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A fantastic UFO sighting filmed by an airline pilot, possible drone footage of the Lake Champlain Monster, and a bizarre dispute between a conspiracy theorist and a Florida county were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
A pair of legendary lake monsters swam their way into the headlines this past week, beginning with an intriguing piece of drone footage from Lake Champlain. The video, captured by a pair of filmmakers making a fictional movie about the site’s resident cryptid, Champ, features a peculiar shape that they believe just might be the elusive aquatic creature. However, not everyone was convinced by the footage as seasoned Champ researcher Katie Elizabeth told C2C that the anomaly was probably just a rock. Meanwhile, over at Loch Ness, ‘monster’ hunters using a hydrophone to listen for underwater sounds picked up a puzzling pulsing noise that they likened to a heartbeat.
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This past week featured a particularly thrilling UFO video captured by a Boeing 747 pilot flying from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Abuja, Nigeria. Filmed from within the cockpit of the aircraft, the footage features Captain Ruud Van Pangemanan and the rest of the flight crew reacting in amazement as a sizeable orb appeared out on the horizon. To the astonishment of the witnesses, the curious ball of light was soon joined by a second illumination. The pilot later mused that the objects were genuine UFOs as, based on his experience and observation, they could not have been terrestrial aircraft, drones, stars, or satellites.
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By far the weirdest story of the week came by way of Florida, where a conspiracy theorist filed a lawsuit against a county after he was unceremoniously tossed out of a public board meeting. The bizarre dispute began back in May when Justin Harvey used the public comment portion of a Brevard County Commission meeting to put forward the outrageous idea that the Challenger space shuttle tragedy of 1986 was a hoax. Shortly into his presentation, he was informed that the time was to be used for pertinent county business rather than litigating a nearly 40-year-old conspiracy theory. This led to a wild scene wherein he was ultimately removed by police, which his newly filed lawsuit asserts was a form of "viewpoint discrimination."
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