Jellyfish That Looks Like UFO Spotted By Underwater Rover
It’s an underwater fishy object.
David Moye— Reporter, The Huffington Post
It’s a UFO ― an underwater fishy object.
A jellyfish that looks amazingly like a flying saucer was recently filmed by a team of marine biologists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
This “UFO” isn’t really unidentified. Its scientific name is rhopalonematid trachymedusa, a type of deep-sea jellyfish. It was filmed last week by scientists aboard the Okeanos Explorer, a NOAA ocean research ship now exploring the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa.
Watching the jellyfish move around the deep ocean can be a hypnotic experience.
The sanctuary covers 13,581 square miles of nearshore coral reef and offshore open ocean across the Samoan archipelago in the South Pacific. The mission continues through April.
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