The British X-Files: Natural History Museum sets up unit to investigate bizarre phenomenon - but is baffled by Somerset's mysterious 'space slime'
A unit of museum experts tasked with investigating unexplained phenomenon have been left baffled by a mysterious substance, dubbed ‘space slime’. Carrying out work which would leave even The X-Files’s Fox Mulder and Dana Scully stumped, the team at the Natural History Museum have been tasked with identifying a host of bizarre items discovered by the British public.
Among the finds examined by the museum’s Identification and Advisory Service was a mysterious slime discovered in a peaceful nature reserve in Somerset.
The strange gloop, found at the Ham Wall nature reserve, mysteriously appeared around the same time as a meteor crashed to earth in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and an amateur photographer claimed he had captured a mysterious object whizzing through the sky above the park on camera.
The object appeared to be a meteor, although this was not confirmed by astronomers.
Nature buffs claimed the slime was merely frogspawn, while others said it was ‘star jelly’, a strange substance said to appear when meteors fall to earth, which has continued to stump scientists.
The London-based museum’s Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity (AMC), which houses the Identification and Advisory Service, was tasked with investigating the mysterious slime, with the aim of establishing whether it had fallen from space, or if its origins were rather more terrestrial.
Laboratory tests have so far failed to find just what it could be – and where it had come from.
The unit’s Identification and Advisory Service will be responsible for investigating a wide-range of unexplained phenomena, and so far they have been contending with so-called ‘space slime’, and a host of bizarre items discovered by the British public including bones resembling a dragon skull, round objects believed to be meteorite fragments, and a skull with long tusks believed to have belonged to the ice-age sabre tooth tiger.
The research team takes a scientific approach to all the submissions and so-far they have been able to solve many of the mysteries – the ‘dragon skull’ is the pelvis of a sea bird, the ‘sabre-tooth tiger’ is the skull of a Chinese Water Deer, and the meteorite fragment was in fact a solidified ball of aluminium foil.
However, one of the unexplained phenomena still has the team baffled – the mysterious slime discovered in a nature reserve in Somerset. The slime appeared at the same time as a meteor crashed to earth in Chelyabinsk, Russia, which has led many to believe that the strange substance has come from space.
An amateur photographer claimed he had captured a mysterious object whizzing through the sky above the park on camera. The object appeared to be a meteor, although this was not confirmed by astronomers.
The London museum’s Angela Marmont Centre (AMC) for UK Biodiversity, which houses the Identification and Advisory Service, was tasked with investigating the mysterious slime, with the aim of establishing whether it had fallen from space, or if its origins were rather more terrestrial. Laboratory tests have so far failed to find just what it could be – and where it had come from.
Scientists from the unit extracted DNA from the jelly and tried to match it against that of birds and frogs, without success. This rules out the theory that the slime is unfertilized frog spawn.
“The slime is still a genuine mystery,” said Chesca Rogers from the AMC. “There are stories in folklore that link it with meteor sightings. Some people think it might be unfertilised frog spawn, others think it is a fungus, or a slime mould or that it is plant related. None of the tests we have done so far have told us anything conclusive.”
Every year the museum receives around 10,000 inquiries from the public, who are encouraged to bring their finds to the Museum for examination.
By April Holloway
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The unit’s Identification and Advisory Service will be responsible for investigating a wide-range of unexplained phenomena, and so far they have been contending with so-called ‘space slime’, and a host of bizarre items discovered by the British public including bones resembling a dragon skull, round objects believed to be meteorite fragments, and a skull with long tusks believed to have belonged to the ice-age sabre tooth tiger.
The research team takes a scientific approach to all the submissions and so-far they have been able to solve many of the mysteries – the ‘dragon skull’ is the pelvis of a sea bird, the ‘sabre-tooth tiger’ is the skull of a Chinese Water Deer, and the meteorite fragment was in fact a solidified ball of aluminium foil.
However, one of the unexplained phenomena still has the team baffled – the mysterious slime discovered in a nature reserve in Somerset. The slime appeared at the same time as a meteor crashed to earth in Chelyabinsk, Russia, which has led many to believe that the strange substance has come from space.
An amateur photographer claimed he had captured a mysterious object whizzing through the sky above the park on camera. The object appeared to be a meteor, although this was not confirmed by astronomers.
The London museum’s Angela Marmont Centre (AMC) for UK Biodiversity, which houses the Identification and Advisory Service, was tasked with investigating the mysterious slime, with the aim of establishing whether it had fallen from space, or if its origins were rather more terrestrial. Laboratory tests have so far failed to find just what it could be – and where it had come from.
Scientists from the unit extracted DNA from the jelly and tried to match it against that of birds and frogs, without success. This rules out the theory that the slime is unfertilized frog spawn.
“The slime is still a genuine mystery,” said Chesca Rogers from the AMC. “There are stories in folklore that link it with meteor sightings. Some people think it might be unfertilised frog spawn, others think it is a fungus, or a slime mould or that it is plant related. None of the tests we have done so far have told us anything conclusive.”
Every year the museum receives around 10,000 inquiries from the public, who are encouraged to bring their finds to the Museum for examination.
By April Holloway
– See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-mysterious-phenomena/natural-history-museum-sets-unit-investigate-unexplained-phenomena-00954#sthash.IpAB1gRb.dpuf
Source: http://www.ascensionearth2012.org/2014/02/the-british-x-files-natural-history.html
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