This Week's Weird News 1/19/24 – iHeart
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A pair of Peruvian dolls similar to the ‘aliens’ shown to Mexico’s Congress, UFO footage from a military base in Iraq, and an exhibition celebrating Argentina’s Nessie were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
A pair of puzzling UFO videos popped up in the news this past week, beginning with a tantalizing piece of thermal imaging footage captured at the US military base in Iraq back in 2017 and was recently leaked to filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. The odd object featured in the scene has been dubbed the ‘Jellyfish’ UFO and is said to have been submerged in water for 17 minutes before it suddenly took to the sky. From a somewhat similar perspective, a flight attendant on a passenger jet cruising over Europe inadvertently captured footage of a colorful object in the sky alongside her airliner. Only noticing the oddity when she looked at her video a few minutes later, the curious anomaly left the woman wondering if the strange sight might have been alien in nature.
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This past week saw a new twist in the tale of the alleged ‘alien bodies’ revealed to Mexico’s Congress last October as scientists in Peru unveiled a pair of dolls that bear an uncanny resemblance to the purported otherworldly beings. Experts who examined the diminutive humanoid figurines found that they had been made in the modern era using animal bones and glue. As such, the forensic archaeologist who headed the investigation declared that the headline-making ‘aliens’ from last year were, in fact, simply dolls as well. While one might suspect that this would be the final chapter in the tale of the almost-iconic specimens presented in Mexico, the sheer strangeness of the saga so far suggests it may not be over just yet.
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A legendary lake monster in Argentina found itself in the spotlight this past week thanks to a new walking tour that will celebrate the curious creature that has captivated the country for over a decade. First entering the public consciousness in 1922 by way of a pair of tantalizing witness reports that described a plesiosaur-like animal in Nahuel Huapi Lake, the oddity sparked something of a frenzy at the time and has since become part of the culture of the region in a manner akin to its Scottish ‘cousin’ Nessie. Beginning this weekend, visitors to the site will be able to learn about the rich history of the ‘monster’ via a newly launched exhibition titled ‘The Plesiosaur of the Lagoon … More Than a Legend.’
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