Antarctic Flying Saucer, Biblical Bigfoot, Haunted Baby Stroller, Jackie Gleason's Mothership and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

In a recent news interview, attorney and UFO disclosure advocate Daniel Sheehan made bold statements that the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have committed perjury by “Lying, denying the fact that they have recovered a non-human origin extraterrestrial spacecraft and the bodies that they've now DNA-tested and know to be non-human”; he claims they also lied about possessing alien spacecraft, saying: “They've been engaged in a back engineering program, and they've had these craft for some time and they've engaged in back engineering the technology trying to replicate some of these” and that the back engineered crafts “are being flown by US Air Force personnel in a deep secret program”; Sheehan believes more will be revealed once Congress passes the Bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act, which Congressman Eric Burlison has submitted as an amendment to the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). If only there were a government computer we could order to “Open the UAP warehouse doors, HAL.”

Staff members at the Royal Wootton Bassett (RWB) auction house say they couldn’t wait to sell a collection of antiques after a CCTV security picked up a 70-year-old “Vintage Silver Cross traditional Balmoral Navy coach-built pram” seemingly moving on its own for several meters in the early hours when the building was closed and deserted; according to RWB Auctions director Jon White, “The admin staff want it gone sooner rather than later. They're c***ping themselves. It comes from a large house in Highclere, and it's reported to be an area that gets a lot of paranormal activity. We didn't know about that"; while skeptics suspect it was a hoax, many viewers of the video on social media suggested the previous owner ‘possessed’ the pram, while some pointed out that the RMW Auctions building was once a supermarket and is itself suspected of being haunted. All sales are final and no returns are allowed, so caveat ghostor.

Psychics are generally unregulated in the U.S. and other countries and their explosive growth both in person and online in the past few years has made the French government open to regulating practitioners under its Department of Labor; the National Institute of Divinatory Arts estimates that 100,000 fortune tellers in France (three-quarters of the total) "have no knowledge and are only trained to defraud people" in what is believed to be a $3.5 billion industry; Cosmospace, a business employing about 300 fortune tellers who rake in $35 million in annual revenue servicing 50,000 people a year, was fined $290,000 last year for customer database misuse; Youcef Sissaoui, chairman of the National Institute of Divinatory Arts, says Cosmospace has “greatly improved over the past four years and today we have nothing against them” but thinks only 2 to 5 percent of mediums and fortune tellers in France were “honest and really competent”; he warns potential customers that a genuine fortune teller or medium “never asks any questions except the first name and age”. You know we’re in trouble when dentists see a better future in pulling tarot cards.

This year has been slow for official non-webcam Loch Ness monster sightings (2) so Nessie fans were excited to see a two-minute video submitted by a resident who lived near the loch for 30 years; the video shows something beneath the water near Lochend at the northern end of Loch Ness on August 29; the witness reported that they had never seen anything like this before and “it caused an unusual disturbance pattern on the surface of the water”; the disturbance and the alleged monster itself are hard to spot in the still photo released, even with the obligatory red circle. However, longtime Irish armchair resident Eoin O'Faodhagain reported seeing something unusual on a webcam on the same day and at the same time but at a different location on the loch; the webcam is at the Clansman hotel further to the south where Eoin says he "saw a large disturbance in the water on the right hand side of the screen, more than halfway across the loch. Then two humps partially emerged from the water, then submerged, then a large single hump appeared, then the webcam rotated. When it maneuvered back to the sighting area of the loch, two humps reappeared higher out of the water than earlier, and in a different direction, showing that this object is alive and moving, then they submerged and that was the end of the sighting”. Thirty years of living in the area and just one sighting – no wonder so many people would rather stay home and watch for Nessie on TV.

According to a new study, people who have had surgery at some time in their lives and also report being abducted by aliens may actually be suffering from ‘accidental awareness’ – a condition caused by a patient waking up during a surgical procedure because the anesthetic has worn off, allowing them to see bright lights and shadowy figures with medical instrument surrounding them while they lie on a table in a strange room; the experience may not be remembered immediately but can manifest years later on its own or under hypnosis, causing the person to believe it was a memory of an alien abduction and a ‘probing’ examination and possible surgery on a space ship. Or is this what the aliens want you to believe?

Bigfoot is generally seen or depicted as a large adult male, so attendees at the recent Maine Sasquatch Calling Contest in Glenburn, Maine, held at Tocci’s Checkout Convenience Store and judged by the Maine Bigfoot Foundation were shocked when this year’s first prize went to a 7-year-old boy named Gannon, who picked up a $100 prize, a yearlong title and a possible romance with a female Sasquatch; contest judge Kevin Warner of the Maine Bigfoot Foundation says he hopes the calling contest will bring out more people who have had encounters and reduce the stigma associated with them; meanwhile, belief that Bigfoot is Cain, the oldest son of her biblical Adam and Eve who killed his brother and lives today in North America; some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) believe the legend began in 1835 in Utah when Mormon leader David W. Patten said he met a "dark, hairy figure" who told him that he was an outcast who wandered the forests and was subsequently identified as Cain. Now that would give Bigfoot something to howl about.

If you believe the UFOs seen by U.S. military pilots and personnel on aircraft carriers are drones, you’ll be interested in a new autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone developed by a design team led by Professor Liu Zhanhe of Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics that the Chinese media compares to the famous spindle-shaped “GIMBAL” UFO recorded in 2015 by a U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilot flying off the East Coast from the USS Theodore Roosevelt who said it moved without any visible means of propulsion; the Chinese craft “combines the best of both worlds, from multirotor aircraft to fixed-wing aircraft” according to Liu’s peer-reviewed paper published in the Chinese journal Experimental Technology and Management; this flying spindle has four rotors mounted at the junctions between the elliptical wings and vertical stabilizers which act as both lift generators and structural reinforcements; the rotors provide stable and precise hovering for takeoff and landing, then shift seamlessly to horizontal for high-speed flights. And if you believe the Chinese military would release the real details on their GIMBAL drone, there are some bridge salespersons who would like to talk to you.

Actor, comedian and bandleader Jackie Gleason was well-known for starring on ‘The Honeymooners’ and ‘The Jackie Gleason Show’, but UFO fans still tell the story of his alleged trip with then President Richard Nixon to see a crashed spaceship and dead aliens; Gleason was an early collector of UFO books and documentation and kept them in his flying saucer-like home in Westchester County, New York, which he called “The Mothership” to differentiate it from a smaller saucer-ish guest house – his celebrity guest list included Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe Joe DiMaggio and Nixon; The Mothership is now up for sale for Peekskill, has just hit the market with an asking price of $5.5 million; the Mid Century Modern masterpiece took five years to build in the late 1950s and cost $650,000 at the time; befitting of his reputation, Gleason’s house had three bars and a lot of other amenities with the goal of entertainment and fun for Jackie and his guests. No aliens have been known to stay there … yet.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) received a report from Will Boeving in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, whose game camera photographed what appears to be a large Bigfoot crossing a creek on private property halfway between St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee; the photo was taken on August 20 and Will Boeving received notification on his cell phone that something tripped the camera; by the time he switched over to the live feed, the creature was gone; in an admirable effort to validate the photo, he returned to the scene with his brother and shot photos of him in the same spot where the creature stood, showing that it was “much much taller and at least 2 or 3 times wider than my brother” who is six feet tall; the witness believes the camera was triggered accidentally and fortuitously by leaves because “the creature was approximately 100 feet away from the camera, which is too far to trigger it”; BFRO gives this its highest Class A rating – a clear sighting where misinterpretation or misidentification of other animals can be ruled out with greater confidence. The report notes the game cam costs about $33 these days – sounds like it’s time for a GoFundMe to saturate that area with cameras.

Emma Stone is known for her roles in ‘Zombieland’ and ‘The Amazing Spiderman’ and her latest film, ‘Bugonia’, in which she plays an executive of a major company who is kidnapped by a pair of conspiracy theorists who believe she is an alien intent on destroying the planet, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the actress is interested in extraterrestrials; while promoting ‘Bugonia’, she mentioned that “one of my favorite people who has ever lived is Carl Sagan” and she agreed with his philosophy that believing we are alone in the universe is “narcissistic” so she proclaimed, “yes, I’m coming out and saying it: I believe in aliens”. Stone is known for disliking discussing her personal life, so this is a big revelation for her – unless she is an alien in disguise.

Proving once again that the paranormal is becoming normal, the new professional indoor football team located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will call themselves the New Mexico Chupacabras; co-owner Mike Fietz says he agrees with the Chupacabra name because it celebrates "the folklore of New Mexico"; New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment and the team produced an excellent video for anyone who isn’t yet enchanted with the Chupacabra name; the cryptid is also the mascot of the Mckinney Chupacabras FC soccer team in Mckinney, Texas, and the logos are similar. Teams named Rams or Goats may want to think twice before putting these goat-suckers on their schedules.

The city of Banda del Río Salí in Tucumánprovince in Argentina has a Municipal Monitoring Center staffed with security personnel watching cameras situated around the city and those officers were watching a man walking at around 4:30 am on August 22 when he suddenly disappeared; the authorities say the video was not altered in any way but did not reveal why the man was being monitored; the video was uploaded on social media, where most people wrote it off as a camera glitch or anomaly, bad lighting or a hoax, but a few thought it could be a ghost fading away as it walked; the local media contributed to the confusion by calling it the "ghost man" of Tucumán; Why is no one concerned by the amount of surveillance in Banda del Río Salí?

A study by researchers at the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and published in the journal Science Advances the most habitable space object in our Solar System is the tiny dwarf planet Ceres; using data from NASA’s Dawn mission which ended in 2018, it found that 2.5 to 4 billion years ago, Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy and the right types of molecules needed to fuel microorganisms and single-celled lifeforms; models showed that Ceres’ subsurface ocean may have been fed hot water and dissolved gases from the decay of radioactive elements deep in the dwarf planet’s rocky core when it was young; that hydrothermal mix could have sparked life back then, but the decay has dissipated and Ceres is no longer warm enough to sustain it, let alone create more; that’s too bad because Ceres is closer to Earth than Pluto because it is in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. What does Emma Stone think? (See above.)

This week’s Avi Loeb tracker finds the Harvard astrophysics professor espousing again on 3I/ATLAS, the mysterious interstellar object traveling through our solar system from parts unknown and showing signs to Loeb and others that it ‘might’ be an alien spaceship; Loeb says the glow being detected coming off of 3I/ATLAS reminds him of a “vehicle turning on its headlights” and suggests that it’s not a comet but it “could be a spacecraft powered by nuclear energy”; Loeb wants NASA’s Juno space probe currently orbiting Jupiter to be redirected to make a close encounter with 3I/ATLAS in March 2026 but is now warning that 3I/ATLAS could have been sent by aliens to test our intelligence. On the other hand, all of these speculations could have been sent by Loeb to test our patience.

From the ‘Things in astronomy that sound kinky’ file comes news from scientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center who used the James Webb Space Telescope to find what appears to be the first solid evidence of a primordial black hole that formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang that they described as a ‘nearly naked’ black hole because it has almost no galaxy surrounding it, which implies that it was created as a black hole, not by the result of a star collapsing. Add ‘nearly naked black hole’ to galactic bulge, trojan asteroid, waxing crescent and your other favorite kinky astronomy terms.

We now have billionaires sending subs (not always successfully) to the Titanic but back in 1985, Robert Ballard was the chief scientist on the Franco-American expedition that first discovered the wreck of the doomed cruise ship using a submersible robot vessel; on the 40th anniversary of the discovery, Ballard admitted that the US Navy was deeply involved in the development of Ballard’s deep-sea imaging system nicknamed the Argo and the expedition was actually a secret military mission to find sunken nuclear submarines like the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion which sank in the Atlantic in the 1960s – this was the height of the Cold War and the Navy didn’t want the Soviet Union to find the Titanic first, let alone any secret naval wrecks. This sounds like the perfect plot for another Titanic movie without Leo.

While Antarctica seems like the perfect place to hide a damaged flying saucer until your recue team arrives from the home planet, many of the satellite images of the continent’s surface showing what appear to be such saucers are questionable and have little chance of being visited and verified, as evidence by the latest one – a Google Maps image shows what look like a saucer tucked under a cliff about 90 miles inland from Antarctica's coast at coordinates 66°16'24.5"S 100°59'03.5"E; actually, this anomaly could be inspected in person since it is only six miles from the A. B. Dobrowolski Polar Station, a Polish research base; however, they may already know what it really is since Laura Gerrish, a mapping specialist at the British Antarctic Survey, says: “This area is called the Bunger Hills, which is a largely ice-free region along the Knox Coast in Antarctica - and it has lots of small lakes and ponds” and that’s what she thinks this is; despite that, Nick Pope, the former Ministry of Defence UFO researcher, commentated that it was an “intriguing” and “pretty spooky” object that “makes one wonder”. Does Nick know Avi? (See above.)

Some things should disqualify a psychic from calling himself the ‘Living Nostradamus’ as Brazil’s Athos Salomé likes to refer to himself, and Salomé made just such a ‘psychic’ statement recently when he weighed in on the upcoming though not yet scheduled marriage of Taylor Swift to American football star Travis Kelsey with the predictions that “the two will get married in May or June of 2026, after Travis' NFL season is over and Taylor's new album, The Life of a Showgirl, drops in October” and “The world will witness something greater than a romantic union. It will witness the birth of a cultural empire for two” created by an unprecedented “bridge between sport and entertainment”. This prediction should prove there is no bridge between the real Nostradamus and the so-called ’Living’ one.