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Orange Worm next to Terrestrial Fly

The following pictures show an orange worm that came from the Frass Meteorite.  During my stay at Roswell, I tried to show a different  view through the microscope each day that I was there.  Thus, I really had a chance to examine closely a great deal of the meteorite.  On the bottom side, near where I took the core sample, is several natural "caverns" that go back into the meteorite.   I discovered that one of the caverns had what appears to be a very old glassy colony.  It is mixed with a lot of debris that appears to be ocean type debris.  Also, there may be a terrestrial spider web mixed in the lot, but most of the stuff clearly came with the meteorite.  As I was showing this meteorite every day and having to put it up each night, I realized that this whole glob of stuff was about to turn loose and fall out of the meteorite.  So I used my tweezers and I took it out and put it in a microscope dish.  Among the debris, is the body of an orange colored worm.  It appears to have a large single opening on one end and some little leg like appendages, as well as being covered with spikes.  I can't see any eyes are even anything that might be considered a face.  I don't have the proper tools to separate the worm from the glassies stuck to him, so I have just left him for future researchers.  (He is available for any qualified researcher to study.)  

In this photo, you can see a terrestrial fly, on the left side, which was placed in this container as an experiment.  Just to the right of the fly's head, near the bottom, is the outline of the worm.  He didn't photograph very well, but you can see his "head" end, I think, and then the rest of his body moves upward and to the right at a 45 degree angle.  He is caught in this vast web of glassies and is hard to extricate.  I place the fly in the dish to see if the glassies would attach to it.  They have.  They are firmly attached in a number of places and clearly are "interested" in his body.  You can see many of the glassies at the top right of the picture.

Here is a magnified view of the worm.  Again, he is at the bottom right of the photograph and moves upward at a 45 degree angle.  The glassies can be seen attaching to the fly, which is at the bottom left and is black.

   

Here are more pictures, to give a better overview.

 

In this photo, you can clearly see the glassies attached to the fly.  Up at the top, one reaches out and touches the wing.  Near the middle, one crosses the flies leg and attaches to its body.  Others can be see around the head of the fly near the bottom of the photo.

It has been very interesting to learn that the glassies can "eat" terrestrial creatures.  NASA has apparently found the same glass fungus living on one of its Martian Meteorites, ALH 76004.  A person at the Roswell Museum had a meteorite he had discovered at White Sands.  It was very light weight and had glassies growing on it.  I think it was probably martian, due to its light weight.  Also, while at the museum, a friend gave me a piece of what he said was collected from an alien crash site.  This debris also had glassies growing on them.  Also, I've heard of one other meteorite that was found to have glassies growing on them.  I don't know what all of this means, except that I think the glassies evolved to live in a very dry and cold world and that allows them to live easily in space.  

I have proposed, half as a joke, that maybe the glassies were the cause of the alien space craft accident.  But new information has led me to continue to wonder about this possibility.  Glassies seem to like a variety of substances and could really pose a problem for any space ship that became infected with them.  It is possible that they could cause damage, because mankind has already found that certain fungus are thriving in our space stations, and in fact, have caused damage to them.  Go to my common links page and I have left a link there that goes to the article about the damage already found to have been caused by microscopic "space" life.

 

 

 

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