview that he believes he might be part extraterrestrial; MGK claimed he didn’t know his real age or other facts about his early life, but one strange trait pointing to ‘alien’ is his claim that his skin “heals really quick” when cut; he also claimed his mom told him “she felt like she got abducted at one point” although he didn’t reveal her answer to his question: “Was there ever like a tall slender creature?'”; MGK may have asked that because he’s white (under the tats), blonde, slender and 6-foot-4; he also recorded a song called “Concert for Aliens” where he sings, “I'm inside the UFO crash landing, I'm in the room by the door with a space invader”. If aliens are MGK fans, maybe we’ll be in good hands.

UFO researcher Jesse Michels revealed on his podcast that he has been to Peru to inspect the so-called three-fingered alien mummies of Nazca and, while he says he saw no evidence that they are aliens, he thinks “the mummies might represent a previously unknown subterranean species” because a bioinformatics expert who analyzed the publicly available DNA of some of the mummies and identified a gene mutation linked to a congenital condition known as ectrodactyly that causes digit deformations in humans; an example is a tribe in northern Zimbabwe where many are born with “Ostrich Foot Syndrome” in which their feet have just two large toes, forming a V-shaped foot; Michels is working with Colossal Biosciences, the company trying to bring back Tasmanian tigers, wooly mammoths and dodo birds, to do extensive DNA analysis on more samples of the three-fingered mummies, which some researchers say are nothing more than dolls made from human, animal and other parts. If Colossal can bring back the three-fingered beings, the real Jurassic Park just got a whole lot more controversial.

Fans of Star Trek’s collective alien species, the Borg, know their interstellar transport vessel and warship as the ‘Borg Cube’ because of its shape, so there sis some concern over a new release of documents on the unauthorized drone incursions at Dayton’s Wright-Patterson AFB in December 2024; one of the documents obtained by The Black Vault from U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) describes an incident on December 19, 2024, at 16,000 feet approximately 70 to 80 miles east-northeast of Wright-Patterson where the crew reported a drone "passing below them at about 500 feet " and described it as a "black cube"; this “black cube” sighting was not included in previous Air Force statements about the incident; The Black Vault notes that “a rare, pilot-reported sighting of a “black cube” drone at high altitude” during that timeframe expands the public record and offers “new leads in understanding the scale and sophistication of the aerial activity that prompted Wright-Patterson’s partial shutdown”. Seven of nine experts surveyed want to know why they didn’t scan the cube for the Borg queen.

In possibly the worst Loch Ness monster sighting ever, people camping on the shores of Nessie’s home have been seeing mysterious blue cylindrical shape rapidly speeding through the water and occasionally leaping out of it before surfacing near the shore and usually near a group of people; those who approach the ‘monster’ soon realize it is actually the world’s first-ever pizza delivery submarine being used by Domino’s to deliver hot pies to Nessie searchers; the sub can reach 45 miles-per-hour and leaping 15 feet out of the water with its crew of one human driver and many fresh pizzas; Domino’s is calling this "a glimpse into the future possibilities of innovative pizza delivery"; It’s all in good fun until the first driver comes back with a blurry photo of what ate his entire load without paying. 

On the day before National Sea Serpent Day (August 6), a man named Stuart in Vernon, British Columbia, told the Vernon Morning Star he was sitting on his deck looking out onto Lake Okanagan when he saw – and had the presence of mind to photograph – something churning the water before surfacing; he said “It looked really big and long, and then it suddenly disappeared. I took some photos and wish I had recorded a video. I’d never seen anything like it”; on Lake Okanagan, that can only be the Ogopogo, the legendary lake monster said to reach 80 feet in length whose sightings date back to the water demon known as the Naitaka to the indigenous Secwepemc and Syilx peoples; non-native sightings began in 1872 and continue to this day, spurred on by the local tourism industry and a popular artistic sculpture – which many suspect were using it to promote National Sea Serpent Day. Or was it a sub delivering poutine?

Self-proclaimed interdimensional communicator Emily Eaton says the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, which will some close to Earth in November, is actually an alien ship which she has been in contact with via high-ranking members of the Galactic Federation of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations; Eaton claims the crew of 3I/ATLAS assures them they are not a threat to us and we have “nothing to fear”; she describes its arrival as “alien theater” by these ETs to give “the science industry something to detect”; she also claimed the aliens have been in contact with an unnamed group of people above the government and told them they will not land on Earth nor will they abduct any humans. Meanwhile, Harvard physics professor Avi Loeb continued his quest to make scientists and governments consider that the comet could be an alien vessel that will drop probes to inspect Earth by suggesting a six-word radio message to be sent to it as a precaution: “Hello, welcome to our neighborhood. Peace!”. Maybe we should also beam a copy of ‘Independence Day’.

Dead Sea Scrolls researcher Dr. Alexey Yuditsky has found mentions of a pyramid in one of the fragments of the scrolls but not one ion Egypt – using high-resolution imagery, Yuditsky identified a word following the phrase “the ark’s tallness” had previously been illegible and determined that the word is “ne’esefet” which means “gathered” and in this context, that means the ribs of Noah’s famous ark were ‘gathered’  together at the top in the shape of a pyramid; Yuditsky said the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Bible from the third century BCE, used a Greek verb with a similar meaning and medieval authors like Maimonides also suggested that the ark's roof was pointed; one panel of the elaborate door to the Baptistery in Florence also shows Noah’s ark as a pyramid. Does this change everything or just the children’s books and tourist attractions showing Noah’s ark as a big wooden boat?

A popular urban legend west of the Mississippi is the Jackalope - a mythical combination of a jackrabbit sprouting horns like an antelope; while the jackalope is only seen stuffed in souvenir shops, residents and tourists in Colorado and other western states are being warned to avoid creatures the media is calling ‘Frankenstein rabbits’ or ‘Frankenbunnies’ because these unfortunate rabbits appear to have black tentacles growing out of their head and faces; the nickname is almost as scary as the real cause - virus called the Shope papilloma virus (SPV) or cottontail cutaneous papilloma virus; which actually has been known since at least 1933 and, despite dire warnings by the media, cannot be transmitted to humans; the virus is spread by ticks and mosquitoes and is more prevalent in domesticated rabbits; the growths can be surgically removed by a veterinarian before they become malignant; because it has been known throughout the Midwest for so long, some researchers suggest it may have inspired the legend of the Jackalope. Fortunately, souvenir Jackelopes and Jackelope postcards are much cuter than stuffed Frankenbunnies.

US politicians continue to drop hints about UFOs, aliens, strange beings and disclosure of the secret government files describing encounters and crash recoveries, with the latest coming from well-known UFO proponent and co-chair of the congressional Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Caucus (UAP Caucus), Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who revealed on a recent podcast that she has seen classified photos of unidentified objects that she believes were not created by humans; Luna claims she saw the photos inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and she believes the aliens who piloted them were “interdimensional beings” and said, “I believe they can, in fact, operate within temporal dimensions that we do not yet understand”; she supported that statement by further stating that “I can tell you, without getting into confidential conversations, that there have been incidents where very trustworthy people reported movements outside of time and space”; meanwhile, Representative Eric Burlison of  Missouri, who serves on the House Oversight Committee, revealed on another podcast that he believes giants once existed, the Smithsonian Institution has bones proving this, and as a member of the Oversight Committee, he could investigate the Smithsonian and demand their release. As always, what are they waiting for?

“Never go to war with the Grays” is a warning made by Whitley Strieber, author of the horror novel ‘The Wolfen’ and ‘Communion’, his account of his own alleged experiences with various kinds of gray aliens; in a recent interview, Strieber reveals that through a Defense Department contact he met a Nordic or tall white alien with blond hair and green eyes who told him: “Never go to war with the Grays, because they will never let you win and they will never let you stop fighting”; he says he was told by his Pentagon contact that the Nordic came the Pleiades star cluster; Strieber says he wonders how many government officials know about this warning, especially those in rumored ‘black budget’ projects who are allegedly working directly with extraterrestrials. “Never Go to War with the Grays” sounds like a great movie title.

While other Amelia Earhart hunters use their quest as a reason to visit remote Pacific islands, Captain Justin Myers, a 25-year British pilot, believes he has found the exact location of Earhart's plane crash by staying home and carefully perusing Google Earth; he claims his experience as a pilot led him to imagine what he would do in Earhart’s predicament - "Poor sleep, upper wind predictions not being accurate, probably fatigue and some anxiety” – and decided he’d head to Nikumaroro Island, where he found a “dark colored perfectly straight object”  on its east coast; the shadow measured 12 meters (39 feet) in length – the same length as Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E; he then found what he believes is a “perfect half exposed radial engine measuring 4-4.5ft in diameter” and a wheel; now he’s ready for that Pacific island trip but he hasn’t received responses Purdue University (which is planning an expedition in November 2025), the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, and the air crash investigation team in Brisbane. If he can find Earhart’s plane using Google Earth, he should fund the trip himself by hunting for lost treasures and wedding rings.

The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) received a report and videos from a commercial pilot who was flying over Guapé, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on the night of August 5th, 2025, when he reportedly saw “multiple bright orbs far above the aircraft altitude. They displayed irregular movements — lateral shifts, vertical climbs, pulsating light intensity — inconsistent with known satellite or aircraft behavior. No navigation lights or beacon patterns were visible”; he recorded the orbs “in time-lapse using a smartphone camera” and noted that “I am a commercial pilot and can confirm it was not a standard traffic or celestial object. Phenomenon was similar to some officially released UAP videos”; the altitude was 45,000 feet, and the pilot said the speed was “Extremely fast, beyond known aircraft capabilities”. Will all pilots ever feel comfortable reporting UFOs, or will we have to wait until alien pilots make a report?

From the ‘Close Calls of the Third Kind’ file comes the story of the "McDonough meteorite" that crashed through the roof of a home in McDonough, Georgia at on June 26th at 2,237 miles per hour, just narrowly missing the homeowner who was standing 14 feet from where he found the space rock on the floor, along with many smaller fragments (which he says he continues to find); planetary geologists at the University of Georgia have completed studying the meteorite and have determined that the cherry-sized rock is a Low Metal (L) ordinary Chondrite which formed 4.56 billion years ago in the presence of oxygen, making it older than the planet Earth. The old rock still packed a punch – which is something to remember when you argue with your grandfather over politics.

If you ever wondered what makes astronomers sick to their stomachs (besides bird popop on their telescope’s lens), Swedish astronomer says she got a “stomach ache” while studying photographic plates taken at an observatory in California in the early 1950s when she realized some of the 100,000 “transient” objects on the plates were flat, traveled in straight lines, glittered in sunlight and disappeared  in the Earth’s shadow, which meant they could have been non-human spacecraft or satellites in orbit five years before Sputnik 1, the first human-made satellite, was launched; in a preprint paper, she and her team as other scientists and astronomers to look at similar plates from the same period to see if the phenomena is replicated; some of the strange images were taken at the same time as the famous 1952 Washington UFO “flap” when mysterious UFOs allegedly buzzed the US capital over two weekends in front of thousands of witnesses, while others coincided with major atomic bomb tests; the paper also calls for the development of “civilian programs to investigate uncorrelated objects in modern satellite orbits”. Does insurance cover UFO-induced stomach aches?

It was a hot week on Mars for pareidoliacs as NASA’s Curiosity Rover photographed a rock that looks just like a medieval army helmet with a pointed peak and a flared brim, although some with a more discerning eye think it looks like a witch’s hat; this rock has the kinky-sounding name "Horneflya” and David Agle, a spokesperson for the Perseverance team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says the hat shape is “consistent with the pyramid shape we often see in of wind-eroded float blocks on the surface of Mars”; meanwhile, the Curiosity Rover sent back a photo from the Gale crater that looks to the pareidolic eye like coral but is actually a mineral formation caused by ancient Martian water activity, which reinforces the idea that Mars once had enough water to be habitable. They’re still just rocks, but it beats trying to explain smiley faces on the Red Planet.

The Eye of Sauron is a fictional floating eye from the Lord of the Rings series that symbolizes the Dark Lord's all–seeing power, but a real-life Eye of Sauron may be even more powerful as astronomers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the Very Long Baseline Ar-ray (VLBA) have unveiled an image of the blazar PKS 1424+240, the brightest known neutrino-emitting blazar (an active galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole at its center that emits powerful jets of particles with one pointed at Earth) and it looks very much like the “Eye of Sauron” only billions of light years away; it took 15 years of precise observations and analysis to come up with the depiction and it may solve the mystery of the origin of neutrinos – it shows ring-shaped magnetic fields that act like a spring to accelerate particles to high energies. What would the Dark Lord think about his Eye of Sauron being described as "a near-perfect toroidal magnetic field with a jet, pointing straight at us"?

In Argentina, a security camera along the Roca Train tracks on the stretch that goes from the Hudson to Parque Pereyra stations recorded a mysterious figure that many who observed the video on social media believe is a ghost; some locals say there is no pedestrian crossing at that location and the vegetation is "very dense" so they don’t believe it was a human, while others say it was a scarecrow in a cornfield, a person or a mannequin put there as a hoax; whatever it was, media reports said “The networks went wild “ over the "ghost". This is why your grandparents miss the days when newspapers sent reporters and photographers to investigate these things.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) received a report from Macon County, Georgia, from a couple who said they were driving from Saphire Valley to Highlands when the car in front of them stopped suddenly and they saw why – a large black creature with “long arms and dark hair” that appeared suddenly and “jumped over the guard rail with ease”; the other car took off before they could share notes; the BFRO investigator noted that “the part of the USA where North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia all intersect is a sweet spot for sasquatch sightings” and he found the witnesses to be credible, so “the creature they saw could only have been a sasquatch”. “Sweet spot for sasquatch sightings” is your alliteration of the week.