Escaped hamsters grounding a plane at a Spanish airport, a strange serial vandal in Britain, and a Senate hearing on UFOs were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
UFOs were the talk of Congress yet again this past week as the Senate held a hearing wherein the head of the Pentagon's UAP program provided an update on their work investigating the phenomenon. Dr. Jon Kosloski noted that the group found prosaic explanations for many of the cases they have received and that they have yet to find any evidence of extraterrestrials. That said, he did provide details on a handful of reports wherein the unidentified object was so fantastic in its appearance or behavior that they were left scratching their heads as to what it could have been. Other UFO items from the past week included new details on the object shot down over Canada in February 2023 and videos of odd anomalies seen over New York City and a Mexican volcano.
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This past week featured two strange stories centered around large groups of animals causing chaos. First, in Spain, an airport was forced to ground a plane after it was discovered that dozens of hamsters being shipped by a pet store had managed to escape their container. Fearing that the rodents might chew critical wires in the $105 million Airbus 320 in which they roamed, workers spent four days painstakingly collecting all of the critters from the aircraft's nooks and crannies until it was safe to take to the skies again. Meanwhile, in Thailand, police officers were forced to take refuge within their headquarters after hundreds of monkeys escaped their enclosure and overtook a city for several hours.
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The weirdest story of the week came to us by way of Britain, where a town is struggling to deal with a persistent vandal who has specifically targeted a solitary street crossing button for the last two years. Officials in the community of Tonbridge lament that they have spent thousands of pounds fixing the damaged devices since the ridiculous reign of terror began. Making the case all the more curious, the most recent incident saw the miscreant leave behind a rather unsettling message that was constructed like a ransom note and informed town officials that they had only themselves to blame for the trashed buttons because "you now [sic] what you did in 2012."
For more strange and unusual stories from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.