Abstract
ALMOST 12 YEARS AGO , the British merchant vessel S.S. Lima was cruising under a clear night sky along a southwesterly course in the Indian Ocean about 150 miles off the coast of Somalia. whitish glow was observed on the horizon, a crew member later reported. After 15 minutes of steaming, the ship was completely surrounded by a of white color with a fairly uniform luminescence.... It appeared as though the ship was sailing over a field of snow or gliding over clouds. Overhead, in the dark silence of space, a U.S. Department of Defense meteorological mapping satellite was zooming by, looking down with an uncommonly sensitive light detector. A decade later, with the milky sea report from the Lima as the clue, bioluminescence researchers retrieved the satellite's archived imagery. In images captured on Jan. 25-27, 1995, Steven H. D. Haddock of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Steven D. Miller of the ...
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