Blue-green fireball over northern Vietnam
Dashcams across Hanoi caught a green streak. Astronomers say it was a bright meteor.
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The Wow! Signal: 72 Seconds From Sagittarius (1977)
On 15 August 1977, Ohio State’s Big Ear telescope logged a strong, narrowband radio burst near the hydrogen line, and a volunteer wrote ‘Wow!’ beside it. Here’s what the printout means, the null searches since, and the 2024–2025 Arecibo Wow! papers pointing to a natural cause.
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Scientists Make Miniature ‘Ball Lightning’ in the Lab
A Chinese Academy of Sciences team fired a laser pulse at a tungsten needle in argon gas and made a glowing plasma ball less than a millimetre across that held together like an electromagnetic soliton. It is a lab analogue for ball lightning, not proof of how the natural kind works.
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The Tunguska Event: The Siberian Sky Explosion (1908)
On the morning of 30 June 1908, a huge explosion over remote Siberia flattened about 2,150 km² of forest. No crater was found. Scientists say a space rock blew up in the air.
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The Taos Hum: The Sound Only Some People Hear (early 1990s)
In the early 1990s, residents of Taos, New Mexico, complained of a low, throbbing hum that most people couldn’t hear. Congress asked scientists to investigate. Their verdict: ‘we are left with a mystery.’
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Saturday-Night Booms Rattle New Holstein, Wisconsin
For a couple of months in 2026, explosion-like booms woke New Holstein, Wisconsin, mostly in the early hours of Saturdays. A backyard camera caught a flash before one bang. Police have assigned an officer, and the mayor thinks a person is behind it.
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The Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship Found Sailing Empty (1872)
On 4 December 1872 the crew of the Dei Gratia found the Mary Celeste drifting between the Azores and Portugal, seaworthy, well supplied and empty. Ten people were gone, along with the only lifeboat. What the salvage court heard, how fiction rewrote the story, and why the leading explanation is a hurried abandonment.
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The Record Neutrino That Might Have Come From a Black Hole in Another Dimension
In February 2023, a detector on the Mediterranean seabed caught the most energetic neutrino ever recorded. A September 2026 paper in Physical Review D proposes that it came from an exploding black hole partly hidden in a fifth dimension. Other physicists call that a lot to hang on one particle.
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A Month of Booms Puts a Texas School on Lockdown
For about a month in late summer 2026, booms rattled windows in Winters, Texas, and one sent Winters ISD into a brief lockdown. Residents hear a plane afterwards but never see it. Dyess AFB says it wasn’t its aircraft. Here is what’s documented, and what isn’t.
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The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Nine Hikers, One Slashed Tent (1959)
In February 1959, nine experienced ski hikers cut their way out of their tent on a Ural mountainside and died in the cold. Russia’s 2020 review blamed an avalanche, and a 2021 peer-reviewed model showed how a small slab could have done it. The record, the photographs, the science and what’s still open.
