Alien Dining, Country Bigfoot, Spielberg's Disclosure, Flying Cars and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

The aquatic conspiracy theory that orcas are attacking yachts off the coasts of Spain, Portugal and Morocco due to some sort of vendetta against humans was written off as just young males having orca fun, but marine biologists watching the North Sea have issued new warnings that orcas in that area are attacking fishing trawlers and cargo ships and appear to be aiming for the stern area with its rudders and propeller shafts; some captains report the whales making repeated hard bumps as if seeking a weak spot and marine biologists say this is a known orca hunting strategy of flanking, distraction, and focused strikes; while play is still a possible cause, the attacks on larger vessels may also be dur to stress from climate change or noise, and they warn that this behavior is learned and passed on to younger whales. It's time shipping and fishing companies sit through a showing of “Free Willie”.

For more proof that the paranormal is becoming normal, look no further than ‘Fortnite Pacific Break’, the latest update to the Fortnite video game platform, where Bigfoot can be found as an NPC (Non-Player Character) roaming the entire terrain while impervious to damage from being shot; like the ‘real’ Sasquatch, it disappears when anyone gets within 35 meters; players note that Fortnite Bigfoot is pretty small – not much bigger than a flowering plant – but it has an emote (a cosmetic in-game action) named Sasquatchin'. Kim Kardashian is a well-known Fortnite player, so maybe she can keep up with Bigfoot.

American country music singer Larry Fleet revealed on a recent podcast that he’s given up alcohol, but he doesn’t blame drinking for his encounter with a UFO that hovered over a cow pasture before zipping away at a high speed; he didn’t see any aliens but he believes in them, but he believes in ghost because he HAS seen a few of them in a 1920s house in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Where he once lived – he thought one was a shadow, but he turned on every light in the house and searched with a gun, but never found anything; he now lives in the Pacific Northwest and also believes in Bigfoot, although he has hasn’t seen one – drunk or sober. It’s time for a country song about alien romance and a flying pickup truck.

If you’d like to have space aliens over for dinner, you might want to spread the word that you’ll be serving their favorite food: high-energy particle clusters known as galactic cosmic rays; according to a new paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, galactic cosmic rays emit radiation that can trigger chemical reactions, break down molecules, and release byproducts which could feed life forms; the researchers, led by Dimitra Atri of the Mars Research Group at New York University, say these galactic cosmic rays exist in our solar system, with Saturn’s moon Enceladus providing the best environment, followed by Mars and Jupiter’s moon Europa; in an interview, Atri says this mean we can now look for life on planets and moons that are cold and dark “as long as they have some water beneath the surface and are exposed to cosmic rays”. Adult aliens eat galactic cosmic rays – their kids prefer galactic cosmic nuggets.

Spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller agrees with Harvard professor Avi Loeb that the intergalactic space object 3I/ATLAS is a spaceship, but Geller goes further into the extraterrestrial rabbit hole by predicting that the aliens onboard 3I/ATLAS “come in peace” because “Humans are on the brink of self-destruction because everyone’s building nuclear bombs” and extraterrestrials are “the only thing that can save us from this man-made disaster”; he says their arrival “will be a good experience for mankind” because they will “give us a gift” but “We may not immediately know how to use whatever power they give us, but we will know in time”; if you’re wondering where these peaceful aliens are from, Geller says, ““The Galactic Federation is very real and I want to believe that whatever is on board the 3I/ATLAS is part of it”; Geller also speculates that these could be the same species whose bodies he claims to have seen in a holding are below NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Let’s hope these aliens are more impressed with spoon-bending than humans are.

The first official teaser for the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie, “Disclosure Day”, has been released and it has fans of another Spielberg film, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”., talking about their different perspectives – while the earlier film asks "do they exist?", the new one wonders "why have we been kept in the dark for so long?"; the film will have some big names like Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple) and Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin), and they will focus less on the encounter and more on the political, psychological, and social consequences of alien disclosure; the teaser shoes car chases with “men in black” vehicles, a car‑train crash escape involving Emily Blunt’s character, and some mysterious deer with huge antlers; “Disclosure Day” is set to release on June 12, 2026 via Universal Pictures.

Russia's infamous 'doomsday’ shortwave radio station UVB-76, also referred to as “The Buzzer” for broadcasting a constant, monotone buzz on 4625 kHz since the Cold War, is known for mysteriously transmitting coded messages, clusters of words, strings of numbers, bursts of Morse code and music over t6he buzz during times of political tension – and it’s happening again as those who keep an ear to station report hearing more than a dozen strange messages recently; it is feared this could be related to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the growing tensions between Europe and President Trump over attempts to settle it; professor David Stupples, who teaches electronic and radio engineering at the City University of London, says it is “almost certainly the Russian government that is using it” and “it wouldn't be for peaceful purposes”; the code words this time included 'PEPPER SHAKER', 'TRANSFER', 'PABODOLL', 'SPINOBAZ', 'FRIGORIA', 'OPALNY', 'SNOPOVY', and 'MYUONOSVOD'. NATO needs to get involved before it starts broadcasting something really scary, like Russian death metal music.

Those waiting patiently for the flying cars that have been promised since at least the dawn of “The Jetsons” received a ray of hope recently from the California company Alef Aeronautics which announced that its Alef Model A Ultralight flying car, an electric vertical take–off and landing (eVTOL) car and plane, electric vertical take–off and landingelectric vertical take–off and landing car and plane, is about to be delivered to a small number of the people who signed up to be beta testers and paid $275,000 (£235,000) for the privilege; testing will continue as the company and these early customers find any bugs in the flying car, which has four small engines in each of the wheels for driving and powerful propellers under the hood and trunk lid for flying at 110 miles per hour; because it is so light, (850 lbs), it is classified as an ultralight 'low speed vehicle' (like a golf cart) and limited to 25 miles per hour on the road even though it can go faster; the car holds a driver and one passenger and is said to take only 15 minutes to master in both modes. Sorry, it still looks like something George Jetson would have given his boy Elroy as a step up from his flying tricycle.

A prehistoric skeleton found in 1994 in South Africa’s Sterkfontein cave system was called “Little Foot” because its small foot bones were the first to be discovered; most researchers thought it was a prehistoric hominin belonging to species Australopithecus Prometheus, but some experts put it in the species Australopithecus africanus because other remains of that species were found in the same cave system; now, a new study led by Dr. Jesse Martin of La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, has determined that “"It doesn't look like Australopithecus prometheus... but it also doesn't look like all of the africanus to come out of Sterkfontein" so it instead is an entirely new and previously undiscovered limb of the human family tree; while the Latin translation of ‘Little Foot’ is ‘Parum Pedites’, Martin’s team is leaving the naming of the new species up to the original team which discovered it. The band Little Feat might appreciate being consulted.

From the ‘If You Look At Something Long Enough’ file comes new information on XID 925, a signal spotted in 1999 during the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Deep Field South survey; astronomers have watched the signal, originating from 3 billion light years away, as its radiation goes from bright to a dim one-fortieth of its initial light and pondered what it was; while they agreed this was most likely a tidal disruption event (TDE) caused by the violent death of a star, probably caused by a collision with a supermassive black hole, they have now determined that TDE was a star “spaghettified” by two supermassive black holes; the larger black hole tore apart the star and turned it into an accretion disk, then the smaller black hole may have plowed through the disk and caused a massive burst of energies that was eventually picked up by Chandra; that would make this the most distant known binary black hole tidal disruption event; not surprisingly, the black holes continued on their merry destructive paths. Never give up – no matter how many times your friends laugh when you say “Spaghettification”.

UFO researchers are converging on the municipality of Barras in the northern part of the northeast Brazilian state of Piauí to investigate reports by residents of strange lights there and in the nearby communities of Cajazeiras and Lameirão which have not only been flying across the night sky but appearing to follow vehicles and pedestrians; the phenomenon starts around 8:30 p.m. and often continues through the night to early morning; some people say the lights are making “intelligent” maneuvers as they stop when they stop and start up when they try to run away; while some people have suggested these are drones, the local media interviewed a farm worker named Francisca and her husband Lourival who claimed a “red star” followed them while climbing the slope at Salto de Pedra; the light flew low, “over the trees and palm trees” and illuminated the area; Francisca ruled out a drone because there was no noise and it was too big to be a drone; like others in the area who have seen the UFOs, Francisca needed medical care due to spikes in blood pressure caused by the shock and her psychological and physical stress lasted for days after the event; UFO investigators Luís Antônio and Fábio Tobler are onsite with recording equipment in hopes of identifying the lights, and hope others join them. Drones are still unusual in remote areas like these, but the number of stressed-out witnesses suggests this could be more like an orb of unknown origins.

After 45 years of silence, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Dan 'Tanna' Isbell came forward on a podcast to tell what he saw on the night of December 26, 1980, while driving back to his accommodation near the RAF Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, where he was stationed; many will recognize that date as the night of the Rendlesham Woods incident which has become known as the “British Roswell” but this Top Gun fighter pilot spent years unaware of that – all he knows is that he saw a series of lights that changed color and moved rapidly toward him while above the trees; he described it as a triangular craft making no sound, with curved edges at the front and lights of various colors; “I realized it wasn’t an aircraft I was familiar with. It had no wings, no visible means of propulsion, and no helicopter propellers”; when he got out of his car to get a better look, the craft seemed to be aware of him and descended to a golf course; fearing reprisals, Isbell has stayed silent ever since – until hearing a description of the Rendlesham incident by researcher Linda Moulton Howe; Isbell has had three other UFO encounters – two in Florida and one at Edwards Air Force Base; all of these experiences have convinced him to finally speak out about UFOs and influence government disclosure. Maybe Steven Spielberg can convince Tom Cruise to do a combo UFO-Top Gun movie.

We don’t have many Bermuda Triangle incidents anymore as boats and planes avoid the area and most researchers attribute past disappearances to errors or weather, but a new study puts the area back in the news for a different reason - scientists have discovered a strange, 12.4-mile-thick (20 km) rock layer below the oceanic crust under Bermuda that is thicker than any other found elsewhere; study lead author William Frazer, a seismologist at Carnegie Science in Washington D.C., says this may indicate that the last known volcanic eruption under Bermuda 31 million years ago may have injected mantle rock into the crust, creating a raft that raises the ocean floor by about 1,640 feet (500 meters) and causes the so-called Bermuda oceanic swell; Frazer is now looking at other islands around the world to determine if Bermuda’s rock layer is one of a kind. There is usually a scientific explanation for mysteries if we research long enough, keep using new technology, and don’t give in to panic and folklore.

Yet another never-give-up story comes from the Dead Sea Scrolls and an undeciphered writing systems known as Cryptic B which was found on a number of fragments and thought to hide heretical text because of its challenging code that has defied cracking – until recently when Emmanuel Oliveiro of the University of Groningen who saw similarities between Cryptic B and the decoded Cryptic A, including some something that looked like modified "Jewish" Hebrew letters - a sequence of five letters that looked like the five-letter Hebrew word Yisrael, spelled yod, sin, resh, aleph, lamed; he also identified a numeric theme that possibly referred to dates; putting it all together, he reveals in his new study that the code is not hiding any heretical secrets but may have been used “to convey a prestige to a text. If you could read it, you had access to these manuscripts and were probably of a certain class or ranking within this pious community"; what’s most amazing is that these fragments are so tiny, yet tell so much. We’re lucky these are the Dead Sea scrolls and not the Dead Sea floppy discs.

The 1966 science fiction movie ‘Fantastic Voyage’ moved one step closer to science reality with the announcement that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor that is less than 1 millimeter in size or smaller than a grain of salt; this is the world’s smallest robot able to make decisions for itself; once the materials used to make the microrobots are deemed safe to use inside a human body, the next step will be to make them communicate with each other rather than just with a human controller; David Blaauw, a co-author of the paper in Science Robotics and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, says: “It would not surprise me if in 10 years, we would have real uses for this type of robot”. In the meantime, this would make a great plot for “Honey – I Shrunk the Doctor!”

In a recent interview, retired Navy Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, who was also an oceanographer, laid out why we should be looking in the oceans for aliens: “We’ve only mapped the seabed of the ocean floor to about 25% of its total. We’ve not even explored 10% of the ocean volume. If there were any extraterrestrial visitors that did not want to be seen, this is where they’d hide”; while Gallaudet doesn’t say there are aliens in our oceans, he reminds the interviewer that US Navy pilots and other personnel have observed unidentified aerial and underwater phenomena and recorded them on radar and sensors crossing the ocean, emerging from the water and diving back in without any resistance or loss of speed”; Gallaudet claims he has received reports personally from naval officers, acoustic intelligence specialists and sailors describing objects whose speed, maneuvers and transmedium abilities defy conventional physics; he’s giving these interviews because he has no idea what they are but he believes someone does: “Right now, I don’t know, and the government’s not releasing what it knows”. Thank you for your post-service service, Admiral Gallaudet.

Those looking for some good news predictions for 2026 can turn to St. Januarius, the Catholic saint who was martyred in 305 CE – two sealed vials allegedly containing his blood are kept at the Duomo di Santa Maria Assunta in Naples, Italy, and brought out three times a year for faithful believers who watch for 24 hours to see if it liquefies, which is a good omen; the ritual dates back to at least 1383 and has allegedly predicted the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Nazi occupation in 1943, and natural disasters in 1980, 2016 and 2020; the Catholic Church does not recognize this liquefication as a miracle (even though it was allegedly witnessed by Pope Pius IX in 1848) and skeptics attribute it to the heat of the holder’s hands on the solidified liquid that has never been verified to be the blood of Januarius (or anyone else); if you’re still a believer, the blood liquefied on December 16, so look for the first four months of 2026 to be good – at least until the blood of Januarius gets brought out again.