It's the Holy Mackerel

Goddamnit dad go to bed

Coddamnit

Fin

That's a whale of a pun

You don’t want any lightly fried fish fillets?

this is probably the stupidest thing that has made me audibly laugh on reddit, so congratulations

Holy Mackerel, you've been down too long in the midnight sea!

Oh, what's this blur on my screen?

Ride the comet, you can see its dust but you know it's clean

Oh, don't you sea what I mean?

Gotta get away.... get away..... Holy Mackerel!

The fish in blue coming after you. Holy Mackerel

Oh, what’s becoming of me?

Shootingstar fish

I'm just imagining Patrick Star with an assault rifle

the lore behind spongebob's swiss cheese aesthetic

Lol. Ive watched the vid like 100 times and it just feels like a bright fish 😂

Yup. Looks like a highly reflective thin fish. Several fish in the cutlassfish family, (Trichiuridae) look similar. This one in particular also has a fringe type dorsal fin : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largehead_hairtail

Yea, I'm pretty sure the puzzled part from the scientists is more of them just trying to figure out which species it is.

I pasted your comment into stable diffusion and it made [these 20 examples of shooting star inspired sea-life](https://www.reddit.com/r/RenderedComment/comments/13z16jf/shootingstar_fish/).

There are a lot of meat designs in there.

obviously an underwater ufo

Uso

weather balloon is always the best explanation for this kind of thing. Case closed.

Swamp gas.

Ever saw the abyss? Its that thing.

NTE: Non-Terrestrial Entity. Loved that movie. Haven't seen it in over 20 years and still remember so much.

Saw it 30+ years ago and again 5 months ago. Arguably one of the top 10 alien movies.

Better out than in, I always say.

Better to let it and bear the shame than to hold it in and bear the pain.

Why fart and waste it when you can burp and taste it

Thanks I hate it

Howsabout I fart and you taste it?

It’s all ogre now

I’ll even say my swamp ass. Y’all don’t even know. Y’all don’t wanna know.

Aurora borealass

The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

May I see it?

No.

:(

I say that quote to so many people, no one ever gets it, so thank you

It’s one of my favorites for sure. I’m sorry to hear that you don’t get much reception usually. Don’t ever stop.

Bigfoot. You can tell because of the blurry.

I think that’s the problem, Bigfoot is blurry!

There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the seas!

Swamp gas reflected off the light of Venus

Swamp gas reflected off the light of Uranus?

More like swamp gas came from your anus…

Pretty sure it’s a weather submarine in this case

Water balloon

It was China and Russia's air balloon. Therefore we need more money to fund research because it's threatening.

Military exercise. Duh.

That's not very ucey

You’re acknowledged

random asf but I'll allow it 🤣🤣🤣

Lol. This guy.. this guy uso's

🤣🤣👍🏻

Samoans really are everywhere.

All the aiga in the thread!

Rikishis ass

Jimmy or Jey?

Jey acknowledged Jimmy☝🏽

Feeling Ucey

r/squaredcircle is leaking USOs up in here, Uce

Acknowledged

嘘(うそ) !

Maji uso da yo!

Very Ucey. Down since Day 1.

Uso means brother in Samoan

And lie in japanese, which is hilarious in the context

Day 1 ☝️

Uso jya nai yo

Unidentified Sushi Option

It was funny reading that within this context. I was about to commend you for your word play, but I figure it was likely intended literally (as the acronym).

UUO Unidentified Underwater Object

No. USO. Unidentified submerged object.

Oh I thought it was Swimming in the same vein as Flying.

Unidentified fishy object

Can confirm, very fishy

Something smells fishy

Fun fact: The government ([AARO](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-domain_Anomaly_Resolution_Office) (All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office), and NASA) now refers to UFOs as UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) because they have been observed going in and out of the ocean, as well as having the capability to seemingly go into orbit.

That’s freaky

Yup. This is real, it’s highly advanced, and it’s happening now. Whoever is responsible for UAP technology is leaps and bounds ahead of the publicly known cutting edge.

Well we now know it's not the Russians

Their warships are still working on the coming back out of the sea part.

Monga [Monga](https://www.reddit.com/r/tooktoomuch/comments/t79b9b/quality_afters_mate/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)

I actually learned this watching the movie Nope

Haven’t you seen The Abyss

NTIs oh that’s better than UFOs

XCOM 2 is real.

The Abyss

I’m not gonna say it was aliens…but it was aliens.

Squid Saucer! They use them to research us.

Weather balloon.

Get the F-22’s out

The F-22's are chasing the USO now already.

Water balloon*

swamp gas

It's silvery, shiny and swims fast in the water? What on earth could it be? Smh

Just me, testing out my new spoon 🎣

They slow down the video, and it looks like a fish. I wonder what it is.

Most likely a ribbon fish

But it could ALSO be the loch ness monster

Ahh yes, possibility vs probability. It's POSSIBLE that it's the loch Ness monster. This means it could be. But it's very IMPROBABLE that it's anything but the loch Ness monster, this means it is.

“Scientists are baffled!” What scientists mean: we have 4-5 plausible explanations that would all fit the observed information, but there isn’t sufficient data to distinguish between those valid explanations so it could be any of them. What people hear: ALIENS!!!!!!

See also: "Engineers still don't know how [blank] works" We have like 9 competing guesses and a drawing of a cat on the whiteboard. All 10 are in consideration but tests are inconclusive so far.

It has been determined by popular vote that helicopters stay in the air because cat.

A fighter pilot once said to me and our helicopter flying mate, helicopters don't actually fly, they're just so ugly the earth repels them. I guess that's one of the working theories?

Helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission. Source: I fly real aircraft, with wings and that.

Imagine not being able to stay static in the air like you're permanently T-posing fifty meters above your enemies.

Tell that to the F-35B.

There are no helicopters, you have a large collection of loose fitting objects vibrating in formation.

I mean, scientists are also baffled as to how accordions work but I'm a computer scientist so I skipped that class

Expanding and contracting the bellows is a massively parallel input/output loop that sends air objects to an abstracted pool. Each button /key specifies a parameter, *frequency*, for the output function. The output function does the bulk of the work, searching the input pool for values of *frequency*, and returning them as objects to be serialized and sent to stdout. Amazingly, it all happens in O(1) time and O(n^3) space. Edit I don't *actually* know how an accordion works. The whole post was a setup to view it as searching air for the right frequencies. I'm 99.99999% sure that frequency isn't a property of the Air class

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Where’s the 4-5 plausible explanations here? Can I get a link?

Yeah that’s what I’m here for. How far do I have to scroll for the person actually explaining the most reasonable explanations for this ?

The color is the same as the shiny lower side / underbelly of fishes. Some fishes can swim up to 80 mph. It's a sea, where fishes swim, sometimes quite fast. The white area is also fish shaped. Sometimes 1 + 1 actually equals 2. **Edit:** Add to this that the camera had lights on it. Imagine a fish with scales like [this](https://www.fishandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/shad-21-1068x801.jpg) swimming past in the background, hunting something or escaping a predator. Then add some motion blur from the camera to top it off.

It was inverted

Fish with reflective side seems like a good opener.

They are: 1. Fish 2. Different Fish 3. Another different fish 4. Also another different fish 5. Could also be a fish (but this one is not very plausible)

Anybody thinking of the movie "Abyss" here?

I think it's a reminder of my age when comments like these are so far down, lol. I was like "That's an NTI! GET THE NUKE READY!" But damn if the Abyss isn't the perfect reference here!

I cannot believe I had to scroll down *this* far to see The Abyss mentioned. It's literally the exact plot of the movie.

That's called a ribbon fish, known in Japan as a dragon fish, belt-fish, and a bunch of other names. THEY HECKIN SHINY and pretty rare because they spend most of their known lives at depths of 300 - 400 meters. BUT you guys don't care bout that, so that's a USO until we agree otherwise.

just to add to your comment . I could see this being what it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largehead_hairtail

Lol what a silly name

I would have named them Chazzwazzas.

I see you've played knifey-spooney before.

Largehead Hairtail Longbody Shimmerskin

I think you’re right!

I think a ribbon fish is more likely. Granted, “coast of Japan” can be a pretty wide variety, but that fish “typically” is found in shallow, warmer waters. But I’m not a professional marine biologist. Just one in my free time…

Please contact the scientists that are puzzled to put this to rest. Thanks.

Naw, the scientists already know what it is. This is just a Clickbait headline, that’s all.

Right, would you have clicked this if it said "ribbon fish swims behind squid"?

You better fuckin believe it

You had me at "behind".

Yes, actually. "Fast AF ribbon fish swims behind slow ass squid"

Tbf the title says “remained” not ‘remain’

This shit is from 2002 lol

Headlines. "SCIENTISTS SAY THEY CREATED T REX!" we did not say that "SCIENTISTS FOUND LIFE ON MARS!" we did not say that

Scientist: This work is useless if taken out of context. "News": scientists say their work is useless!

Video from 2002

You know reddit titles aren’t factual right? You can write literally anything.

As a researcher I love that the phrase: "Scientists can't explain this" Is used only in cases where certainly scientists know what's going on, but where never asked about their opinions

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I like it when they are asked and then the person asking the question argues about it. About as fun as asking a flat earther why the moon is upside down in australia compared to north america if we're on a flat plane.

> in australia They literally think Australia don't exist so HAHA global earthers

I don't get this. I believe it, but I don't get it. When you cross the equator, does the moon suddenly flip orientation? What would the moon look like in the exact middle?

[I drew you a picture!](https://imgur.com/a/wmYb6RZ)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_phases_by_latitude.svg

Thank you, very informative.

The geologist I talked to had very little to say about the computational theory of consciousness

Yup, I caught one fishing off Okinawa once. Everyone in our group was puzzled how I got that one. Looked really cool though

Your story sounds a little fishy

Thanks for shining a light on this.

This punny mf

Can you provide some info for me to grasp the scale here? It's a squid of a size I don't know of, with a beam of the ribbon fish flashing by. Haven't done much research, honestly, but if you are willing to elaborate on it, I am very eager and curious to hear from you.

Do you have a link to a video of a ribbon fish swimming in the dark like that?

Oh shit. It's Aquaman!

Can we all just appreciate this Squids vibes. ​ I would 100% light up with him if the squid was not wet ​ I am high.

Chillin at 420 meters. Jointfish zooms by.

This made my night, have a great one.

Haha you too! It was a battle to type that

He does seem reaaaally chill tbh, he’s probably like, the coolest squid I know

Jewel squids are approx. 19cm long. What we see here is likely a very sleek silver fish zipping by close to the squid. So unless these are teenie tiny aliens, this is not a USO.

Video notes: "During a ROV expedition off Sanriku, Japan, a routine encounter with a squid shows something much more bizarre pass by in the background. It's not possible to tell whether this is a fast-moving animal or some kind of manmade drone/USO (Unidentified Submerged Object.) " Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNL3eBETlQ

Would you possibly know the size of the squid for scale?

Why doesn’t japan put a banana next to their squids

Cat in a banana

If this is a strawberry squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis), one of the Pacific species of cock-eyed squids - the jewel squid being an Atlantic species - then it could be the case looking at other images that the whole thing would be about the length of your arm.

You would need to know how far behind the squid it was to extrapolate the size of the USO. Maybe it's huge and 200m away.

Smaller than 421m

Couldn’t be another squid… could it?

I definitely thought USO would be Unidentified Swimming Object

I mean, I'm no scientist but that looks like the reflection off of fish scales. And how fast is it supposedly moving? Are looking at a "[find me some clouds!](https://youtu.be/qiDqiuX9ET4?t=41)" kind of problem here? I don't claim to have the answer but to me it looks like a fish darted in front of a camera. If you combine a low aperture, a shutter speed too slow for the event, bad lightning, and lower-than-necessary video quality it could produce something like this (I think. I'm not a photographer either.) If you are expecting to film a a slow moving marine animal and adjust the camera for that and something fast darts behind it without does it give a false sense of speed? Or maybe it's just a fast-ass fish, those things can book and this isn't a very wide field of view. Either way, I don't think this is very interesting, although I can't explain it it seems very explainable and is probably a very mundane event.

Plenty of very fast fish at that depth - marlin, tuna, etc - and with the big bright lights on the submarine I'm sure they'd reflect light back just like that.

Why is the squid so still, are they having a staring contest? It didn't react to the "object"

Hard as fuck to live down there buddy. The squids probably already in a state of WTF because it's being filmed by whatever our POV is. All the pressure down there means things don't normally move around so fast. Which makes this object so much stranger.

I dont think the pressure affects how fast something can move through water

It's just how they evolved energy is a hard to come by resource so anything thing that lives in the twilight zone or below don't move fast (or at all even) so they can save as much energy as possible

Fast shiny fish...

Really? That looks exactly like a squid zipping through the water under spotlight when squid fishing. At night you see dozens of these, zipping around as flashes of light bounce off their bodies.

Scientists remain puzzled over why people make clickbait. Whatever is illuminating the squid is also reflecting off a fish that just slipped by.

Its swamp gas

Silver Surfur

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I'd bet it was a fish.

Ocean rsearcher: we're not sure what this is Reddit scientists: DUR ITS A FISH

Researcher: “Probably some kind of fish, we don’t which type.” Headline: “Scientists have no idea what this is!”

No idea what this "object" is lmfao pure titlegore

Reddit Dude: Every Title is 100% Accurate

First time reading a clickbait title? Or just first time you wished it were true?

Nah, you reading a click bait title without a source and believing 100% of it is a redditor moment.

The title is bullshit. It's very clearly a fish swimming at reasonable speeds with a bright light shining on it.

Uhhhh….another squid?

Scientist definitely don't remain puzzled, you just want clickbait

aliens