Scientists now believe it’s possible the first person to die after opening the tomb, Lord Carnarvon, succumbed to a more “scientific form” of the dreaded mummy curse. Rather than supernatural forces, research over the past couple of decades seems to suggest toxic pathogens living in the sealed tomb could have been to blame.

Except for slight anomalies in the temples and cheekbones, it is a virtually anatomically correct replica of a human skull.

“Then the thing shot up in the sky,” White said. The light went on to merge with other lights hovering in the sky. “It was two tubular neon