Quote:The inspirations behind the monster in Nope

In an interview with Thrillist, CalTech professor John O. Dabiri discussed his experience working as a consultant on UFO (or UAP) design for Nope, describing the creature as an amalgam of various terrestrial aquatic lifeforms such as jellyfish, squids, and octopuses.

Among the various species of jellyfish, Dabiri specifically cited the ghost knifefish as a direct influence on Jean Jacket’s design, comparing its ability to generate electric fields to the creature’s ability to generate an EMP field capable of knocking out all electric power in its vicinity.

Quote:Scientists Discover Huge and Mysterious Jellyfish-Shaped Structure In Space (April 6, 2021)

The gigantic plasma structure, known as 'USS Jellyfish,' is more than one million light years across and poses a series of bizarre questions to astronomers.



The name “USS Jellyfish” may evoke visions of a Starfleet vessel designed to accommodate gelatinous marine aliens. But it is actually the name of a very real, newly discovered structure in outer space that is like nothing that has ever been observed before.

The enormous entity, which extends for more than one million light years, is made of aging plasma that has taken on the shape of a jellyfish, at least from our perspective on Earth. Located in Abell 2877, a cluster of galaxies some 340 million light years away, the USS Jellyfish is the first known example of a “polyphoenix,” a radio source of immense complexity and mystery, according to a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal.