fact to remember: some of the disk shaped jellyfishes can in fact sense differences in light level and the cubozoans (box jellys) do actually posses lense eyes. or with other words: jean jacket IS a flying box jelly.
Then there also are the Farpoint Cnidaria, space jellyfish from the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint". Although technically not atmospheric beasts but cosmozoans (creatures living in the vacuum of space), they're still capable of entering atmospheres of planets (one of the two in this episode was trapped there) and a beta canon novel "Orion's Hounds" described that they reproduce in planetary atmospheres and that juveniles ascend into space later in their development. They also had shapeshifting abilities, which allowed them to take on an armored form, resembling classical, saucer shaped UFOs. Jean Jacket mit have been at least partially inspired by this, as well as those cryptid legends. Then again, Jean Jacket also had this "stationary" camouflage cloud that SCP creature had. Seems like many inspirations came together to culminate in its form.
There is a lot of types of bacteria and other microorganisms discovered in the atmosphere in recent years so atmospheric jellyfish would have something to eat, filter feeding just like some ocean jellyfish and whales.
Biologically speaking, it ISN'T impossible for there to be an as of yet undiscovered species that is specially designed, adapted and evolved to live in the Earth's atmosphere. There have been many theories about such organisms and even a good amount of speculative evolutionary works/concepts.
Most likely works for microbial life though. Larger lifeforms would have to be living blimps or balloons then. But then again, one might imagine that a living balloon might resemble a jellyfish in shape.
@Streifi Basically, yes. Some sightings of UFOs might be new species that exclusively live in the stratosphere. We don't have the proof, but on a biological level, it isn't impossible.
@@Streifi It'll be like how we imagine life forms to be on gas gaints But I don't get why these lifeforms have to be balloons I mean fish dont have their swim bladder outside their bodies .
@@JcoleMc Because fishes don't need to have large swim bladders to be able to float. But if you want to float in Earth's atmosphere, you'd need a huge volume to fly. Even if you don't utilize hot air or helium but hydrogen you'd still need a huge volume to lift of the ground. The more you weigh, the more lift you require, which would translate to a large volume of hollow space to be filled with a gas that would make you floaty. You don't need as much to be naturally buoyant in the ocean, but you need way more to float in the air. So a balloon shape would make sense, if you don't have wings to fly. At least in our atmosphere. You may require less on gas giants, or more, depending of the atmospheric composition and density.
The one source I've got that mentions sky beasts, or sky jellyfish, couldn't decide if they were an entirely energy/plasma-based life or if they were just simply cnidarian relatives that have a lighter than air gas bladder. It did note that some UFO accounts did have the object shape-shifting between jellyfish-like to a metallic disk when it needed to gain speed.
There is an account of two police officers seeing an injured jellyfish descending to the ground, then a bigger one came, grabbed it and floated off with it. So that could be said to be the predator.
One interesting incident I think is worth mentioning is the Portuguese angel hair incident from 1959. While tellers of the story usually focus on the things that fell from the sky, before this there was an observation of two strange jellyfish-like objects in the skies over Evora, Portugal. It's usually told in the context of UFOs though.
30 years ago we were in Yellowstone, camping overnight next to Lake Yellowstone. I vividly remember looking up at the moon, and seeing what most likely was a cloud formation, that had an uncanny resemblance to a truly massive jellyfish floating in the air over the lake with the moon behind it. Mantle and trailing tentacles. It terrified me at the time, though I'm still not sure why. Still gives me chills to remember it.
While we're on the subject of macroscopic life forms, I think that Rayquaza was inspired by rods, which are like another sky cryptid. And Jean Jacket from Nope is a fascinating example of trying to semi-realistically bring the whole atmospheric jellyfish to life. But what I think that most people don't realize is how much energy it would take to pull off the maneuvers that UFOs somehow pull off, and would likely tear themselves apart from the strain as gravity is like "hold on there, where the hell do you think you're going so fast, pal?!" Yes, there is likely space in the stratosphere for such life forms, and most aircraft don't fly that high, so the chances of seeing, let alone colliding with one is infinitesimal, but let's just say that such organisms would have a high evolutional and competitive wall. And they would definitely plop to the ground when they passed away, unless the things were immortal, and didn't have predators.
I absolutely love atmospheric cryptids, like the flying rods like ik they are just bugs being smooshed by the camera but the thought of flying creatures that only live in the sky is so cool
I had spoken with Erich and Giorgio via a video chat a few years ago in which we talked about atmospheric creature possibilities. Creatures that live in the troposphere and stratosphere, possibly feeding on aerial animals or possibly feeding on water from clouds, other atmospheric creatures (similar to plankton) and/or solar radiation.
People have mentioned Jean Jacket from Nope. Many people said it was an alien, but there actually was a scientific paper published by a biologist which treats the creature as a real species of our planet - an actual cryptid 'discovered' in the movie. They name it Occulonimbus edoequus and the paper is by Kelsi Rutledge. If you can find the paper, which is difficult with Google as it is right now, it is a pretty good illustration of how such an animal could exist.
I need a monster hunter monster inspired by these, hunting a giant jellyfish styled creature would be epic, I’d assume it would probably be a bit more intelligent to keep it engaging though since fighting a realistic jelly would be basic
@@samrothstein7346 from the images I’ve seen of it while that didn’t come to mind I can see it now that you mention it, fingers crossed it shows up in wilds, if I’m not mistaken it hasn’t returned since second gen so it could use the glow up
I've seen two different atmospheric animals. A jellyfish and a worm/dragon. Decades apart. The jellyfish was on a new years night. No drugs or alcohol. Nightowl, so wide awake. Even more so because of pea soup fog in the valleys and deer. Coming out of the fog, steep angle because of hill. Headlights hit what I thought was the 'balls' they put on electric lines so aircraft don't hit them. Didn't make sense since those are over the river, not the road. So ugliest balloon I've ever seen. if you look up deep sea jellies, it's that red so dark they're black. Except balloons don't pulsate. Weak at first, but then stronger and stronger until it was out of sight.
I've been fascinated with this theory for UFOs ever since I read Vincent Gaddis' "Mysterious Fires and Lights" which argues for the skybeasts as an explanation for some reports. Regarding the skeptical explanations proposed at the end, as a Dane I should point out that the Danish UFO photo seen at 2:13 was eventually found to be leftover steam vapours from a power plant.
Jellyfish living in the sky reminds me of a story I read as a teen. It was about a creature in the sky that at night would let down a long tentacle and duck the brains out of some unfortunate carriage driver driving home. It was very Lovecraftian in tone It might have been a story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was the one story that gave me a chill down my neck.
I have often wondered how life is in the deepest ocean, deep in the earth, on some mountains and in deserts, but other than temporary inhabitants like birds, bats and insects, there are no animals that live most of their lives in the air. Thinking about the man of war jellyfish with the float that helps it stay at the waters surface. If it developed some gas to float in air it might be an air denizen. But I haven't talked to anyone about the atmosphere being the ecosystem of life. I didn't think anyone would be interested. Might explain some UFOs. They might like hiding in clouds, too.
Our atmosphere isn't dense enough to swim in the sky unless the creature were filled like a balloon with lighter than air gasses but those gasses degrade and the balloon eventually falls to the ground. A balloon is also completely undefended from predators so the species would have gone extinct shortly after evolving. Any protection would weigh it back down forcing it to be inflated bigger and necesitating more armor to cover the increated surface area. Maybe there's a sweet spot where it's big enough to carry the amount of armor that covers it but to live that way it would need to be born without armor which brings back the problem that this thing would have been too easy to send extinct. They are in the upper atmosphere where most animals cannot go so maybe they have no natural predators but then they must be trully immortal because otherwise we'd see the ancient ones ocasionally dropping out of the sky from old age and that would lead to a preserved body for study proving their existence. I'm sure if I went on long enough I could string together a series of very unlikely assumptions that would allow the atmospheric jellyfish to exist on earth by the fact would remain even then that this planet is not the ideal ecosystem for such a creature. Maybe one day though we will have a town on a planet with whole pods of sky jellies that people can seasonally enjoy flying over the pressurised habitats inside which the air is less dense than on outside. It would be a lot like living under the sea.
Thank you for the video. Even though i dont believe in them, i find the idea or concept really fascinating, that a huge creature could just live in the sky without us noticing it.
There's a short story dealing with an atmospheric beasts called "The Horror of the Height" written 1913 by Arthur Conan Doyle the author of Sherlock Holmes.
I do want to do a vid on rods at one point. I managed to catch one in a recording ages ago when I was hanging out with some friends. Would probably be pretty short given how easy it is to explain but I still want to do it at some point.
I'm sadden this video was just played up for jokes and not speculation Atmospheric beasts is a question on why every single ecosystem niche has been occupied by organisim adapted to it but the sky / atmosphere is one huge ecological niche that is mostly empty so why is this the case ? A creature evolving to be ligther then air and float is incredibly easier then evolving separate limbs for wings so why hasn't this happened yet ?
Nothing's evolved separate limbs for wings. Birds, bats, pterosaurs, and flying non-avian dinosaurs all modified their arms to create wings, while bugs used scales or other limbs
@@sheeeenogoji7603 wings are fairly complex and evolving to become bouyant in air is way more pluasible and easier to achieve so why didn't it happen .
Another pop culture example is Jean Jacket from Nope, who does closely tie into the phenomenon of UFOs and even some other strange sky phenomena
Jean Jacket is living rent free in my brain right now!
fact to remember: some of the disk shaped jellyfishes can in fact sense differences in light level and the cubozoans (box jellys) do actually posses lense eyes. or with other words: jean jacket IS a flying box jelly.
Goes back even further. Try Dogora from 1964.
Then there also are the Farpoint Cnidaria, space jellyfish from the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint". Although technically not atmospheric beasts but cosmozoans (creatures living in the vacuum of space), they're still capable of entering atmospheres of planets (one of the two in this episode was trapped there) and a beta canon novel "Orion's Hounds" described that they reproduce in planetary atmospheres and that juveniles ascend into space later in their development. They also had shapeshifting abilities, which allowed them to take on an armored form, resembling classical, saucer shaped UFOs. Jean Jacket mit have been at least partially inspired by this, as well as those cryptid legends. Then again, Jean Jacket also had this "stationary" camouflage cloud that SCP creature had. Seems like many inspirations came together to culminate in its form.
Jean Jacket is a blatant rip-off of the SCP mentioned in this video.
There is a lot of types of bacteria and other microorganisms discovered in the atmosphere in recent years so atmospheric jellyfish would have something to eat, filter feeding just like some ocean jellyfish and whales.
Biologically speaking, it ISN'T impossible for there to be an as of yet undiscovered species that is specially designed, adapted and evolved to live in the Earth's atmosphere.
There have been many theories about such organisms and even a good amount of speculative evolutionary works/concepts.
Most likely works for microbial life though. Larger lifeforms would have to be living blimps or balloons then. But then again, one might imagine that a living balloon might resemble a jellyfish in shape.
@Streifi Basically, yes. Some sightings of UFOs might be new species that exclusively live in the stratosphere.
We don't have the proof, but on a biological level, it isn't impossible.
@@Streifi It'll be like how we imagine life forms to be on gas gaints
But I don't get why these lifeforms have to be balloons I mean fish dont have their swim bladder outside their bodies .
@@JcoleMc Because fishes don't need to have large swim bladders to be able to float. But if you want to float in Earth's atmosphere, you'd need a huge volume to fly. Even if you don't utilize hot air or helium but hydrogen you'd still need a huge volume to lift of the ground. The more you weigh, the more lift you require, which would translate to a large volume of hollow space to be filled with a gas that would make you floaty. You don't need as much to be naturally buoyant in the ocean, but you need way more to float in the air. So a balloon shape would make sense, if you don't have wings to fly. At least in our atmosphere. You may require less on gas giants, or more, depending of the atmospheric composition and density.
The one source I've got that mentions sky beasts, or sky jellyfish, couldn't decide if they were an entirely energy/plasma-based life or if they were just simply cnidarian relatives that have a lighter than air gas bladder. It did note that some UFO accounts did have the object shape-shifting between jellyfish-like to a metallic disk when it needed to gain speed.
Jordan Peele's Nope movie has a pretty good take on the concept of this. Makes for a great movie
Pretty good rip-off of the SCP mentioned in this video.
They maybe misinterpreted phenomena , but the Manta rays are sure as hell not. Especially when you see one three feet from your face.
If there is atmospheric jellyfish, that implies that it must have a predator, right. Why not an atmospheric "sea" turtle?
There is an account of two police officers seeing an injured jellyfish descending to the ground, then a bigger one came, grabbed it and floated off with it. So that could be said to be the predator.
i need 5 flying sea turtles right NOW
Shell's too heavy
Jellyfish are predators and prey
Silly, don't you know that sea turtles only fly in space? With five elephants on the back of their shells?
One interesting incident I think is worth mentioning is the Portuguese angel hair incident from 1959. While tellers of the story usually focus on the things that fell from the sky, before this there was an observation of two strange jellyfish-like objects in the skies over Evora, Portugal. It's usually told in the context of UFOs though.
Lil water bill you’ve become one of my favorite channels to listen to while eating or anything else, thank you for for your content
30 years ago we were in Yellowstone, camping overnight next to Lake Yellowstone. I vividly remember looking up at the moon, and seeing what most likely was a cloud formation, that had an uncanny resemblance to a truly massive jellyfish floating in the air over the lake with the moon behind it. Mantle and trailing tentacles. It terrified me at the time, though I'm still not sure why. Still gives me chills to remember it.
The Nandi Bear could be a good cryptid to discuss
While we're on the subject of macroscopic life forms, I think that Rayquaza was inspired by rods, which are like another sky cryptid.
And Jean Jacket from Nope is a fascinating example of trying to semi-realistically bring the whole atmospheric jellyfish to life.
But what I think that most people don't realize is how much energy it would take to pull off the maneuvers that UFOs somehow pull off, and would likely tear themselves apart from the strain as gravity is like "hold on there, where the hell do you think you're going so fast, pal?!"
Yes, there is likely space in the stratosphere for such life forms, and most aircraft don't fly that high, so the chances of seeing, let alone colliding with one is infinitesimal, but let's just say that such organisms would have a high evolutional and competitive wall. And they would definitely plop to the ground when they passed away, unless the things were immortal, and didn't have predators.
I absolutely love atmospheric cryptids, like the flying rods like ik they are just bugs being smooshed by the camera but the thought of flying creatures that only live in the sky is so cool
3:21 GEN 7 REPRESENT, overhated man also been noticing the pokemon music in the background of multiple vids, respect o7
Based Gen 7 enjoyer
I had spoken with Erich and Giorgio via a video chat a few years ago in which we talked about atmospheric creature possibilities. Creatures that live in the troposphere and stratosphere, possibly feeding on aerial animals or possibly feeding on water from clouds, other atmospheric creatures (similar to plankton) and/or solar radiation.
Really glad to see this as it's a little explored subset of the UFO conversation. 👏👏👏
People have mentioned Jean Jacket from Nope. Many people said it was an alien, but there actually was a scientific paper published by a biologist which treats the creature as a real species of our planet - an actual cryptid 'discovered' in the movie.
They name it Occulonimbus edoequus and the paper is by Kelsi Rutledge. If you can find the paper, which is difficult with Google as it is right now, it is a pretty good illustration of how such an animal could exist.
I need a monster hunter monster inspired by these, hunting a giant jellyfish styled creature would be epic, I’d assume it would probably be a bit more intelligent to keep it engaging though since fighting a realistic jelly would be basic
There already is one in older gens, like Monster hunter freedom unite, called Yama Tsukami 🔥
@@samrothstein7346 from the images I’ve seen of it while that didn’t come to mind I can see it now that you mention it, fingers crossed it shows up in wilds, if I’m not mistaken it hasn’t returned since second gen so it could use the glow up
I've seen two different atmospheric animals. A jellyfish and a worm/dragon. Decades apart.
The jellyfish was on a new years night. No drugs or alcohol. Nightowl, so wide awake. Even more so because of pea soup fog in the valleys and deer. Coming out of the fog, steep angle because of hill. Headlights hit what I thought was the 'balls' they put on electric lines so aircraft don't hit them. Didn't make sense since those are over the river, not the road.
So ugliest balloon I've ever seen. if you look up deep sea jellies, it's that red so dark they're black. Except balloons don't pulsate. Weak at first, but then stronger and stronger until it was out of sight.
Bro saw Rayquaza and doesn't even think to catch it 💔
I do apologize my friend my fellows and countrymen, I just be yeeting jellies into the sky
I've been fascinated with this theory for UFOs ever since I read Vincent Gaddis' "Mysterious Fires and Lights" which argues for the skybeasts as an explanation for some reports. Regarding the skeptical explanations proposed at the end, as a Dane I should point out that the Danish UFO photo seen at 2:13 was eventually found to be leftover steam vapours from a power plant.
I like cryptids even if they're easy to explain. It's fascinating just what our brain comes up with when we don't know something.
Something something Dogora...
Lil water bill saving my Thursday!!!!!
I love you’re videos lucky enough to wake up right before you posted it 🔥🔥
I love sky beasts so much
Jellyfish living in the sky reminds me of a story I read as a teen. It was about a creature in the sky that at night would let down a long tentacle and duck the brains out of some unfortunate carriage driver driving home. It was very Lovecraftian in tone
It might have been a story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was the one story that gave me a chill down my neck.
I hoped to see a mention to the “NOPE” movie and Jean Jacket. It’s literally inspired in the atmospheric jellyfish hypothesis
Or better yet Dogora from 1964
I've read of this before. Seriously interesting. Remnants have even been discovered on the outside of the space station of all places.
The Secret Saturdays had an episode that featured atmospheric jellyfish, this was back when Cartoon Network was good
There are more sky cryptids besides the rod!? Time for research 👀
learning that there's more than the rod was a flashbang to me as well.
Spoiler alert: Jordan Peele film Nope deals with this subject!
I love sky jellies!
Sprite lightning is another possible cause for sky jellyfish sightings. It's an uncommon phenomenon, and very jellyfish looking.
I have often wondered how life is in the deepest ocean, deep in the earth, on some mountains and in deserts, but other than temporary inhabitants like birds, bats and insects, there are no animals that live most of their lives in the air. Thinking about the man of war jellyfish with the float that helps it stay at the waters surface. If it developed some gas to float in air it might be an air denizen. But I haven't talked to anyone about the atmosphere being the ecosystem of life. I didn't think anyone would be interested.
Might explain some UFOs. They might like hiding in clouds, too.
There's also Dogorah from the Godzilla (or Toho) franchise. As well as the Secret Saturdays.
Our atmosphere isn't dense enough to swim in the sky unless the creature were filled like a balloon with lighter than air gasses but those gasses degrade and the balloon eventually falls to the ground. A balloon is also completely undefended from predators so the species would have gone extinct shortly after evolving. Any protection would weigh it back down forcing it to be inflated bigger and necesitating more armor to cover the increated surface area. Maybe there's a sweet spot where it's big enough to carry the amount of armor that covers it but to live that way it would need to be born without armor which brings back the problem that this thing would have been too easy to send extinct. They are in the upper atmosphere where most animals cannot go so maybe they have no natural predators but then they must be trully immortal because otherwise we'd see the ancient ones ocasionally dropping out of the sky from old age and that would lead to a preserved body for study proving their existence. I'm sure if I went on long enough I could string together a series of very unlikely assumptions that would allow the atmospheric jellyfish to exist on earth by the fact would remain even then that this planet is not the ideal ecosystem for such a creature. Maybe one day though we will have a town on a planet with whole pods of sky jellies that people can seasonally enjoy flying over the pressurised habitats inside which the air is less dense than on outside. It would be a lot like living under the sea.
My mates girlfriend eats jellyfish and now I’m watching this 😂
Thank you for the video. Even though i dont believe in them, i find the idea or concept really fascinating, that a huge creature could just live in the sky without us noticing it.
There's a short story dealing with an atmospheric beasts called "The Horror of the Height" written 1913 by Arthur Conan Doyle the author of Sherlock Holmes.
Hey where did you get the information regarding the military and government sightings and investigations?
YOU SHOULD CHECK INTO GIANT FEATHERED RATTLESNAKE THAT ATTRACTS ITS PREY WITH PHEROMONES
Buncha these in the concept art for Avatar 3, too.
Bruv Nihlego is a rock and poison type pokemon. Ol gal ain't flying nowhere.
Look up Balloon Spiders folks.
Yo, are you The Exploring Series?
It reminds me the JEAN JACKET from Movie NOPE………….
Is that not Sky that you're breathing?
Charles Fort had tales of Sky Beasts in his early books, long before the rockets or airplanes were valid explanations. Just saying, they're not new.
Loveland Frog
the frog dude has been on my mind as of late...
Sharknado … hellooo
On April 1st you should do a vid on the flying rods from the mid 2000s
Why though?
I do want to do a vid on rods at one point. I managed to catch one in a recording ages ago when I was hanging out with some friends. Would probably be pretty short given how easy it is to explain but I still want to do it at some point.
I'm sadden this video was just played up for jokes and not speculation
Atmospheric beasts is a question on why every single ecosystem niche has been occupied by organisim adapted to it but the sky / atmosphere is one huge ecological niche that is mostly empty so why is this the case ?
A creature evolving to be ligther then air and float is incredibly easier then evolving separate limbs for wings so why hasn't this happened yet ?
Nothing's evolved separate limbs for wings. Birds, bats, pterosaurs, and flying non-avian dinosaurs all modified their arms to create wings, while bugs used scales or other limbs
@sheeeenogoji7603 ☝️ 🤓
@@JcoleMc
- Asks a question
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@@sheeeenogoji7603 wings are fairly complex and evolving to become bouyant in air is way more pluasible and easier to achieve so why didn't it happen .
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The first time I heard about Atmosphere jellyfish was on /x/ stories on TH-cam. It a pretty cool concept.