Star Jelly

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Star Jelly is a substance that is said to fall during a meteor shower, and like the Angel Hair phenomenon it is said to evaporate not long after it has fallen. It is also known as star slough, star shot, star spawn and Powdre Ser (meaning rot of the stars in welsh). Star Jelly is described as being gelatinous blobs, usually whitish, translucent and foul smelling.

1 Historical Documentation
2 Documented Cases
3 External Links
4 Related Discusion Threads

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Historical Documentation

Star Jelly has been documented for centuries. There are those that believe that the Star Jelly phenomenon is related to UFO’s and some believe that the jelly star matter are not alien constructs, but actual living beings referred to as Atmospheric Beasts, and that the Star Jelly is their remains once they fall to earth. Skeptics of this idea have a different theory. They believe that the Star Jelly is a naturally occurring phenomenon such as slime molds, Nostoc or lichen. There have been several suggestions as to what Star Jelly could be that is not space related. Here are a few of the suggestions that have been made by various skeptics of the UFO and meteorite theories:

Myxomycete slime moulds are the largest most colorful of the ‘blob’ makers. Some, like Fuligo can be yellow, or even reddish. Some species of Physarium slimes can have brilliant yellow plasmodia. Other physaria are pale blue, like the classic ‘star jelly’ of legend.
Nostoc, a cyanobacterium, can form pale green jelly masses near the roots of grass. Conditions must be very moist for these bacterial blobs to form in open air.
Tremella concrescens is a Jelly Fungus that often forms in the axes of grass tufts. It forms irregular pale translucent globs, just as star jelly does.
Female frogs excrete a gelatinous substance that they use to encase their eggs. This is the frog-jelly which surrounds frog's eggs. This jelly swells-up greatly in volume by absorbing water. If a heron, or other bird, swallows a gravid frog, it must vomit up this frog-jelly. The jelly must be expelled, otherwise it would overflow the bird’s stomach! This vomit is clear gelatine, it seldom contains frog's eggs or other items.

Space blobs

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Documented Cases

Here are lists of select various cases that have reported the Star Jelly phenomenon,

On the evening of October 8, 1844 two men were walking in a field near Coblentz, Germany, when they observed something-luminous fall to the ground. It was too dark to see the object, so the men marked the spot and came back by daylight to look at it. What they found was a mass of gray jelly that quivered when they poked it with a stick. This report is a classic case of Pwdre Ser that is also known as "star jelly." This phenomenon has been reported many times through the years, but never fully explained.

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