Working off the coast of California in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, the crew were surprised to see a mysterious glowing purple orb on their live feed and used a robotic ...

Newly released footage of a glowing ... The orb proceeds to zoom alongside the aircrafts for more than a half-hour before disappearing with a flash of pinkish-purple light. Footage of the ...

a small purple orb clinging to the underside of a cliff more than 1 mile beneath the surface. The team was so enamored that it decided to retrieve the orb for further study. What happened next, though ...

“I’m stumped, I have no idea—I couldn’t even hazard a guess ... an embryo,” he tells Smithsonian.com. Even so, "the purple orb would be an unusual egg mass, especially if it contained ...

So, what is it? I really have no idea. Based on the angle the sun appears to be shining it’s possible (or perhaps likely) that the shiny glow of the orb is actually a reflection of sunlight ...