Creatures, legends & belief
Organism 46-B
cryptidEvidence status
Unverified urban legend, not a scientific discovery.
Editorial assessment of this proposition; not a numeric confidence score.
Claim or proposition being examined
Russian researchers encountered a dangerous intelligent cephalopod beneath Lake Vostok.
Limitations
Source demonstrates circulation of the claim, not its truth; independently authenticated evidence is required.
Catalog review date reported: 2026-10-28. This is inherited catalog metadata, not a new verification of the linked source.
Vostok Station photographed from above on 27 November 2013. Location context for the Lake Vostok story—not an image of the lake beneath the ice, an organism or the film.
NASA Earth Observatory / Digital Mapping System, Operation IceBridge, 27 November 2013. Previously proportionally resized.
Surface facilities only. Not the separately restricted RADARSAT lake imagery. Existing v14 asset reused; no new distinct image created.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
NASA imagery reusable for factual informational/editorial purposes under NASA media guidelines; exact item credit checked for third-party restrictions. No NASA endorsement.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- claim documentation and/or assessmenthttps://thefilmco-op.org/organism-46-b-the-unseen/
- displayed image provenance; not proof of the associated claimhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/flying-over-vostok-station-82672/
- image-specific reuse conditionshttps://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/
- documentary source for this record; not necessarily evidence supporting its claimhttps://thefilmco-op.org/organism-46-b-the-unseen/
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