The Alaskan Sky Jellyfish: Strange Creatures in the Waters Above
Kevin Wikse vs. the Alaskan Sky Jellyfish. Fishing in the Waters Above. Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Horror of the Heights. From a bizarre sighting over Alaska to atmospheric cryptids, mysterious sky rods, biblical cosmology, and the possibility that the heavens conceal an undiscovered ecology. One reasonably expects to find certain things floating through the skies over Alaska. Bald eagles. Bush planes. Military aircraft. Weather balloons. Those moose-hunting mosquitoes large enough to require clearance from air traffic control. But a jellyfish? Now, that's a different kettle of fish. Or, in this particular case, a different kettle of whatever the hell that thing is. On June 15, 2026, a woman photographing a rainbow over Anchorage, Alaska, captured something rather peculiar. Suspended against the distant mountains was a dark, irregular object sporting what appeared to be multiple dangling tentacles. It looked less like an aircraft and more like something that had ...