Nerida Wilson couldn't take her eyes off the computer screen. Some 2,000 feet beneath the research boat she was aboard, a creature drifted past in the shape of a vast, galactic swirl. By her team's estimates, it was 150 feet long.
"It looked like an incredible U.F.O.," said Dr. Wilson, a senior research scientist at the Western Australian Museum.
Each siphonophore is a colony of individual zooids, clusters of cells that clone themselves thousands of times to produce an extended, stringlike body. While some of her colleagues compared the siphonophore to silly string , Dr. Wilson said the organism is much more organized than that.
While you're here, how about this:
Watch This Giant, Eerie, String-Like Sea Creature Hunt for Food in the Indian Ocean | Smart
In a video posted on Twitter by the Schmidt Ocean Institute Monday, a thin, silvery something floats in the open ocean in a strange spiral formation. Perhaps, it’s reminiscent of a swirling artistic masterpiece , or a giant, floating piece of silly string —but it’s actually an organism.
As Tessa Koumoundouros reports for Science Alert , researchers recently captured this footage of a giant Apolemia siphonophore off the coast of West Australia. With an estimated 49-foot-wide diameter, the researchers suspect that this gelatinous string might be the largest specimen of its kind ever recorded, the Institute states in an Instagram post .
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The video was filmed in 2004 and investigated as part of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. It's not clear if the object was ever identified.
This may worth something:
Annual report shows UFO sightings in Flanders and Long Valley, and elsewhere | Mount Olive
MOUNT OLIVE TWP. – The "flying disc" was spotted around 4 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24, passing over the trees in Flanders.
Then there was a "loud humming sound" heard over a Long Valley home around 5:30 a.m., Saturday, June 22.
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The two incidents were among 183 claimed sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in New Jersey in 2019, according to the year-end report of the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), based in Davenport, Wash.
Aliens Exist? UFO spotted lingering around International Space Station in NASA feed
"It looks to be in lower orbit as the space station passes it in upper orbit. Awesome catch, very rare, but absolutely real."
He goes on to speculate that with the pandemic "spreading like a wildfire out of control, its possible that aliens know what going to happen and they decided abandon the Earth. The virus may be very dangerous to aliens too. If this is true, expect to see a big rise in UFO sightings as they appear from underground bases and leave Earth's atmosphere."
Alien shock claim: UFO hunter says he has spotted 'god-like' beings near the Sun |
While he does not, or cannot, explain how these objects survive in space, void of oxygen, he believes they could be God-like.
He said on his blog ET Database: "The object is huge, looks planet size, but I believe to be about 1.5km across and very close to the satellite [which is observing the Sun] and moves in jumps from place to place, often at or around the speed of light, sometimes leaving trails seen on camera.
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"But here, one stopped, rested a bit, move a bit closer to the sun resting again, then jumped away.
Alien hunters claim to spot UFO outside ISS and 'NASA is trying to cover it up' | Weird
The sighting was first made by conspiracy theorists Secure Team 10 before being picked up by prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring.
Mr Waring addes NASA may have missed the supposed UFO sighting as many employees will be at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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"The metallic glint is unmistakable. It looks to be in lower orbit as the space station passes it in upper orbit. Awesome catch, very rare, but absolutely real.
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