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

Astronomers just found a new object way out in our Solar System, and it’s giving us hints about what things were like billions of years ago. This object, called 2023 KQ14 or “Ammonite,” is like a space rock that orbits super far from the Sun. It was spotted using powerful telescopes and written about in a science journal Nature Astronomy. Ammonite is what scientists call a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). That’s a fancy name for stuff that orbits the Sun way past Neptune, the farthest big planet in our Solar System. Think of the Solar System as a giant playground with the Sun in the middle. Planets like Earth are pretty close to the Sun, but Ammonite is super far away. Even at its closest point to the Sun, called the perihelion, it’s 66 times farther than Earth is from the Sun. That’s about 6 billion miles away! To measure that distance, scientists use something called an astronomical unit (au), where 1 au is the distance from Earth to the Sun. So, Ammonite’s closest point is 66 au. This space rock is special because it’s a Sedna-like object. That means it’s like another far-out object called Sedna, which has a super stretched-out orbit, like a long, skinny oval instead of a circle. Ammonite’s orbit is huge—it has a semi-major axis of 252 au, which is like the average length of its oval path around the Sun. It also tilts a bit, about 11 degrees, like a slightly slanted racetrack. What’s cool is that Ammonite’s orbit fits into a gap scientists didn’t understand before. They call this the q-gap, which is just a missing spot in the distances where they expected to find objects like this. Finding Ammonite is like finding a missing puzzle piece that helps make the picture clearer. Spotting Ammonite was tough because it’s so far away and really dim, like trying to see a tiny candle from miles away at night. It’s probably about the size of a small moon, but it’s so distant that astronomers needed super strong telescopes to find it. Their hard work paid off because Ammonite’s orbit has stayed the same for 4.5 billion years—that’s as old as the Solar System! It’s like a time capsule that hasn’t been bumped around by planets like Neptune, so it can tell us what things were like when the Solar System was born. The coolest part? Ammonite’s weird orbit might be a clue about something big out there, like a mysterious Planet Nine that nobody’s seen yet. Scientists think a big planet or a group of objects might have pushed Ammonite into its path long ago, kind of like how a big kid might nudge a smaller one on the playground. The study doesn’t prove Planet Nine exists, but it makes scientists wonder. The post Astronomers Spot a Rare Object Way Beyond Neptune appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Following recent media attention surrounding the UK UFO Disclosure Group, a senior figure within the British intelligence community has come forward with stunning revelations: contrary to public belief, the United Kingdom’s UFO investigation programme is not defunct—it’s active, covert, and now run by the private sector. According to the source, British defence contractor BAE Systems is at the heart of the operation, overseeing a modernised version of the UK’s UFO programme across several secure facilities within the country. In a revelation that echoes similar claims made in the United States, it’s alleged that three non-human craft have been retrieved and are currently being held in classified locations: one linked to the well-documented Pentyrch incident in Wales, one recovered from Scotland and one from the Irish Sea, near Blackpool. Perhaps even more astonishing is the claim that the UK has an active UFO crash retrieval team—a rapid-response unit capable of reaching any downed object within 20 minutes anywhere in the UK. “These revelations fundamentally change the landscape of our disclosure campaign,” said Mark Christopher Lee, founder of the UK UFO Disclosure Group. “The public deserves to know the truth about what’s happening on British soil, and the fact that private defence contractors may be controlling this information raises serious questions about oversight, accountability, and transparency.” The UK UFO Disclosure Group will be taking this new intelligence to contacts in the House of Lords, with the goal of pressing for urgent Parliamentary debate and official inquiry. “We’re not just chasing lights in the sky,” Mark Christopher Lee added. “We’re chasing the truth—and we believe the British public has a right to it.” The UK UFO Disclosure Group is a citizen-led initiative advocating for government transparency around unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). We work with political, media, and scientific stakeholders to bring facts to light in the public interest. The post British UFO Programme Still Active, Private Company Holding Recovered Craft appeared first on Anomalien.com.

One outlandish feature of the world of the paranormal is the idea of portals popping up in various places. These portals are said to lead to other locations or nowhere at all, and sometimes are even said to act as doorways to other worlds that sometimes allow things from the other side to come in. Portals seem like something one would be more likely to find out in the wilderness or remote areas, but it seems that sometimes these phenomena can happen right in the safety of our own homes.