A TV news anchor in Boston appeared to swallow a fly live on the air — but rather than cough up a storm or make a big fuss … she just downed it and kept on going.

Check out this wild clip that shows Boston 25 News reporter Vanessa Welch leading a newscast late last week when something seemed to fall right into her mouth and down her throat in a flash … which, of course, happened to be caught on camera.

On Boston25, the news anchor demonstrated true journalistic professionalism: she swallowed a fly and continued to broadcast asnothing had happened. pic.twitter.com/v9Chc1R8QI

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On its face, it looks to be a bug of some sort — likely a fly if it was in fact an insect — but some have suggested it was something else entirely … maybe an eyelash.

If you look closely … you’ll see that whatever the object is, it’s sitting right under her eye socket — and as she continues to talk … it quickly makes a descent … eventually landing in her mouth and disappearing. Vanessa pauses for a moment … and seems to swallow it.

It all happens really quickly … and just like that, she’s moved on and kept on reporting the news. Talk about professionalism — lord knows that’s not how all journos would handle this.

In fact … there’s a very famous clip of Houston reporter Isiah Carey doing a live shot out in the field way back in the day … which got interrupted by a bug of some sort that flew straight into his mouth. He ended up stopping the report entirely and dealing with it … hilariously so.

Vanessa kept it a little more together this time around … but whatever it was that went in there, it certainly wasn’t welcome. Ya also gotta imagine she’s annoyed by it … seeing how she’s inside and *should* presumably be able to avoid an airborne invader like this.