Skeptoid #299: Star Jelly

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2012

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jellylike blobs have been reported to fall from the sky during meteor showers. Aliens? No, science.

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0:00.0	You may have heard that sometimes airlines will drop their waste tanks on us.
0:08.7	And well, if you have not to worry, that's just an urban legend.
0:13.3	But it seems to be about the most reasonable explanation for what people have come to call
0:17.6	Star Jelly.
0:19.6	Strange gelatinous blobs found on the ground that don't seem to have any other place
0:24.0	they could have come from.
0:25.8	Except the sky.
0:28.4	Star Jelly is coming up right now on Skeptoid.
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