What is Star Jelly?
Star jelly is a semi-mysterious gelatinous substance allegedly deposited on the ground during meteor showers. The phenomenon of star jelly has been observed since at least 1641, and probably much earlier. In Welsh, star jelly is known as pwdre sêr (“rot of the stars”). A long 1979 article in the paranormal Fate magazine asserted that star jelly has an extraterrestrial origin, and constitutes “cellular organic matter” which exists as “prestellar molecular clouds” traveling through space. Some paranormal enthusiasts have drawn a connection between star jelly and the idea of atmospheric beasts, calling the jelly the remains of these animals. Scientists are extremely skeptical, favoring a terrestrial origin for star jelly. The scientific explanation for star jelly is that stargazers witness a meteor shower, then run in the direction where they think they fell, only to find a pre-existing slime on the ground, be it slime mold, nostoc, or lichen. Nostoc, in particular, a fresh-water cyanobac
Star jelly is a semi-mysterious gelatinous substance allegedly deposited on the ground during meteor showers. The phenomenon of star jelly has been observed since at least 1641, and probably much earlier. In Welsh, star jelly is known as pwdre sêr (“rot of the stars”). A long 1979 article in the paranormal Fate magazine asserted that star jelly has an extraterrestrial origin, and constitutes “cellular organic matter” which exists as “prestellar molecular clouds” traveling through space. Some paranormal enthusiasts have drawn a connection between star jelly and the idea of atmospheric beasts, calling the jelly the remains of these animals. Scientists are extremely skeptical, favoring a terrestrial origin for star jelly. The scientific explanation for star jelly is that stargazers witness a meteor shower, then run in the direction where they think they fell, only to find a pre-existing slime on the ground, be it slime mold, nostoc, or lichen. Nostoc, in particular, a fresh-water cyanoba
Panspermia has many deviations and many forms, some of which are entirely pseudoscientific. There are some who would argue that pwdre ser, or rot from the stars in Welsh, is entirely a myth, a mere fabrication of a few individuals with access to some goo, guesses ranging from Jell-O to water diluted factory produced pollutants. However, pwdre ser is one of the many topics, which lacks public knowledge, and the individuals who report such claims have no commonalties or connections. In no way is the huge web of incidents linear it is entirely chaotic, just as would be expected with little known, but extraordinary, events. Some of the strangest things go unnoticed, and that is entirely the case with Pwdre Ser. Somewhere between the 8th and the 12th of December, 1983, much of the west end of North Reading in Massachusetts was bombarded with strange blobs of grayish-white and oily smelling blobs. The night began as Thomas Grinley looked over his driveway, and saw a 2-foot blob on his drivew
