A mysterious jelly-like substance was discovered in the Ham Wall nature reserve in the English county of Somerset. Locals claim that she came from space.
According to folklore, a similar slime called "star jelly" has appeared more than once after meteor showers. This time, visitors to the reserve stumbled upon the "jelly" three days after the fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.
Representative of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Tony Whitehead, commented on the find as follows: “Although we do not know what it is, but descriptions of similar phenomena have been encountered before. In the 14th century they were called "star jelly". In folklore, it is mentioned that "jellies" always appeared after "star showers".
Visitors to the reserve are warned not to touch the jelly-like substance - for the last couple of days, people continue to find "star jellies" in different parts of the reserve, always on the grass and quite far from the water. The diameter of each "jelly" is about 10 cm.
The opinions of scientists are divided: some say that this is most likely one of the types of blue-green algae, others believe that the substance is the result of the regurgitation of one of the amphibians, and still others that it has to do with a fungus with the intriguing name "pearl trembling".