Creepy 'demon' fish with no eyes found hidden beneath 'Area 51' military base

Scientists have discovered a bizarre, eyeless 'demon fish' living in toxic underground pools beneath a secretive US military base tied to UFO rumours

BY Liam Randall - News Reporter

An eerie "demon fish" with no eyes and completely transparent skin has been discovered lurking in subterranean waters directly beneath a secretive US military base dubbed "Alabama's Area 51".

The tiny, creepy creature, measuring just two inches long, was uncovered in a single, pitch-black underground cave system beneath the US Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.

Scientists who stumbled across the terrifying-looking specimen have officially named it Demogorgonichthys arcanus, or the "demon cavefish".

Despite being discovered beneath a high-security facility closely tied to classified rocket research and long-standing UFO rumours, the strange organism isn't an alien lifeform. However, genetic analysis revealed it is an incredible evolutionary anomaly that split from its closest ancestors over 11.6 million years ago.

Having adapted to a life of total, relentless darkness deep underground, the fish completely shed its eyes and skin pigmentation, replacing them with specialized sensory organs scattered across its body to hunt and navigate.

Astonishingly, it evolved side-by-side in the exact same cave pools alongside another species, the Southern Cavefish (Typhlichthys subterraneus), but followed an entirely different genetic path.

Dr Matthew Niemiller, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Alabama, said: "This is one of the last places we'd have bet on it.

Scientists who stumbled across the terrifying-looking specimen have named it the 'demon cavefish'

(Image: Jam Press/Matthew L. Niemiller, Niemiller Nature LLC)

"Finding an entirely unknown, new genus of freshwater fish in eastern North America today is a little like finding a new kind of big cat.

"The group is so well known, we thought the big surprises were behind us. To have one turn up in a cave we've watched for three decades is a real reminder to stay curious. It was genuinely surprising."

Only a handful of the ghostly fish were spotted between 2019 and 2025 during surveys published in Scientific Reports.

Because it exists only within a single location beneath the military base, experts warn it is critically endangered and extremely vulnerable to environmental changes.

Iron-clad security around Redstone Arsenal has inadvertently protected the cave from public developments.

However, researchers discovered the creature's fragile habitat is actively contaminated with toxic remnants of chemical weapons and explosives.

Writing in their study, the research team said: "Trace metals, including cadmium, chromium, and lead, have been detected at elevated concentrations in water samples from Bobcat Cave over the past two decades."

The contamination stems from an old industrial zone on the base where the military historically disposed of weapons materials, which slowly leaked into the groundwater.

First opened in 1941, Redstone Arsenal was the birthplace of NASA and currently employs over 45,000 personnel.

However, its recent selection as the headquarters for US Space Command has sparked wild internet conspiracies that ET technology was relocated there from Area 51 in Nevada.

Before her death in 2022, local anti-gravity researcher Amy Eskridge fuelled the rumours during an interview, claiming: "Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama is the biggest f****** deal that you've never heard of."

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Arctic fossil abandoned in 1948 proves to be record-size Triassic hunter

by Sandee Oster, Phys.org

Fossiel dat in 1948 in de buurt van de Noordpool werd achtergelaten, blijkt van gigantisch onbekend dier

Hoe het fossiel van Arctobatrachus urdensis er in 1948 uitzag (A–C), de schedel zoals die er nu uitziet (D), en een gereconstrueerde tekening (E). Schaalbalk = 10 cm.

Foto: Schoch et al. 2026

 Jeannette Kras - Redacteur 

Bijna tachtig jaar geleden stuitte een Britse expeditie op de gehavende resten van een gigantisch fossiel op de top van Bereneiland, onderdeel van Spitsbergen. Het gevaarte bleek te groot om mee te nemen. De onderzoekers maakten foto’s, namen enkele botten mee en lieten de rest achter. Decennialang leek het fossiel verloren. Tot nu. Het blijkt te gaan om de grootste vertegenwoordiger ooit van een merkwaardige groep oeroude, amfibieachtige dieren.

De nieuwe soort krijgt de naam Arctobatrachus urdensis. Het dier behoorde tot de plagiosauriërs, een uitgestorven groep grote roofdieren die tijdens het Trias leefden, zo’n 251 tot 201 miljoen jaar geleden. Met een geschatte lichaamslengte van ongeveer 2,7 meter torende Arctobatrachus urdensis ver boven alle eerder bekende plagiosauriërs uit. “De soort was een van de overlevers van een extreem hete periode die enkele miljoenen jaren eerder een enorme uitstervingsgolf veroorzaakte”, vertelt paleontoloog Rainer Schoch van het natuurhistorisch museum in Stuttgart.

Fossiel raakte tientallen jaren uit beeld

Plagiosauriërs hadden een opvallend uiterlijk. Ze leefden op de bodem van rivieren, meren en ondiepe zeeën, waar ze roerloos wachtten tot een prooi dichtbij kwam. Vervolgens zogen ze die met hun enorme bek naar binnen. Hun brede kaken zaten vol met talloze kleine tanden. “De schedel was veel breder dan hij lang was en de omtrek lijkt op een boemerang”, zegt Schoch.

Fossielen van plagiosauriërs zijn eerder gevonden op uiteenlopende plekken, van Brazilië tot China. Het exemplaar van Bjørnøya, zoals Bereneiland officieel heet, kende echter een uitzonderlijke geschiedenis. Nadat het in 1948 was ontdekt, gingen onderzoekers ervan uit dat het de strenge Arctische winters niet zou overleven. Pas in 1984 stuitte een Noorse expeditie bij toeval opnieuw op het fossiel.

In de 37 jaar dat niemand het had gezien, had het flink te lijden gehad onder het poolklimaat. Scheuren en ontbrekende botten verrieden hoe wind, regen en vorst hun sporen hadden nagelaten. Na een opgraving van een week werd het fossiel veiliggesteld. Vervolgens bleef het opnieuw jarenlang grotendeels onaangeroerd, totdat het in het museum in Stuttgart zorgvuldig werd geprepareerd voor het huidige onderzoek.

Leestip: 

• Fossiel van vliegend reptiel overleefde 113 miljoen jaar en verraadt nog wat hij at

Gigantische schedel

De oude foto’s uit 1948 bleken van onschatbare waarde. Daarmee konden ontbrekende delen van de schedel worden gereconstrueerd. De schedel was ongeveer 70 centimeter breed, maar slechts 21 centimeter lang. Hij had een bijna perfecte halfronde vorm.

De enorme afmetingen, de grote tanden en de uitzonderlijk brede bek wijzen erop dat het dier een actieve jager was en mogelijk tot de toppredatoren van zijn leefgebied behoorde. Tegelijkertijd wijkt de bouw van het fossiel duidelijk af van alle bekende plagiosauriërs, waardoor duidelijk is dat het om een nieuwe soort gaat.

Analyse van de evolutionaire verwanten laat bovendien zien dat Arctobatrachus urdensis tot de vroegste leden van de plagiosauriërs behoort. Daarmee biedt het fossiel een zeldzame blik op de voorouders van deze opmerkelijke diergroep. In hun vroege geschiedenis waren plagiosauriërs actievere zwemmende dieren met een minder afgeplat lichaam. Pas later ontwikkelden ze de sterk afgeplatte lichaamsvorm waarmee ze langdurig op de bodem konden liggen.

De vondst levert daarmee nieuwe inzichten op in de evolutie van deze mysterieuze waterroofdieren uit het Trias. “Veel mensen zijn gefascineerd door ons verleden”, zegt Schoch. “Hoe zagen de planeet, het klimaat en het leven er bijvoorbeeld 240 miljoen jaar geleden uit? Fossielen zoals deze reusachtige plagiosauriër met zijn platte kop bieden een zeldzame blik op die verdwenen wereld.”

Bronmateriaal

• "A giant plagiosaurid temnospondyl from Bjørnøya (Svalbard, Norway) and the origin of the plagiosaurid body plan" - Papers in Palaeontolog
  
• Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: Schoch et al. 2026

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UFO Makes Loops Over Cleveland, Texas, USA On Aug 10, 2026, UAP Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 19, 2026

Location of sighting: Cleveland, Texas, USA

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Now spinning UFOs are not unheard of. I have seen hundreds of reports of UFOs spinning in loops, so don't think it doest happen. When this person posted the video people left comments saying it was Venus, clouds, ect and even came to the conclusion it was his truck causing Venus to bounce around. Clearly they didn't think this out or they would have noticed that when he was moving around, the from inside the truck to outside, it was still moving. And its focus was great, nothing out like telephone pole wires were shaking, instead the wires were steady and focused the whole time and so were the clouds, this means the UFO really was spinning in loops. 

Awesome rare footage. Don't let non believers change the truth into a lie.  The truth is in the details. To attack an eyewitness when the attackers were not even there to see it for themselves is a very ignorant act indeed. 

Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily 

 

Eyewitness states: 

Recorded this while at work yesterday. Any ideas as to what this might be?

 

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To this day, unusual objects continue to be observed in the Martian atmosphere. Some have been interpreted as possible UFOs or other unknown phenomena moving through Martian airspace. While there is no confirmed evidence that these objects represent intelligent life, their presence has raised questions about what may still exist on or beneath the surface of Mars. 

The next image was captured by the Right Navigation Camera aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover on Sol 3924, corresponding to August 20, 2023, at 22:27:46 UTC. 

It appears to show a strange entity in the Martian sky resembling a tripod-like or jellyfish-like life form, seemingly interacting with the surface below. 

Coincidence? The entity's appearance is remarkably similar to the tripod-like creatures depicted in War of the Worlds and the heptapod-like beings featured in Arrival. There may be more happening on Mars than NASA is telling us. 

Kari Sivertzen, who discovered the jellyfish-like object, as well as Joe White, Scott Waring and Jean Ward also identified several other possible UFO's in images of the Martian sky. According to their analysis, these UFO's appear to be more than simple camera artifacts or dust particles on the lens. 

In the next video, Jean Ward examines the mysterious entity and UFO's in greater detail.

  

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Scientists discover a never–before–seen astronomical object that's a mashup of a black hole and a huge star – and it could explain the mysterious red dots in deep–space images

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By WILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

A never-before-seen astronomical object has been discovered in the very early universe – and scientists believe it's a mashup of a black hole and a huge star.

Researchers were using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to hunt for the earliest galaxies when they spotted an impossibly bright and incredibly red object.

It looked like a vast star, stretching out to cover an area as large as our entire solar system.

However, scientists were shocked to see that this bizarre dot was somehow pumping out 100 billion times more energy than any star can physically produce.

Lead author Dr Rohan Naidu, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Hawai'i, says: 'That means you can't be powering this by nuclear fusion, which is the energy source that sits at the heart of all the stars we have.'

In a new paper, published in the journal Nature, Dr Naidu argues this must be an entirely new form of astronomical object known as a 'black hole star'.

The black hole star, dubbed MoM–BH*–1, is an enormous cloud of gas powered, not by fusion, but by the terrible forces of a central black hole.

The researchers estimate that this black hole has a mass 100,000 times greater than our sun and creates so much energy that it shines through its dense gas cocoon.

Scientists have discovered a never–before–seen object in the early universe that is a mashup of a black hole and a star (artist's impression) 

Dr Naidu and his colleagues didn't set out to find a black hole star, but were trying to investigate the very bright galaxies that appear extremely early in the universe's history.

But, while conducting their 'Miracle or Mirage' survey, the researchers spotted a dot that was different to anything they had seen before.

Just as smoke from a wildfire can make the sky over nearby cities turn crimson, clouds of dust in the universe often give sources of light a distinctive red tinge.

However, this red dot's other characteristics didn't match up with what scientists have come to expect from a drifting cloud of gas and dust.

Dr Naidu says: 'The way its light is almost entirely red and abruptly disappears below a certain wavelength is so dramatic that there is no comparison among any prior set of objects.'

That drop-off in light, known as a Balmer Break, is usually associated with dense gases soaking up photons in the atmospheres of stars that are a few hundred million years old.

This phenomenon isn't rare, and scientists can even see it in the light coming from Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky.

However, the Balmer Break coming from this red dot was the deepest scientists had ever seen, ruling out 'ordinary' stars as a potential source.

This 'black hole star' is a solar–system–sized cloud of dense hydrogen that is powered, not by fusion like a normal star, but by an enormous black hole with a mass 100,000 times greater than our sun

Even stranger, the red dot's light didn't contain any signatures of metal that would normally be found in a star, and only contained hydrogen and helium.

'It is a very special thing to find an object with no comparison given the vast stores of data on billions of stars, galaxies, and black holes that we have in astronomical archival databases,' Dr Naidu says.

'But it made us wonder if we were seeing a new kind of "stellar atmosphere", but on a spectacular scale'.

The researchers ran various computer simulations to see what combinations of astronomical features would explain the dot's distinctive colouration and brightness.

But it was only when the team replaced the star with an active black hole cocooned in hydrogen that their simulations started to match what they were seeing in reality.

The simulation that was the closest match for MoM–BH*–1 was a vast black hole 100,000 times the mass of the sun surrounded by a cocoon of hydrogen so dense that it resembles the surface of a solar system-sized star.

'The rapidly feeding black hole at its centre is the source of its energy,' Dr Naidu explains.

'The energy may be transmitted in the form of radiation or winds or shocks that slam against the dense shrouds of gas enveloping the black hole.'

Scientists say this could explain the origins of the 'little red dots' that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted forming in the first few hundred years of the universe 

That would explain the extreme brightness, the light-blocking Balmer Break, and the lack of anything other than hydrogen and helium that the astronomers observed.

Critically, the researchers think that MoM–BH*–1 could be just one of hundreds of black hole stars that have been hiding in plain sight.

The JWST has spotted hundreds of 'little red dots' that appear in the first hundred million years of the early universe, but seem to have vanished by the present day.

Now, Dr Naidu and his co-authors believe that each and every one of these little red dots could be hiding a black hole star at their core.

'Black Hole Star may lie at the heart of every Little Red Dot,' says Dr Naidu.

'The redness of the little red dots is because their blue light is soaked up by the dense shrouds of gas blanketing the Black Hole Star.

'All the peculiarities and puzzles surrounding the Little Red Dots begin to make sense once you place black hole stars at their centres.'

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Extinct human remains found on seafloor fuel claims of real-life biblical giants

• READ MORE: I'm a Harvard physicist. I believed in evolution my whole life… until I found God and uncovered something science still can't explain
  

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The remains of an extinct human discovered on the seafloor off Taiwan have reignited theories about the giants described in the Bible.

Researchers identified the mysterious leg bones as belonging to Denisovans, an ancient human group that split from the Neanderthal lineage about 550,000 years ago.

The fossils, which include part of a thigh bone and a shin bone, were recovered from the Penghu Channel between Taiwan and mainland China.

An analysis of proteins preserved inside the bones linked both specimens to the Denisovan lineage, which once inhabited vast areas of eastern Asia.

Scientists estimated that the individual represented by the thigh bone stood around five feet 11 inches tall and weighed 183 pounds.

The individual represented by the shin bone may have reached approximately six feet three inches and weighed 201 pounds, making him substantially taller than the average man today, which is five feet, nine inches.

Their extraordinary dimensions led independent researcher Jimmy Corsetti to suggest that Denisovans may have inspired stories about the Nephilim, mysterious beings mentioned in the Bible and often interpreted as giants.

The fact that the fossils were retrieved from the seabed has also fueled his speculation connecting them to the biblical account of the Great Flood.

Researchers identified the mysterious leg bones as belonging to Denisovans, an ancient human group that split from the Neanderthal lineage about 550,000 years ago

However, the study presents no evidence linking Denisovans to the Nephilim or a global biblical flood, and its findings have not yet been peer reviewed.

Corsetti posted on X: ‘New discovery indicates that Denisovans were 8in TALLER than the average man today.

‘I’ve asked before, and I’ll ask again: Were Denisovans the “Nephilim Giants” described in the Bible?

‘Btw, the discovered bones were found on the SEAFLOOR! Gee, almost as if a Great Flood actually happened… (it did, regardless if these bones are of an unrelated timeframe).’

The Nephilim are mentioned twice in the Old Testament: first in Genesis 6:4, shortly before the account of the Great Flood, and again in Numbers 13:33.

They are described more extensively in Chapters 6 through 15 of the Book of the Watchers, the first section of the ancient religious work known as 1 Enoch.

The account says fallen angels called the Watchers took human wives, who gave birth to enormous and violent giants that brought chaos and bloodshed to Earth.

It says God ultimately condemned the Watchers and giants, sent a great flood to cleanse the world and declared that the dead giants’ spirits would remain on Earth as evil spirits.

The fossils, which include part of a thigh bone and a shin bone, were recovered from the Penghu Channel between Taiwan and mainland China

While Corsetti has connected the discovery to ancient religious accounts, the researchers focused instead on what the enormous bones reveal about the Denisovans’ previously unknown bodies.

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• I'm a Harvard physicist. I believed in evolution my whole life… until I found God and uncovered something science still can't explain 

The researchers, led by the University of Tokyo, said in the study: ‘Our findings demonstrate that the Denisovan population at the northern circle had larger body size than earlier Homo erectus as well as Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens in eastern Asia.

‘This challenges the generally held expectation that Pleistocene Homo followed Bergmann’s rule that anticipates latitudinal decline of body size, and suggests that the large Denisovan brain resulted from their large body size at least partly.’

Researchers could not determine the individuals’ sex from biological evidence, but the enormous size of the bones suggests they probably came from males.

The possible sizes of these individuals would have placed them among the largest known ancient humans from the Ice Age.

Because neither fossil was complete, the team reconstructed its original size by comparing it with similarly shaped leg bones from ancient and modern humans.

The thigh bone, known as Penghu 2, was estimated to have measured about 19.3 inches when complete. Penghu 3, the shin bone, was probably around 17 inches long and contained a bulge caused by a healed injury.

The Denisovans were an estimated eight to 12 inches taller and 44 to 66 pounds heavier than Homo erectus individuals that lived in northern China about 750,000 years ago

Their extraordinary dimensions led independent researcher Jimmy Corsetti to suggest that Denisovans may have inspired stories about the Nephilim, mysterious beings mentioned in the Bible and often interpreted as giants Above is a painting of David and Goliath, one of the smaller giants in the Bible

Previous Denisovan fossils had revealed that the population possessed large brains, powerful jaws and unusually large teeth. 

However, the scarcity of bones from below the skull had prevented scientists from confidently reconstructing their overall height and build.

The Penghu fossils now add enormous, heavily built bodies to that emerging portrait.

Their size also challenges Bergmann’s rule, which predicts that human populations living closer to the equator should generally be smaller than those in colder northern climates.

The researchers said the cold period during which the Penghu Denisovans lived cannot, by itself, explain their extraordinary proportions.

Chemical evidence from the shin bone suggests that the individual ate a meat-heavy diet, while other discoveries indicate Denisovans hunted animals ranging from mountain-dwelling goats and sheep to huge herbivores and carnivores.

The team proposed that large, powerful bodies may have helped Denisovans pursue prey using a different and potentially less sophisticated set of tools than early modern humans.

The thigh bone also possesses a thick, angular ridge along its rear that is more commonly associated with modern humans. In hunter-gatherers, this feature has been linked to extensive movement over land.

Researchers said it could indicate that the Taiwanese Denisovans led highly mobile lives similar to early modern humans.

Another possibility is that Denisovans acquired the feature by interbreeding with Homo sapiens, as genetic evidence shows the groups exchanged DNA in southern Asia.

However, the team stressed that more Denisovan fossils and genetic evidence will be required to explain the unusual trait and determine whether such large bodies were widespread across the population.

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Mysterious 'demon' creature discovered lurking beneath Alabama's 'Area 51'

• MORE: 'Wall demon' discovered on Jupiter's moon likely to harbor off-world life

ByCHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR

A new species has been discovered under a secretive military base known as Alabama's Area 51.

Researchers in Huntsville named it Demogorgonichthys arcanus, or 'demon cavefish,' and revealed that the creature has no eyes, no skin color, grows to just two inches in length and lives in one tiny pool in an underground cave below the US Army's Redstone Arsenal.

Matthew L. Niemiller, Niemiller Nature LLC

While the new lifeform is not from another world, this tiny, otherworldly species was discovered by a University of Alabama team exploring the space under a military facility linked to UFOs and classified research into missiles, rockets and space-related technology.

DNA tests showed the fish is related to other North American cavefish but appeared to diverge from other similar species about 11.6 million years ago.

It completely adapted to life underground, shedding its eyes and growing special sensory organs all over its body over millions of years of evolution.

The team said that the fish is so genetically unique compared to other known cavefish that they placed it in a new biological subgroup.

For example, the team found a gene normally used for eyesight that had been badly broken in the demon fish. Scientists expected to find this in the animals because they live in total darkness and no longer need sight.

However, the team was completely surprised to find this new creature had evolved side-by-side in the same pools with the Southern Cavefish, known as Typhlichthys subterraneus, taking a completely different evolutionary path despite living in the same place.

Scientists have discovered a new species underneath a base tied to UFO conspiracies in Huntsville, Alabama

The 'demon cavefish' (Demogorgonichthys arcanus) is similar in appearance to other cavefish scientists have found but is said to be genetically unique

Scientists revealed that while finding independent evolutionary paths among different cavefish species has happened before, uncovering a unique creature adapting in its own way in the exact same pool alongside other cavefish is very rare.

Dr Matthew Niemiller, associate professor of biological sciences, said in a press release: 'This is one of the last places we'd have bet on it.'

'Finding an entirely unknown, new genus of freshwater fish in eastern North America today is a little like finding a new kind of big cat. The group is so well known, we thought the big surprises were behind us. To have one turn up in a cave we've watched for three decades is a real reminder to stay curious. It was genuinely surprising.'

Only a handful of the demon fish were seen in the team's observations between 2019 and 2025, which were published in Scientific Reports.

The fish has only been found in this one small aquifer system, and it is believed to have a very small habitat underneath Redstone Arsenal.

Since the fish, which is less than two inches long, lives in such a tiny area of the cave and depends on groundwater to survive, Niemiller's team considers it highly vulnerable to pollution, changes in water flow, droughts and floods - making it critically imperiled and possibly a critically endangered species.

The fact that the cave is under Redstone Arsenal is believed to have given the fish some protection from extinction, since base restrictions have kept the public from building on the site and destroying the cave.

Although the base's cave is protected from the public, scientists found that the environment the fish were living in was still contaminated - apparently with residue from chemical weapons.

The fish was found in a cave under Redstone Arsenal, a US Army base that also houses US Space Command

Scientists found that the cave was contaminated with materials used in both conventional and chemical weapons

'Trace metals, including cadmium, chromium, and lead, have been detected at elevated concentrations in water samples from Bobcat Cave over the past two decades,' the team wrote in their study.

Niemiller's team said the most likely reason for the pollution was that Bobcat Cave sits under an old industrial part of Redstone Arsenal where the Army used to dispose of both regular and chemical explosives.

Some of those materials seem to have slowly leaked into the underground water that flows into the cave.

Cadmium, chromium and lead are all metals that can be harmful to living things even in small amounts. 

Lead has served as the main metal in most bullets and projectiles. Lead compounds have also been used in primers, the part that starts the explosion when the trigger is pulled.

Meanwhile, both chromium and cadmium have been used by the military as a protective plating that resists rust and corrosion.

Redstone Arsenal has been called the Area 51 of Alabama

Unproven claims have alleged that recovered UFOs were taken to Redstone Arsenal in 2026

The mysterious base opened in 1941 to support the US during World War II, and it now has a workforce of more than 45,000 military personnel, civilian employees and contractors.

According to a government fact sheet about Redstone: 'The installation is the birthplace of NASA and has grown to include more than 65 diverse and distinct organizations.'

However, the base's newest task - becoming the home for US Space Command - has revived decades-old UFO conspiracy theories tied to Redstone Arsenal.

In fact, just a month after US Space Command officially transferred its operations to Redstone, unproven allegations began spreading online claiming that non-human craft being held at Area 51 in Nevada were being moved to Alabama.

In 2020, Amy Eskridge, a researcher working on anti-gravity technology in Huntsville, claimed during an explosive interview that the source of UFO and alien disclosure would be Redstone Arsenal.

Eskridge, who died in 2022, said: 'Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama is the biggest f****** deal that you've never heard of.'

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UFOs Over Crete and Athens? Meteorologist Clears Up Night Sky Panic

Kostas Raptis 

Glowing sky spirals over Crete sparked alien rumors on August 11, but meteorologist Theodoros Kolydas confirms it was just a SpaceX rocket fuel dump.

No, Aliens Didn’t Choose Crete First. The Mystery Spiral Has a Much Simpler Explanation

• On the night of August 11, 2026, spectacular glowing spirals appeared in the skies over Crete and Athens, triggering a wave of UFO reports on social media.
• Meteorologist Theodoros Kolydas has confirmed the “alien invasion” was actually the exhaust trail of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
• The phenomenon is caused by rocket fuel expanding in the thin upper atmosphere and catching sunlight from above the Earth’s shadow (the “twilight effect”).

Late Tuesday night (August 11), phone screens across Crete and Athens lit up faster than the sky itself. Dozens of bewildered residents took to social media, uploading photos and videos of glowing, swirling white spirals hovering overhead. For a few frantic minutes, local comment sections were convinced that extraterrestrials had finally chosen the Aegean as their preferred summer holiday destination. The group chats in Crete and Athens were absolutely exploding. “Did you see that?” “Is it an invasion?” “Should I grab the shotgun or the raki?” And somewhere, in a Cretan field, a shepherd remained unfazed, probably just wondering, “Wait… whose goats are those?”

Social media was flooded with photos and videos of a bizarre, glowing, spiral-shaped object twisting through the night sky. It was majestic, eerie, and looked exactly like the opening scene of a low-budget sci-fi movie. People were ready to believe. After all, if aliens were going to visit Greece, they’d probably stop for a frappé and some dakos first, right?

The Buzzkill from the Meteorologist

Enter Theodoros Kolydas, the meteorologist who apparently has no sense of drama. He stepped in to crush everyone’s extraterrestrial dreams with a cold, hard dose of physics.

“It’s not a UFO,” he essentially told the entire population of Crete. “It’s a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.”

People witnessed a single, bright cloud gliding through an otherwise entirely clear, dusk-filled sky. Public Domain

Yes, that’s right. The mysterious, glowing alien spiral was just the exhaust fumes from a rocket stage dumping fuel hundreds of kilometers up in the sky. The “aliens” were actually just Elon Musk’s recycling program in action.

The Science That Ruined the Fun

For those who want to know why it looked like a glowing intergalactic snail, here is the explanation that Kolydas provided:

1. High altitude nonsense: The rocket was super high up, where the air is incredibly thin. When the upper stage of the rocket released gas and fuel leftovers, it didn’t behave like normal smoke. It expanded instantly into a massive, swirling cloud.
2. The spin: The rocket stage was spinning or changing orientation, which turned the exhaust trail into that perfect, creepy spiral shape.
3. The “Twilight Effect:” This is the coolest part. Even though it was pitch-black night down here on the ground (where we were all panicking), up at 200+ kilometers altitude, the sun was still shining. The exhaust cloud was floating in sunlight, reflecting it down to us like a glowing neon sign in the dark sky.

So, while we were standing in the dark looking up, the rocket fumes were essentially sunbathing in space. Therefore, no invasion, no mothership, and no little green tourists asking where to find Balos Beach. Just physics doing what physics has always done: creating moments that seem almost too extraordinary to be real.

The Great Contradiction

Kolydas pointed out a beautiful irony in the whole situation: We were standing in the middle of the night, convinced we were seeing something supernatural, when in reality, we were just watching sunlight hit rocket poop a few hundred kilometers above our heads.

It was a beautiful, glowing, spiral-shaped physics lesson.

As sunseekers along Saronida Beach near Athens looked up, they witnessed a single, bright cloud gliding through an otherwise entirely clear, dusk-filled sky. With no other cloud coverage in sight, photos and videos quickly flooded social media, sparking wild theories ranging from alien visits to secret atmospheric military tests. The sighting was also confirmed by people as far as Crete.

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