so what are these things a prank a scam
bioterrorism welcome to watch mojo and
today we're counting down our picks for
the top 10
creepiest mysteries of 2020.
it was a sudden shape
that lasted just moments but it was
enough for motion
activated cameras to kick in that's our
american 1997 we just passed the guy in
a jet pack
if it's some other phenomenon i think
i'm just curious yeah i'm not worried
just curious
for this list we're looking at eerie
discoveries sightings
and strange happenings from 2020 that
still have us scratching our heads
which 2020 mystery has you lying awake
at night
let us know in the comments number 10
mysterious drone sightings this year
kicked off on an
unsettling note as mysterious drones
were spotted in northeastern colorado
and southwestern nebraska
as well as southeastern wyoming one
woman describing the skies above her as
christmas lights
it was odd it honestly it reminded me of
war of the worlds
it's really concerning do they have
cameras on them where they're watching
us
and what we're doing while there had
been reports of unidentified drones
since late 2019
it was in january 2020 that the story
really blew up
larger than the average drone some
claimed they were the size of
cars adding to the creep factor reports
suggest the drones were flying in grid
patterns
one witness estimated that he saw up to
30 drones flying at night
some experts speculating that the drones
could be flying for private companies
conducting mapping or surveys for things
like oil and natural gas
other theories suggest they're a part of
practice runs for the kind of drone
shows put on at sporting events or theme
parks
while many of these sightings were given
reasonable explanations
a lot of them are still unidentified
reports seem to die down after january
although it remains unclear who was
operating these drones
and what purpose they served at this
point while the drones may be mysterious
they don't appear malicious number nine
cosmic object swallowed by black hole
it might sound like something you'd read
in a comic book but this story is
all science and no fiction about 790
million light years from our planet
an unidentified cosmic object merged
with a black hole of 23
solar masses this resulted in a
gravitational wave signal known as gw
1908-14 which made it all the way to
earth on august 14
2019. by june 2020 astronomers still had
yet to determine what the mysterious
object was
although it was reportedly about 2.6
solar masses
nothing escapes a black hole not even
light everything that gets
sucked into a black hole gets sucked
into a singularity where the laws of
physics completely break down
theories have ranged from the heaviest
of neutron stars to the lightest of
black holes
quote either way it breaks a record said
vicki calaguera of northwestern
university
calaguera also stated quote we haven't
seen
with confidence anything like this
before
number eight groaning noise in southwest
anchorage
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in february 2020 a mysterious groaning
sound made its way from midtown to west
anchorage
waking up to the noise at around five in
the morning some residents only heard it
once
others claimed that the sound repeated
for a few hours and only got louder
although this wasn't the first time the
noise had been detected in this area
reports were especially high this time
the noise has been compared to quote
a foghorn a submarine scraping the
bottom of a pool
and a big backhoe that was giving birth
yet nobody can determine for sure where
it emanated from
maybe it was a snowplow maybe it was
construction or
maybe it was trumpets in the sky as some
have said
if it's some other phenomenon
i think i'm just curious yeah i'm not
worried just curious
number seven the la jet pack flyer
we've all dreamed about soaring through
the sky in a jet pack and technology may
finally be catching up with movies like
the rocketeer
how do i look like a hood ornament
in late august two pilots reported that
they saw quote
a guy in a jet pack roughly 3000 feet
above los angeles international airport
that's our american 1997 we just passed
the guy in a jet pack
then another jet pack sighting moments
later from a southwest pilot
about six weeks later in october another
jetpack sighting was reported in
southern california
it's unknown if this was the same
jetpack flyer as before
in any case the mysterious jetpack
operator made it up to six thousand feet
on this flight
authorities are taking the jetpack
incident seriously warning it can be as
dangerous as a drone
flying near passenger planes the fbi has
been investigating this mystery
although the identity of this guy in a
jet pack remains up in the air
our money is on tony stark no see this
isn't a game
you do not send civilian equipment into
my active war zone you understand that
this is not a piece of equipment i'm in
it it's a shoot
it's me number six seeds
everywhere so what are these things a
prank
a scam bioterrorism tell us if this
sounds familiar
you go outside your house look in your
mailbox or down at your driveway
and there's a package of seeds just in
there you're not alone
these unsolicited seeds have been
randomly popping up at homes in the u.s
canada and ireland as of late the
department of agriculture food and the
marine has advised against planting
these seeds
if you find yourself on the receiving
end of suspicious seeds
don't handle them don't dispose of or
compost them
and most importantly don't plant them
meanwhile
the united states department of
agriculture and canadian food inspection
agency chalked this up to a
quote brushing scam the usda also noted
that the packages have been addressed
from china post
but a rep from china's foreign ministry
claims that these labels were forgeries
the fear is they may grow into some sort
of invasive species
they're not trying to trace the origins
of all the packages
at this point we wouldn't be surprised
if pod people were behind this mystery
miles where do they come from i don't
know if they are seeds or seed pods they
must grow someplace on a plant probably
and somebody or something wants this
duplication to take place number five
where in the world was kim jong-un
people go missing every day
but for a north korean dictator to
vanish from the limelight for almost
three weeks
well it's unusual to say the least
that's what happened with kim jong-un in
april however
this isn't the first time he's dropped
from public view disappearing for six
weeks in 2014 and re-emerging with a
cane
after apparently recovering from ankle
surgery people first suspected something
was wrong when kim wasn't present to
celebrate the birthday of his late
grandfather kim il-sung
in his absence from the public many
called kim's health into question
especially since the kovad-19 pandemic
was now in full swing
western intelligence in north korea is
so bad that we have no way to verify or
to deny these rumors
but we have no idea we can't only wait
until the north koreans themselves
tell us whether kim is alive or dead
there's still no concrete evidence
however
confirming that kim had the virus or
that he was even unwell
satellite images later showed kim
jong-un's train near his private resort
on the country's east coast
that did not prove or disprove kim was
there or
even alive only adding to the mystery
kim eventually resurfaced for a
ribbon-cutting ceremony in may
but no explanation was given as to where
the supreme leader had been
for almost 20 days number four
life on venus many have speculated about
life on mars
but life on venus sounds especially
far-fetched
like it's the hottest planet in our
solar system with a surface temperature
that can reach more than 800 degrees
fahrenheit
venus has what we call a runaway
greenhouse effect its atmosphere is a
hundred times the mass of earth's and
mostly carbon dioxide
this traps so much heat that the surface
of venus reaches a temperature hot
enough to melt lead
and with a pressure that would crush
most submarines then again
sometimes life finds away in september
scientists discovered phosphine a toxic
gas in venus's atmosphere
here is what phosphine looks like this
is a computer-generated image
usually on earth this gas is associated
as we've just been hearing with microbes
living in
oxygen-poor environments like swamps or
in the guts of animals
on earth phosphine is produced from
microbial life
while some believe that this could be
evidence of either past or present life
on venus
subsequent studies have cast doubt on
the idea with venus the scientists
tried to find another explanation for
the phosphine but had to rule
all of them out not a single process we
looked at could produce phosphine in
in high enough quantities to explain our
team's findings of phosphine in the
venous atmosphere
in october it was reported that
re-analyses of available data have
failed to find traces of phosphine
for now we'll just have to keep watching
the stars and
the clouds number three the missing star
there are countless stars scattered
throughout space but some
shine brighter than others one in a
dwarf galaxy roughly 75 million light
years away
has been on our radar for almost 20
years
this star stands out with a luminous
blue glow and
shines even brighter than our solar
system's sun then
one day it was just gone first reported
in 2020
astronomers are still pondering where
this blue giant went
maybe it collapsed into a black hole but
that would usually result in a vibrant
supernova
if this was the case it'd be a first
according to andrew allen of trinity
college dublin
other theories suggest the star lost
some of its mass or
dust is obscuring the view or maybe
galactus got to it
number two radio signal from space
in 2007 the first fast radio burst
or frb was reported another first
occurred in 2019
when scientists managed to trace an frb
back to its original galaxy they used to
be a one-off there'd just be this burst
and then you'd never see it again and so
that made it even more mysterious
even after all these years astronomers
still don't know what exactly causes
these signals
although they may be on the verge of a
major breakthrough
in february 2020 it was reported that
one frb
repeated every 16.35 days
and those are the exciting ones because
when they repeat you can figure out
where they are
where they are is half a billion light
years away one researcher describes this
discovery as quote
an important clue to the nature of this
object later in the year
astronomers dwindled down the list of
possible frb sources
which includes quote compact object
mergers and magnetars arising from
normal core collapse supernovae
research is ongoing but until we know
where these signals come from
we'll just have to keep listening but
could it be a message from far away
you can't rule it out i mean i cannot
say categorically well then we can keep
guessing
and as they've said since the discovery
of radio signals
stay tuned before we unveil our top pick
here are some honorable mentions lemur
abduction
a lemur went missing and was found the
next day four
miles from the zoo seen here in a cage
moments after he was captured
on a daly city preschool playground all
the kids were thrilled to see him up
close
he was first spotted by one of the kids
in front of chris lee's car around 5 pm
apparently eating from a bush shake and
boom
in westmobile whatever caused the sun
shake
it wasn't an earthquake it was a sudden
shape
that lasted just moments but it was
enough for motion
activated cameras to kick in how did
murder hornets get to the us
maybe they were accidentally shipped
with imported goods
dubbed the murder hornet for its
powerful sting and the way it
decapitates its prey
this is the first time the world's
largest hornet has been seen in the u.s
in its native asia vespa mandarinia is
notorious
metal monoliths everywhere an art
collective has claimed credit
but we still like to believe it was
aliens damn it one of the crew members
notices the monolith points toward a
split in the canyon wall
perhaps suggesting the alignment might
have some type of stonehenge-like
significance
it's just wild who killed moscow's
sausage king
with a crossbow in a sauna no less
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number one the pentagon confirms ufo
sighting oh my gosh
though
it's only fitting that the same year
that spacex began transporting
astronauts into space
the universe would get infinitely more
mysterious the biggest mystery came out
of the united states department of
defense
which confirmed not just one not just
two
but three ufo sightings in april 2020
the pentagon released three navy videos
featuring
quote unidentified aerial phenomena the
videos
known as gimbal go fast and clear were
filmed between
2004 and 2015. the pentagon says that
these videos are being released now to
quote
clear up any misconceptions after they
were previously leaked but that the
objects remain
unidentified granted this wasn't the
first time these videos were exposed to
the public
as they were published online in the
late 2010s
all of these videos have been leaked in
the past but the us government now
confirms
they are genuine regardless the fact
that the pentagon has now officially
declassified these videos only further
piques our interest
while the secret may be out we're still
no closer to learning the truth
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