They're in Walden Pond!
"Dragon Boogers" a sort of variation on jellies.
| Tom Pelletier's article from 2001.
| Gen-yu Sasaki's great page with pictures and explanations.
| Here's a nearby page on "Things that don't belong where they are."
| Dr. Terry Peard at Indiana University (of Pennsylvania!) collects information and has a very good web page about these.
| A Boise, Idaho Girl Scout troup found some jellyfish.
| Encyclopedia Brittanica article.
| The US Geological Survey page, which explains where these jellyfish came from, and has a map of where they're found now.
| A Google Search for "Freshwater Jellyfish".
| Getting off topic a little, in 2017 there's a similar saltwater phenomenon happening in strange numbers. "Pyrosomes", which are colonies of zooidsa>.
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