Alien Soccer Fans, WOW! Signal Gets More Wow, Nosey Chupacabra, Wet Bigfoot and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

You know a possible alien communication is famous if it gets a name, and few are more famous than the ‘Wow!’ signal detected on August 15, 1977, and named for the exclamation an astronomer wrote on the computer printout of the signal – the Wow! signal’s origin has never been determined, but a new paper by researchers from the Arecibo Wow! (AWOW) project at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico details a new analysis of the signal using modern technology; the researchers determined that the signal’s intensity (flux density) was four times greater than previous estimates, which suggested that the Wow! Signal came from a source within our galaxy and moved faster than previously thought; this adds support to the theory that the signal was not due to terrestrial radio interference (a popular theory) but had an astrophysical origin – small, cold hydrogen can produce these narrowband signals, which also suggests that later signals similar to Wow! had a common origin; this is not a “Wow!” moment (or even a Eureka!) but Abel Méndez, the lead author of the new study and director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico, says: “We are confident—and surprised—that we are getting closer” and the research will continue. If they prove it’s not a Wow!, should it be changed to a ‘Whoa!’ or a ‘WTF!’?

The three-fingered (tridactyl) mummies of Nazca, Peru, are back in the news once again as noted alien researcher Dr. Garry Nolan of Stanford University revealed on a recent podcast that he has been researching the fingers of the tridactyl mummies and found that “the fingerprints show characteristics that do not match those of humans or primates” and the complexity of these unusual fingerprints would be nearly impossible to fake; this calls into question claims that the mummies are fakes or dolls; Nolan would like to see a serious public study of the mummies which would cost about $5 million and require  multiple research teams, strict controls, and preparation for peer-reviewed publication’; Nolan would like to see genetic analysis of the mummies, noting that the three-fingered mutation, the strange heads and other body anomalies would require multiple genetic modifications across the genome and “evolution doesn’t work quite like that” – thus implying that they could indeed be of alien origin. Good luck with that – circus sideshows and cable alien programs get all the money these days.

The 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident gets analyzed once again in a new film, “Capel Green,” and the producer and director, Dion Johnson, and two witnesses, Larry Warren and Steve Longero, former U.S. Air Force Security Police officers stationed at Bentwaters Air Base in December 1980, gave their thoughts on a recent podcast – thoughts which Warren and Longero were not able to share before because they were told to “keep their mouths shut” by government officials; their biggest revelation was their claim that a second UFO - a large triangular craft - landed at Capel Green, a nearby location, and beings disembarked from it ; Warren said it was “a triangular object, about six meters across, rising to a rounded top” which he observed from only 4.5 meters (14.7 feet) away, a suitable distance to see  that beings came out of the object” and the three humanoid figures resembled so-called “alien Greys”; both men said this second Rendlesham incident was documented by “still, film, and video cameras” but all of the equipment and film was immediately confiscated by military officers. Who are you going to believe – the government, witnesses, a new movie, or your lyin’ eyes?

A rancher in Tintina in northern Argentina, thinks his cattle are being attacked by a Chupacabra after one of his employees saw a creature "bigger than a dog" and "with a completely different head" and ran away; when the worker returned, he found a dead calf covered in slime; even worse, the calf’s head was  “completely clean inside” as the creature could “suck the entire head out through the nostril" because the nose was eaten off; this and other dead cattle were said to have been ignored by crows and other scavengers and had no odor of decay; the rancher doesn’t believe it was dogs because his neighbor’s canines had been locked up; while there is no proof, the local media is stoking fears of Chupacabras with images and bold headlines. If it enters through the nostril, shouldn’t this creature be called a “Chupador de nariz” (nose sucker)?

If there’s something strange in your house, a viral video recommends that before you call the Ghostbusters you can check for spirits yourself with a simple glass of salt water – according to the video, a half-glass of water with a pinch of salt should be left undisturbed in a quiet corner of the house for seven days; after a week, if the glass shows bubbles, surface patterns or cloudy spots, the water absorbed the energy vibrations of a spirit (or spirits) and they crystalized the salt, thus detecting their presence; while some people swear by this folkloric homemade ghost detector, scientists say simple capillary action draws the salt water up the side of the glass where it dries out, leaving salt crystals which further stimulate the capillary action, causing more crystals to form. If the salt leaves a shadow, does that mean six more weeks of haunting?

A famous UFO sighting occurred on October 27, 1954, when 10,000 fans at a football (soccer) match between the Fiorentina club and its local rival Pistoiese looked up and saw egg-shaped and cigar-shaped UFOs flying over the stadium – an event that fueled rumors of an alien invasion but was eventually explained as a case of mistaken identity with migrating masses of spiders caught up by the wind being the culrpits; however, that linked UFOs to soccer to this day as shown by a new poll of fans of teams in England’s Premier League which found that Sunderland fans were most likely to have seen a UFO or alien, with eight per cent of them reporting an encounter; they were followed by Newcastle United (7%), Everton (6%), Aston Villa (6%), Burnley (5%) and West Ham United (4%); surprisingly, fans of all 20 teams reported UFO sightings, including Chelsea (2%), Wolverhampton Wanderers (2%) and Brighton & Hove Albion at the bottom with 1% of its fans seeing UFOs. If aliens are fans, do they call it football, soccer or humans kicking balls?

The alleged black-and-white alien autopsy film unveiled in 1995 showing 18 minutes of scientists in hazmat suits dissecting the corpse of an alien said to have been recovered from a UFO crash site near Roswell in New Mexico, US, in 1947 has been proven fake by the filmmakers who created it, but that hasn’t stopped others from profiting from it – the latest is director John Dower who released a new documentary on the making of the fake film, and says the research and investigation for the documentary has convinced him that one claim that the fake was a recreation “based on original frames from an existing post-war film”; Dower says, “I've directed some bonkers documentaries in my time but never one in which it is so difficult to work out what is real and what isn’t”. A documentary based on a fake film based on a real but lost movie – even rabbits think this is a deep hole.

The mystery of fast radio bursts – whether they are a natural result of a supernova exploding into a magnetar or a signal deom an alien civilization – got a little less mysterious when researchers from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and McGill University in Canada announced they had finally tracked one (FRB 20250316A or 'RBFLOAT,' which was discovered in March 2025) to the galaxy NGC 4141 just 130 million light-years away from Earth; then they used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to locate a faint infrared light they called NIR-1 on the outskirts of NGC 4141 which might be a star cluster or a faint single object; that object and its FRB could be a red giant star, a magnetar pulling material from the dying red giant, or an echo from the actual FRB, which could lead astronomers to the real source; to put this game-changing discovery in perspective, Amanda Cook, a McGill-based Postdoctoral Researcher who led the study, said in the press release: “The precision of this localization, tens of milliarcseconds, is like spotting a quarter from 100 kilometers away”. No, they don’t have time to help you find that diamond earring you lost.

One of the most impressive features of the James Webb Space Telescope was how it was compactly folded into an origami-like bundle for transport before it was successfully unfolded in space – now, origami experts in Japan have developed a new family of origami shapes that are even more compact and reliable so that they can be used to build the next generation of spaceships; the origami structures are called bloom patterns because they fold up flat and unfold like flower petals; in a new study, engineers at Brigham Young University explain how they developed a mathematical model for how the bloom patterns work, built physical paper models, paper prototypes and even #D printed plastic models that unfolded reliably; besides in space, these shapes can be used for Earth-bound structures like temporary shelters, pop-up buildings and even robot parts. Once again, Mother Nature gives us better answers than AI … but for how long?

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization received a report from a motorist in Tuttle, Oklahoma, who says he was driving on Hwy 4 bridge over the Canadian River on August 4, 2025, when he looked down and “saw a very large black figure walking across the river”; while he couldn’t make out details, he said “the size was massive and it was walking on two legs” in water that was up to its knees; he told the BFRO investigator it was  "wider than 50 gallon drum" with dark or black fur; the creature left a wake as it walked and the witness said the fur may have been wet as if it had been submerged in the river; BFRO deemed him to be a credible witness and called this a Class A Bigfoot sighting. If Sasquatch can swim underwater, hunters are going to need a bigger towel.

UFOs aren’t the only mystery being covered up by the authorities as a woman in England found out when she was driving on the M5 between J12 and 11A in Gloucestershire when she swears she saw a dead puma on the median; Jodie Jenkins said she had just seen a program about alien big cats and was sure this was one because “the length of the body from rear end to shoulder was long and looked muscular” and it was “sandy and tan color”; her passenger also saw the dead cat, as did another person traveling on the M5 at the same time who saw Jenkins’ report on social media and commented that they runed around and witnessed two police officers carrying the ABC away in a white sheet; Wildlife enthusiast and big cat researcher Frank Tunbridge received an email from Jenkins about the cat and noted that "Gloucestershire has always been a hot spot for British big cat sightings, and where this deceased one was located is in an area often frequented by big cats”; he also noted that “the majority of these fatal collisions I believe have soon been removed by the police, or other authority” and not publicized, which he believes is wrong because they’re real and should be accepted as part of the local fauna. As always, the cover-up is worse than the actual reality.

Leann Hunting, the Director of Animal Industry at Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF), called for an investigation into the mysterious mutilation of a bull in East Carbon because it was found on Bureau of Land Management land – investigators found “very suspicious circumstances” such as the bull’s reproductive organs being removed ”but there were no tracks around the animal, or tracks leading up to the animal”; Hunting says the investigators were able to “rule out other factors and say that it was mutilation” and the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is offering a reward for information to help them resolve the mystery. We’re not saying it’s aliens … but the cows might be.

Yorktown Memorial Hospital in Yorktown, Texas, was closed as a hospital in 1986 and as a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the 1990s, after which its reported paranormal activities have made it a popular site for ghost hunters, but that may change soon after the City Council of Yorktown ordered it shut down for safety reasons; the ghosts are believed to be the spirits of some of the thousands of former patients who died there; Curious Twins Tours & Events co-owners Fred and Stephen Garza-Guzman say they put their proceeds back into the upkeep of the building and were blindsided by the order – they’re hoping to resolve it by having it designated a historical building. Is it possible that the spirits are influencing the shutdown so they can finally rest in peace?

Researchers from the Environmental Studies Group (GEA) of the University of Magallanes (UMAG) in Chile have trail cameras set up in remote areas for the monitoring of ecosystems, but they were surprised when one placed 54 kilometers north of Punta Arenas at the edge of a meadow far from any roads picked up a series of bright lights seemingly moving downward; the UMAG team ruled out vehicles or wildlife so they sent the images to the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (SEFAA), the UFO Museum of La Serena, and specialists in anomalous aerial phenomena; after performing a technical analysis, UFO researcher Freddy Alexis Silva called it "mind- blowing" as the speed was estimated to be 947 km/h, equivalent to Mach 0.7 and close to the speed of sound; Rodrigo Bravo Garrido of GEA UMAG said unidentified aerial phenomena in Patagonia “have indeed existed” but he feels this one “is a first and something very unprecedented" that needs to be further investigated. It’s about time the U.S. has scientists more involved in the investigations of UAPs.

A new study, “Detecting Extraterrestrial Civilizations that Employ an Earth-level Deep Space Network”, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters and written by scientists from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), proposes that those involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) should assume that ETs with the ability to leave their planet will be tracking those ships and satellites in their own deep space, so we should look for signals similar to NASA’s deep space transmissions to satellites, planetary missions and the Voyager and Pioneer probes; two decades of deep space network (DSN) revealed that, if aliens were in a position to observe an Earth-Mars alignment, there’s a 77% chance they’d be in the path of our transmissions; the study recommends searching within 23 light-years for systems with orbital planes edge-on to Earth and look for laser signals rather than radio waves because they spill less around other planets. Good idea – this could identify aliens within our pay grade and less likely to be superior – and hostile - to us.

The potential for humans with animal parts just became closer to reality with the successful transplanting of a pig lung in a human (called ‘'xenotransplantation’) – successful because the lung remained viable for 9 days in the body of a brain-dead man following a brain hemorrhage; the pig lung was genetically modified to help prevent rejection; gene-edited kidneys, hearts and livers from pigs have been successfully transplanted into living humans, but lungs are more difficult because of their delicateness, complexity and exposure to toxins from air breathed by the human; the operation was done in China which has less regulations and ethical concerns than other countries; the study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, points out that transplanting genetically modified lungs into living humans could be decades away. It’s not a chimera or an episode of ‘Seinfeld' – just another example of the importance of scientific research.

While hiking with his brother on Colorado's 14,068-foot Humboldt Peak on August 19, Jeffrey Winzenried photographed what looks like a humanoid alien or creature walking near the summit of Humboldt Peak; the arms look like they are resting on the being’s hips and Winzenried says it appeared to walk forward toward the crest of a false summit before disappearing; his brother didn’t see it and other hikers on the trail made no comments to suggest they observed the being; Winzenried was open-minded on social media but many commenters believed the being was not human; because Winzenried said it was moving, that eliminates a rock or a tree but the distance doesn’t help in identifying the anomaly. If it were an alien, it's good to see them getting some exercise rather than abducting cattle.