This Week's Weird News 10/20/23 – KFI AM 640
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The Pentagon’s annual report on UFOs, a pair of clowns causing trouble in their respective communities, and a Fiji mermaid that was given a CT scan were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
The Pentagon provided an update on their investigation into the UFO phenomenon by way of an annual report released this week. The summation revealed that the DoD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has collected another 291 UAP reports from both military and commercial pilots. Indicating that investigators have become rather adept at solving these cases, the report noted that the "majority" of UFOs that they have examined "demonstrate ordinary characteristics of readily explainable sources." A glimmer of hope for those who believe the phenomenon is alien in nature could be found in the concession that there are a handful of cases wherein the objects remain unexplained and "display interesting signatures such as high-speed travel and unknown morphologies."
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A Fiji mermaid found its way into the news this past week when a class of radiology students used their instruments to peer inside the carnival curiosity, which sports a human-like head and a fish’s body, in order to see how it was constructed. Ohio’s Clark County Historical Society came into possession of the wondrous relic back in 1906 when it was given to them by a sailor who purchased the oddity while stationed in Japan. Looking for a unique project for their radiology students, Northern Kentucky University was granted access to the decades-old piece and, following a series of scans, determined that it was comprised of a monkey’s head, a fish’s body, and, surprisingly, limbs from an unidentified amphibian.
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Much to the chagrin of those who suffer from a fear of clowns, this past week saw a pair of haunting harlequins pop up in the news. First, over in Scotland, a prankster who has been roaming around a village dressed as Pennywise wound up on the national news when a morning television program managed to track him down and interview him in what was a truly nightmarish segment that many left viewers at home unsettled. Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, police cautioned residents to be on guard following reports of a clown menacing residents of a city. Making the spate of sightings particularly worrisome to authorities is that videos of the troublemaker suggest that he uses a taser to terrify those unfortunate enough to encounter him.
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