An NBA star's surprising thoughts on the moon landing, Russian cosmonauts trying to find the source of a mysterious hole found at the ISS, an eerie entity appearing to pop up behind a woman during a web chat and a possible glimpse of a reptilian on a Ukrainian internet program were among the strange and unusual stories that caught our attention this past week.
One of the weirder mysteries of 2018 saw some new development this week when two Russian cosmonauts performed a spacewalk outside of the ISS to examine the increasingly suspicious hole that was recently discovered in a Soyuz capsule docked to the station. Although the mission itself seemingly did not provide any smoking gun which could explain the baffling damage, the endeavor allowed for a new perspective on the hole as well as some samples from the spot that will, hopefully, lead to an answer as to what or who may have created it.
A truly weird video out of Washington state surfaced online this week and seemingly showed some kind of entity appear behind an unsuspecting woman during a video chat. Was it an alien? A ghost? A clever hoax? We're still not quite sure. Similarly, an odd piece of footage from the Ukraine appeared to capture a moment when the eyes of a TV presenter suddenly looked reptilian for a split second, leaving some to wonder if the unsettling rumors of such beings lurking among us may actually be true.
Weather watchers in a number of states were left scratching their heads earlier this week when radar showed a number of odd blobs suddenly appear over parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The puzzling sight was particularly perplexing to meteorologists as there were no storms in the area at the time. Fortunately, fears that the anomalies could have been alien in nature or a sign of clandestine weather control were put to rest when the source of the strangeness was traced back to a National Guard jet burning off some chaff.
This past week put the infamous moon hoax conspiracy theory on the proverbial front page for the first time in quite a while when one of the most famous athletes in the world today, Stephen Curry, expressed skepticism that the historic journey ever really happened. As one can imagine, this set off something of a firestorm with numerous media outlets mocking the Golden State Warriors' star for his unorthodox opinion. It culminated with NASA inviting Curry to their Houston facility to see their collection of moon rocks.