A golden orb egg ? Mysterious shiny orb seen on seafloor off Alaska stumps ocean explorers

The mystery golden orb was discovered by NOAA Ocean Exploration team 2 miles below the surface off the coast of Alaska much to the puzzlement of the team who discovered it.

This golden “egg” was seen by a team of NOAA-backed researchers off the southern coast of Alaska. Experts aren’t sure what it is.

There, at a depth of about 2 miles, sat a shiny golden orb — with a perplexing hole in it.

“Something tried to get in ... or to get out,” one researcher observed in a live feed.

In the debate that followed, the team made funny references to everything from the X-Files to classic monster movies. It was ultimately decided a sample of the orb was needed to examine its DNA.

Answers on a postcard to .....

a reply to: gortex

Amazing. It definitely looks organic, but that colour... so shiny.

I'm going with The Golden Goose Retirement Fund.

a reply to: gortex

Probably dropped by one of those " UFO's " that where being chased and shot down over Alaska back in February.

Hey, let's check out what this egg with a hole in it is!

I'm going with a hatched baby Godzilla. Obviously.

Looked more like a cocoon to me?

Maybe we DON"T want to know what came out of it?

originally posted by: chiefsmom
Looked more like a cocoon to me?

Maybe we DON"T want to know what came out of it?

Maybe just an innocent and harmless golden baby Buddha.

a reply to: gortex

Wow, at first i thought maybe a couple of baby angler fish or something like that...

But then around the 2:45+ mark, the "thing" beckons the ROV closer with its hand!!! Fingers, Knuckles, wow...


Edited to add:

OH OH...

It was ultimately decided a sample of the orb was needed to examine its DNA.

Maybe it shouldn't have beckoned the ROV....

Interesting .....maybe some sort of cocoon??

a reply to: Encia22

LOL, Doubt we would get that lucky.
I've watched too many horror movies.


Can't wait to hear the results though. Very interesting.

a reply to: gortex

Updates here:

www.dailystar.co.uk...

My first impression was of a giant pimple that would make an audible noise when popped and release tons of particulate matter sprayed in random directions...

Sharks have some pretty strange looking eggs, not an octopus or squid, to big for a seahorse,

a reply to: gortex

Just some new species then if they don't know? Don't 'experts' discover new species every year still?

Some sort of shark I imagine.

Yeah something came out of that

Cough' Cough' Alien....

a reply to: gortex

Must have been a big goose!!



Glad that the dude from Harvard didn't find it first and claim it as interstellar probe or something! Wonder if there is such things as "gold meteors"? Might be. Might explain why it is a bubble and the hole in the side (the interior melted at a different rate than the expanding gold from the gas the whole thing was creating when slamming through the atmosphere).

But I like the idea of it being "organic"!

Alaska, keeping the world strange!

S+F

originally posted by: Mahogany
Hey, let's check out what this egg with a hole in it is!

So far this is the most believable.

Watch it turn out to just be an old candy bar wrapper.

Watch it turn out to just be an old candy bar wrapper.