NOAA 'Golden Orb' identification: Scientists reveal what it really is

The mysterious “golden egg” discovered from the bottom of the ocean in 2023 is not an alien, scientists have determined after three years of research.

The 10 cm egg was discovered by the deep-sea expedition led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) below the Gulf of Alaska.

The complex structure has been studied by leading marine biologists and it took them three years of thorough investigation to determine that the strange entity was neither an alien organism nor an egg.

Many conspiracy theorists declared the egg-like structure to be a new alien species known as facehugger; however, the latest investigation has proved them wrong.

Scientists have finally cracked the case of the mysterious “egg” and concluded that it was a clump of dead cells that got attached to a deep-sea anemone called Relicanthus daphneae and attached it to the rock before the anemone died or moved to someplace else.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Dr Steven Auscavitch of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, who is also the lead author of the study, said that people kept asking about its true identity.

He added, “It is satisfying to bring attention to the small, weird things on our planet.”

The alien theory surfaced soon after the “egg’s” discovery when one member of the expedition, during its live feed, expressed fear that something might pop out if they cracked the object open.