Alien looking creature transforming near Ocean floor at over 3700 feet.Video from ROV

This video was taken by an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) at a depth of 3753 ft in the Indian Ocean within close proximity to a drill wellhead. Near the end of the footage you can see the creature getting caught up in the output from the ROV thrusters. The video has not been altered and was taken off the East coast of Africa.

[kristensully]

I feel like that alien realized it got caught and tried to act normal like "im just a normal octopus do doo do doo do, f*ck they're not buying it!"

[SketchyCrush]

For those wondering, this is a Bloodbelly Comb Jelly also called Lampocteis. Really beautiful creatures.

[samaelangelus]

Like someone once told me, you'd think most animals in the world were aliens if you weren't taught about them beforehand. Giraffe, octopus, lemur are some examples. Imagine not knowing what a chameleon was, then finding a lizard with independent eyes, changes color, and a long tongue. So many amazing creatures.

[thehoodedvagabum]

This is why I never go more than 1000 ft under water when I go to the beach.

[BlackGryphn]

Interesting! Looks like a large comb jelly! Perhaps a deep-sea variant with black pigment to help it camouflage with its environment it’s dead.

[strictlymacintosh]

Powerful video. The camera catches the most amazing, beautiful creature never seen before, just to see it torn to shreds by the oil blowout valve. So very sad and also fitting for what we do to nature every second, everywhere on earth.

[bryndt]

When we've been looking for aliens up the sky when it's actually just in the waters lurking.

[somnisnemoris]

Majestically drifts, majestically shape shifts, majestically glows, majestically does a couple of cute spins and gets brutally ripped apart and tossed in the void. Rip glow globe </3

[chakraredeyes]

I cannot properly express the rapid change of emotion I felt watching this. From being so intrigued, to realizing it died after the burst of confusion not understanding wtf happened last 😂😫😵‍💫

[cube]

there’s another version of this video uploaded under a similar name where the comments section came to the conclusion that the creature was CGI because it was “moving too fast” and “looks like it was being pulled by a string” (which both only happened because it was being spun around in the vortex from a propeller) and I still think about that sometimes

[MrTigerlore]

“Oh what a beautiful, majestic creature. Perhaps the only one of its kind.”
**SNEEZE!!**
Creature rips in half
“Oh nice, Ron.”
“What? I sneezed. I can’t sneeze?”

[Qypthone]

It’s actually depressing to realize that it didn’t disappear in a mysterious way but instead got ripped apart because of the machine

[OrdinaryGK-SF]

How it went from its initial shape in this video (like some sort of alien spacecraft or insignia) into a shrouded, ghostly, billowing, agitated, quick-moving, illuminated thing is nothing short of amazing. It was definitely trying to get away, and QUICKLY. I guess it didn’t like the bright lights. Very strange, indeed! The alien life we seek is right here, ON THIS PLANET, at the bottom of our oceans!

[kobsnium]

This is definitely the vid arin was talking about i see why he hates it

[deeleak]

My dude flexing on us with his sick RGB

[oceanaelf]

Divers : "what is that? An alien?"
The alien: " this is what you've been waiting for terry, it's your time to shine"
Terry the alien : *starts dancing it's heart out*

[yussefjeber]

She was swirling while shining bright colors. Looks like a magical octopus girl in the middle of her transformation. Nature never cease to amaze us.

[arafin.]

Human : "It looks beautiful, let's kill it"
Thanks for not cutting that part

[hoodedman]

The video should be titled “newly discovered alien creature at the bottom of the ocean gets ripped to shreds”

[Bongaloid]

Enough with the jokes, we need more research on deep sea life. In all seriousness.