Conspiracy and alien theorists came out in force last week after a weather modeling software “error” showed an anomaly the size of Texas moving up the coast of Africa while generating waves of more than 80 feet high.
Ventusky is an application that presents weather and weather data to allow users to track developments around the world.
According to the company's website, the app is available to anyone around the world and has the ability to illustrate particle movement, display wind data, and much more.
Last week, the app showed a group of waves reaching more than 80 feet in height and extending a distance wider than the state of Texas, moving up from Antarctica and toward the coast of Africa for about 24 hours before disappearing.
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Video of the weather conditions started the rumor mill, with people claiming it was anything from a huge underwater creature to a spaceship under the sea.
X user @528vibes posted the video which has garnered over 748,000 views, saying: “An anomaly moving underwater – the size of Texas.”
With a length of approximately 801 miles and a width of 773 miles from its two widest points, Texas, according to WorldAtlas.com, has an area of approximately 268,600 square miles.
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A generated image of an alien. (istock)
The video was also shared on YouTube by MrMBB333.
“As bizarre as some of the images you are about to see in this video are, they are all real,” he posted. “These are real encounters of 'something' that the viewer saw, recorded and was unable to identify.”
By Sunday afternoon, the video had been viewed 80,000 times, with followers debating what the huge black dot on the map was.
“Everyone knows Godzilla comes from the sea,” wrote one user.
Another said: “Okay, who released the Kraken?
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Other followers said the mysterious matter could be HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu, or even link the blob to a giant sea creature awakened by the April 8 solar eclipse.
But others have suggested there may have been some sort of problem with the software, as the mass on the map moved across a major shipping channel and sailors reported no significant waves in the area .
Digitally generated image of UFOs in the sky. A major weather anomaly that appeared on the Ventusky app has people going wild with conspiracy theories about what it could be. (iStock)
Ventusky saw the buzz the card created and quickly resolved the situation, debunking the conspiracy floating in the ether.
“Despite numerous reports of UFOs or Atlanteans launching from the ocean, yesterday's image of giant waves near Africa was due to a model error,” the company wrote. “Fortunately, our supplier, the German Meteorological Institute @DWD_Presse, has already solved the problem and the forecast is good.”
The company added that the model takes into account large amounts of data from ships and buoys across the ocean, and that problems can arise with such large databases.
Still, it may take time to discover the cause of last week's error, the company wrote.
But despite the company's attempts to defuse the situation, the detectives continued, forcing Ventusky to try to prove his point once again.
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“A significant number of people still do not believe that the giant waves off Africa were just a mistake and prefer UFO theories,” Ventusky wrote. “What can we do as a visualization platform? Add more sources! Therefore, we are incorporating another wave model from a respected source, Météo-France.”
Ventusky CEO and founder David Prantl did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's inquiries on the matter.