The Fascinating Case of Atmospheric Jellyfish

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  • @squidpizza6320
    @squidpizza6320 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +49

    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

    • @assemblyrequired7342
      @assemblyrequired7342 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      Jean Jacket is living rent free in my brain right now!

    • @Irobert1115HD
      @Irobert1115HD 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      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.

    • @jaredthehawk3870
      @jaredthehawk3870 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Goes back even further. Try Dogora from 1964.

    • @Streifi
      @Streifi 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      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.

    • @26th_Primarch
      @26th_Primarch 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Jean Jacket is a blatant rip-off of the SCP mentioned in this video.

  • @verdakorako4599
    @verdakorako4599 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    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.

  • @kaijuar2003
    @kaijuar2003 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

    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.

    • @Streifi
      @Streifi 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      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.

    • @kaijuar2003
      @kaijuar2003 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @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.

    • @JcoleMc
      @JcoleMc 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@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 .

    • @Streifi
      @Streifi 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@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.

    • @1TakoyakiStore
      @1TakoyakiStore 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @wrath908
    @wrath908 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    Jordan Peele's Nope movie has a pretty good take on the concept of this. Makes for a great movie

    • @26th_Primarch
      @26th_Primarch 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Pretty good rip-off of the SCP mentioned in this video.

  • @mugwugthemagnificful
    @mugwugthemagnificful 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    They maybe misinterpreted phenomena , but the Manta rays are sure as hell not. Especially when you see one three feet from your face.

  • @deathsyth8888
    @deathsyth8888 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +32

    If there is atmospheric jellyfish, that implies that it must have a predator, right. Why not an atmospheric "sea" turtle?

    • @Xiol02
      @Xiol02 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      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.

    • @lilwaterbill6244
      @lilwaterbill6244  12 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      i need 5 flying sea turtles right NOW

    • @MurdersaurusFlex
      @MurdersaurusFlex 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Shell's too heavy

    • @ZathrasParadox
      @ZathrasParadox 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Jellyfish are predators and prey

    • @tau-5794
      @tau-5794 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Silly, don't you know that sea turtles only fly in space? With five elephants on the back of their shells?

  • @milokonna
    @milokonna 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    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.

  • @manuelserrano4697
    @manuelserrano4697 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    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

  • @MrKoobuh
    @MrKoobuh 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    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.

  • @mdserpents5796
    @mdserpents5796 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    The Nandi Bear could be a good cryptid to discuss

  • @assemblyrequired7342
    @assemblyrequired7342 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    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.

  • @Pastajelly1388
    @Pastajelly1388 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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

  • @NEET_201
    @NEET_201 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    3:21 GEN 7 REPRESENT, overhated man also been noticing the pokemon music in the background of multiple vids, respect o7

    • @octopusoup
      @octopusoup 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Based Gen 7 enjoyer

  • @ZathrasParadox
    @ZathrasParadox 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    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.

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Really glad to see this as it's a little explored subset of the UFO conversation. 👏👏👏

  • @Arachobia
    @Arachobia 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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.

  • @hexbug101
    @hexbug101 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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
      @samrothstein7346 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There already is one in older gens, like Monster hunter freedom unite, called Yama Tsukami 🔥

    • @hexbug101
      @hexbug101 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@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

  • @eternalgravity
    @eternalgravity 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    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.

    • @BlueRGuy
      @BlueRGuy 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Bro saw Rayquaza and doesn't even think to catch it 💔

  • @jeremiahswinson2258
    @jeremiahswinson2258 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I do apologize my friend my fellows and countrymen, I just be yeeting jellies into the sky

  • @Tsotha
    @Tsotha 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @UltimatBlitz
    @UltimatBlitz 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @jaredthehawk3870
    @jaredthehawk3870 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Something something Dogora...

  • @34mileproductionsAK
    @34mileproductionsAK 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Lil water bill saving my Thursday!!!!!

  • @owendavis7609
    @owendavis7609 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love you’re videos lucky enough to wake up right before you posted it 🔥🔥

  • @orbitaloutcast9878
    @orbitaloutcast9878 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love sky beasts so much

  • @susanfarley1332
    @susanfarley1332 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @nicoelmito
    @nicoelmito 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I hoped to see a mention to the “NOPE” movie and Jean Jacket. It’s literally inspired in the atmospheric jellyfish hypothesis

    • @jaredthehawk3870
      @jaredthehawk3870 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Or better yet Dogora from 1964

  • @Rob-ik7jy
    @Rob-ik7jy 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've read of this before. Seriously interesting. Remnants have even been discovered on the outside of the space station of all places.

  • @kevinpoe8137
    @kevinpoe8137 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Secret Saturdays had an episode that featured atmospheric jellyfish, this was back when Cartoon Network was good

  • @blakerenimu9033
    @blakerenimu9033 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    There are more sky cryptids besides the rod!? Time for research 👀

    • @lilwaterbill6244
      @lilwaterbill6244  12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      learning that there's more than the rod was a flashbang to me as well.

  • @MechanizedTyranny
    @MechanizedTyranny 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Spoiler alert: Jordan Peele film Nope deals with this subject!

  • @DecoderWalrus
    @DecoderWalrus 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love sky jellies!

  • @Sabatuar
    @Sabatuar 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sprite lightning is another possible cause for sky jellyfish sightings. It's an uncommon phenomenon, and very jellyfish looking.

  • @susanfarley1332
    @susanfarley1332 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @SalTah-q5l
    @SalTah-q5l 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There's also Dogorah from the Godzilla (or Toho) franchise. As well as the Secret Saturdays.

  • @lexibyday9504
    @lexibyday9504 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @samuellatu3123
    @samuellatu3123 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My mates girlfriend eats jellyfish and now I’m watching this 😂

  • @Xiol02
    @Xiol02 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @chickenmacaroni4391
    @chickenmacaroni4391 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @LostArchivist
    @LostArchivist 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hey where did you get the information regarding the military and government sightings and investigations?

  • @JuaneDosesII-wj6dd
    @JuaneDosesII-wj6dd 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    YOU SHOULD CHECK INTO GIANT FEATHERED RATTLESNAKE THAT ATTRACTS ITS PREY WITH PHEROMONES

  • @laurachapple6795
    @laurachapple6795 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Buncha these in the concept art for Avatar 3, too.

  • @iksarguards
    @iksarguards 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bruv Nihlego is a rock and poison type pokemon. Ol gal ain't flying nowhere.

  • @brianbmk1720
    @brianbmk1720 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Look up Balloon Spiders folks.

  • @RGBaker
    @RGBaker 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yo, are you The Exploring Series?

  • @이동연-c6d
    @이동연-c6d 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It reminds me the JEAN JACKET from Movie NOPE………….

  • @karlslicher8520
    @karlslicher8520 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Is that not Sky that you're breathing?

  • @arthur52353
    @arthur52353 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @KugelBlitz0
    @KugelBlitz0 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Loveland Frog

    • @lilwaterbill6244
      @lilwaterbill6244  10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      the frog dude has been on my mind as of late...

  • @JuaneDosesII-wj6dd
    @JuaneDosesII-wj6dd 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sharknado … hellooo

  • @austinlee4156
    @austinlee4156 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    On April 1st you should do a vid on the flying rods from the mid 2000s

    • @Blin240
      @Blin240 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Why though?

    • @lilwaterbill6244
      @lilwaterbill6244  12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @JcoleMc
    @JcoleMc 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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 ?

    • @sheeeenogoji7603
      @sheeeenogoji7603 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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

    • @JcoleMc
      @JcoleMc 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @sheeeenogoji7603 ☝️ 🤓

    • @sheeeenogoji7603
      @sheeeenogoji7603 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@JcoleMc
      - Asks a question
      - Gets an answer
      - Gets offended

    • @JcoleMc
      @JcoleMc 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@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 .

  • @UserRedZero
    @UserRedZero 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ☁️ 🪼 ☁️

  • @ivarironside6904
    @ivarironside6904 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The first time I heard about Atmosphere jellyfish was on /x/ stories on TH-cam. It a pretty cool concept.