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Topics: Aliens, Baba Vanga, UFO
William Morgan
With just days to go until the start 2026, you would be forgiven for thinking that 2025 has shown us all it has to offer.
Over the past 365 or so days we have lived through the outbreak of war, the election of the first American pope, and the start of Donald Trump's second term in office - but an infamous psychic has predicted one major event is still to come before the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve.
The blind Bulgarian psychic and clairvoyant who reportedly predicted 9/11, Obama's electoral victory and a number of natural disasters, Baba Vanga, had already predicted a 'double fire that will rise from heaven and earth simultaneously' in 2025.
And this even came true, inevitably, but closer to home than many realised through the vast raging wildfires that destroyed entire neighborhoods in Southern California at the start of the year. But one of her big 2025 prophecies is yet to take place and she has just days to be proven right.
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The dead seer Baba Vanga allegedly foretold a 'new light in the sky' over a major event, which many have taken to mean a UFO or some form of first-contact with alien life.
At the start of December, many followers of the prophet's predictions thought that the Fifa World Cup draw could be the event spoken of as billions of viewers tuned in to see which groups their country would compete in.
However, with no 'take me to your leader' moment taking place during the soccer draw, except perhaps the awarding of the first-ever 'Fifa Peace Prize' to President Trump, people expecting extra-terrestrial intelligence were left disappointed.
While many have taken the prophecy to mean a large sporting event, there is no reason it could not be some other massive date in the calendar - like the New Year's Eve celebrations that are televised around the world.
The other event that could fulfil the mystic's prediction is the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations soccer event, which is watched by around two billion people. But with just days to go, no little green people have been seen in the skies over the competition.
Whether we will spot alien spacecraft dodging New Year fireworks or getting a pitch-side seat to watch African soccer is something only Baba Vanga could predict. Or not, as she never wrote anything down and much of her later predictions come to us through her niece, Krasimira Stoyanova, or others who witnessed her visions.
Indeed, we may have already spotted the light supposedly detailed in her prophecy, with the mysterious 3I/ATLAS interstellar object passing through our solar system and close to Earth.
While some have claimed this object could be an alien's flying saucer, a major astronomer has recently published a theory that would argue this is unlikely.
Not because aliens don't exist, but because if they do, the first thing we are likely to learn about them is how they died.
Called the Eschatian hypothesis, Columbia University researcher Dr David Kipping has said that scientists' first experience of most phenomena in space is of its 'loudest' variable.
So, perhaps, the light predicted by Baba Vanga will not be our first contact with an alien life form, but the by-product of its doom.