Spidery Crop Circle, Psychedelic Insectoid Aliens, Canadian UFO Reports, Unicorn Skull and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

The latest celebrity to come forward with UFO experiences is country music singer, songwriter and son of Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson, who revealed on a recent podcast that in 2006 he and other witnesses asw and orange orb floating less than 200 yards over Maui it what looked like an exercise in observing them; Nelson recalled that “Then I swear it seemed like as soon as enough people saw it, it went whoosh. And then it went whoosh. And it moved like nothing else I thought possible at the time. It went out of the atmosphere. And it was crazy. Faster than any drone”; Nelson said he and another group were on the island of Lanai when they observed a pulsing and multi-colored orb travel across the sky”; unfortunately, the son of the music legend didn’t have photos of either event but said he hoped aliens would visit and oversee Earth “to the point where we hopefully we can survive to a point of having an interstellar civilization”. The first thing they’d probably do is order Nelson to “Take us to your father”.

In a sad coincidental link to Annabelle, the allegedly haunted doll of “The Conjuring” series that was in Pennsylvania as part of the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) museum, founded by paranormal researchers Ed and Lorraine Warren, national tour, paranormal investigator Dan Rivera was found dead in his Gettysburg hotel room; local police and the Adams County Coroner’s office said his death "did not appear suspicious" and "nothing unusual or suspicious was observed at the scene"; the tour will continue and this will undoubted stoke interest among believers in the alleged powers oof the Annabelle doll which the museum normally keeps under lock and key. Condolences to Dan’s family.

Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization reports on the experience of Amber Webster, who was searching for a missing girl in a wooded area of Yavapai Country, Arizona, near Sedona when she reported hearing “heard from a distance 2 hard tree knocks” followed two hours later by a sighting with her husband and cousin of a creature that was “probably about 7 foot tall, at least 400 lbs. and really wide body and shoulders. He was hairy with matted white and brown hair around his flat hairless leathery face. His eyes reflected a golden color. He just stared at us. After a few minutes we got scared and left as fast as we could.”; Webster told BFRO that the missing hiker was found a day later, and she claimed to have seen “something glowing like glowing lights or something. It moved towards her and that's what scared her. She ran from it and that led to her falling down the canyon”; no photos or other evidence were obtained. Bigfoot in Arizona in the summer sounds improbable unless that full-body hair suit is air-conditioned or made like a Yeti cooler.

Canada's new Chief Science Advisor Dr. Mona Nemer has pushed that country ahead of the United States and others when it comes for UFO disclosure by releasing the Sky Canada Project, a report on unidentified aerial phenomena in Canada airspace, much of it collected by the Canadian Space Agency which it refers to as a “trusted” scientific organization; it notes that there are "several gaps and areas for potential improvements" in the process, primarily because there is no centralized body responsible for reviewing incidents and they are rarely investigated "unless they are deemed to pose safety or security risks"; however, the report says that "the project was not meant to prove or disprove the existence of extraterrestrial life or extraterrestrial visitors" but pushes for more “pilots, cabin crews and air traffic controllers to report UAP sightings without fear of stigmatization” in the hopes that the question might someday be answered. Take us to your leader, eh! And bring some poutine!

In a recent podcast, UFO investigator and journalist Ross Coulthart discussed the so-called Tic Tac sighting in 2004 by US Navy pilots near the USS Nimitz off the coast of California and made the shocking statement that “I now know categorically that the Tic Tac is Lockheed Martin”, referring to the global security and aerospace company; Coulthart also said: “I'm increasingly convinced that the United States has made advancements in electro-gravity . . . developments were made, breakthroughs did happen (in the 1960s). “And I think a lot of that has been done in the black, and what I suspect is going on is there are a number of people in the National Security establishment who argue 'noble cause' (when stealing tech)”. As always, he could convince us with some evidence.

While archeologists in Egypt continue to use ground-penetrating radar to pursue the theory that there are tunnels and even an entire city under the pyramids, researchers in Poland have announced the discovery of megalithic pyramid-shaped earthworks tombs built 5,500 years ago by the Funnelbeaker culture in the General Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park that predate the pyramids; the Polish pyramids were discovered by researchers from the Wielkopolska Region Landscape Parks Complex (ZPKWW) and excavated by a team from the Faculty of Archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University; these Polish pyramids are also referred to as "giants' beds" and reach up to 200 meters (656 feet) in length, several meters wide and 4 meters (13 feet) high; it is speculated that they were built to resemble long, trapezoidal houses built by earlier Neolithic cultures and have boulders in front of their openings weighing up to several tons. All they need now is a leader in one of the tombs named King Tutsky.

There are researchers who theorize that alien encounters may be the result of people taking the psychedelic drug DMT having hallucinations so real that they believe they have met extraterrestrials or even been abducted, but Dr Andrew Gallimore, a PhD in biological chemistry who has taken DMT, has taken this theory one step further and says he also these alien intelligences in a hyper-dimensional world and it convinced him that they were not drug hallucinations but real beings that humans can only encounter by taking DMT; Gallimore is also a neuroscientist and believes drugs like DMT cause the brain to construct an alternate world or unseen dimension; for proof, he DMT users in interviewed consistently saw non-human, non-animal creatures like “giggling machine elf type beings” and insectoid beings that often seem to perform 'psychic surgery' on some DMT users; he plans to continue this research because “We don't know the relationship between our universe and this place, whether it's parallel in some way, whether we are kind of a lower dimensional slice of some higher dimensional structure”. If this is true, ET didn’t phone home – he ‘stoned’ home.

If you’re not interested in seeing aliens but are looking for a reason to try psychedlics, researchers are finding that those who ingest psychedelic psylocibin mushrooms may live longer than the average person; in a new study, older mice and human cells (from fetal lungs and adult skin) were given medium doses of psilocybin and it was found that telomeres, which shorten as organisms grow older and are viewed as a hallmark of aging, shortened more slowly, while the mice lived longer, showed increased survival skills and had "improvements in overall fur quality";  in a press release, Louise Hecker, a Baylor medical and cardiovascular researcher and the senior author of the paper, said psylocibin research usually focused on how the drug affected the brain and this was the first direct study of its effect on aging, concluding that “Psilocybin may represent a disruptive agent that promotes healthy aging”. Clean out your medicine cabinet and make room for shrooms!

In one of the stranger statements on biblical archeology and history, Timothy W. Hogan claimed on a podcast that he is Grand Master of the Order of the Temple of Secret Initiates, a modern Templar order  which believes the remains of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist and some descendants were discovered by members of his order in the Middle Ages in the so-called Talpiot Tomb in East Jerusalem and brought to America in six ossuaries, one bearing the inscription Yeshua bar Yehosef (Jesus, son of Joseph), centuries before Columbus arrived; he further claimed that the order is working to compare bone fragments recently found in Talpiot with historical records in order to look for a "genetic match" that would prove their authenticity; the Talpiot Tomb was discovered in 1980 and contained six ossuaries inscribed with the name "Yeshua bar Yehosef" – scholars are debating the authenticity of the tombs, inscriptions and remains; meanwhile, Hogan claimed the Church has attempted to locate and confiscate the ossuaries allegedly in the possession of his Templar order. Is having an American pope the key to a real study of these alleged remains in America?

The Hangar 18 conspiracy theory – claims that Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio contains a crashed UFO and/or alien bodies, possibly from the Roswell incident – was back in the news with a records release from the Air Force confirming that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base experienced multiple drone incursions on two nights beginning December 13, 2024, which temporarily shut down the base and triggered a large-scale security response; The Black Vault made the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the incident reports, sworn witness statements, law enforcement documentation, and supporting video footage, and notes that the Air Force deployed thermal imaging assets and full perimeter sweeps but the scale, persistence, and unknown origin of the aerial objects over Wright-Patterson remain unresolved; this is the first time the extent of the response to the mysterious drones has been confirmed. Kudos once again to The Black Vault for its persistence in getting these and other UFO-related documents out in the open where the public can be as puzzled as they and the Air Force are.

Harvard professor, theoretical physicist, cosmologist and UFO researcher Avi Loeb now says 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object discovered, which is scheduled to pass by later this year, is, at a length of 12 miles (20km), too big to be a natural comet or a solid asteroid because it is 200 times larger than the 100-meter-long 'Oumuamua interstellar object, and is too fast at 60 kilometers per second (37 miles per second) to be natural; that means, according to Loeb, that “the object targets the inner solar system by some technological design” but we won’t know until it gets close to the Sun and we see how it reacts. Better yet, if it is indeed a technological ship, let’s see how WE react.

Unicorn fans will be excited to learn that tourists from Canada visiting Tintagel, the village in Cornwall, England that is home to Tintagel Castle, found an animal with a single horn in the middle of its head at St Nectan’s Glen; they hoped it could be a unicorn’s skull – perhaps even the one Merlin allegedly rode during the Battle of Badon as the family’s grandmother suggested; they took the skull to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle where an employee informed them it was most likely a "freak animal"; the bartender at the Stonehenge Inn pub in Salisbury offered them unlimited ale in return for it so they took the offer rather than trying to get the ‘unicorn’ skull through customs. Wait a minute – isn’t a unicorn a freak animal?

It is crop circle season in the UK and the latest sighting (as of this writing) is a spider-like circle in a field in Cerne Abbas, North Dorset, home of the Cerne Abbas Giant, the famous hill figure depicting a bald man with a very large erection; while the Giant and the crop circle are not related, the Dorset Rural Crime is concerned about bout and calls it an “act of criminal damage” which they would appreciate any help from the public in solving; Thorlak Gudrod Hallett made a drone recoding of the circle while flying his drone over the Cerne Abbas Giant and told the local media it looked to him like “an alien spider” which appeared to have been there for a while and had “a very cool woven section on the body, I've not seen that before". If we’re about to be invaded by spider aliens, we’re going to need a bigger rolled-up magazine.

Longtime UFO and alien enthusiasts know that ‘Skinny Bob’ refers to a series of leaked video copies of old movies which were allegedly made in Russia between 1942 and 1969 by the KGB and show a skinny gray alien being interviewed and examined as part of diplomatic negotiations between high-ranking Russian officials and beings from the Zeta Reticuli star system on “matters of mutual interest”;  in a recent podcast interview, Edward Abbott, an alleged Army whistleblower, claimed the Skinny Bob films are real and he knows this because he viewed the collection inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in 2008; Abbott claimed the films showed “a being — a pilot — inside the craft. The footage was in color, and he moved, blinked, rotated. He was alive. We saw two craft flying in a staggered formation. Parts of that video are now missing online. What they showed us that day changed everything”. How about some evidence, like an ‘after’ video showing how Skinny Bob is now Obese Robert due to a diet of Earth junk food?

Filmmaker and UFO researcher Mark Christopher Lee says he met recently with a whistleblower who claimed “we’ve got at least three downed craft that have been recovered”; according to Lee, the crashed UFOs are from the Pentyrch UFO incident which occurred in Wales on February 26, 2016, where witnesses reported seeing a huge pyramid of light, a crash in Scotland and another from 1969 when a UFO reportedly to have crashed off the coast of Blackpool; Lee implies that the UK government has reverse-engineered these crashed UFOs to make “more advanced technology that’s been tested out’, but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) says it “has no opinion on the existence of extraterrestrial life” and no longer investigates reports of UFO sightings. Time for another documentary, Lee.

The new Ohio Museum of Horror in Galion (west of Mansfield) features human skulls, true-crime artifacts, 'haunted' objects, Ouija boards, horror movie memorabilia and a unique menu item in its restaurant called 'The Last Meal' where visitors can order the last meals notorious serial killers on death row ate before their executions; the dinners are served on a "prison-style platter" include fried chicken and shrimp, strawberries, and French fries - the last meal of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. It’s surprising a clown like Gacy didn’t order popcorn, cotton candy and circus peanuts.

The Trojan War and its famous Trojan Horse is detailed in Homer’s Iliad but the mythical war has never been proven, which has inspired archeologists to continue to look for evidence; recently, researchers digging at Hisarlık Hill in Turkey’s Çanakkale province found several artifacts from the Late Bronze Age when the Trojan War would probably have occurred, and some 3,500-year-old sling stones discovered in front of a palace structure appear to be evidence of a massive battle around the 13th century BCE; Professor Rustem Aslan of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University led the excavation and noted that the layers where the artifacts were found “contain war tools and disturbed human remains that could indicate conflict”; also, “The fact that so many sling stones were uncovered in such a small area in front of the palace points to an activity related to defense or assault”. Now we need plans for the horse, or at least a note passed among soldiers saying, “Are you sure they will fall for this?”

Just when you thought it was safe to go to Build-a-Bear, the stuffed doll chain has unveiled the Giant Mothman doll – this “extra cuddly and extra huggable” is inspired by the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and is a follow-up to the store’s hot-selling regular-sized Mothman doll. The huge soft cryptid sells for $128, and the website notes that “this paranormal plush has soft black fur with bright red eyes. Experience huge amounts of fun with your own Giant Mothman plush!” If your child is asking for this, stop by Build-an-Exorcist first and don’t bring it out while playing ‘bridge’.

China’s Shennongjia National Park is offering $89 a day for people who will act like its legendary Yeren “wild men” by living in the forest, wearing wild men clothes, making only “woo woo woo” sounds and accepting and eating food from tourists – especially raw meat; sightings of the Yeren date back to the Warring States Period around 340 BCE and the legendary creatures are described as savage, strong, fast cave-dwellers who raid villages for food or women – an activity not recreated at the park. If this catches on, there are plenty of unemployed actors in the U.S. who would love to act like Bigfoot for lousy pay, free food and a chance to be in a Planet of the Apes movie.