JUNEAU, AK – Officials have been unable to identify large patches of mysterious black goo that were found off the coast of Alaska this week.
It is believed to have first been spotted by hunters last week, who notified authorities. Officials flew out to find patches of it floating offshore of the town Wainwright, from which they collected samples for testing. It has since been spotted 90 miles east near the town of Barrow.
Coast Guard officers are confirming it is definitely not oil, despite it’s similar consistency and color. Said Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer, “It’s definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it’s some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism.”
Gordon Brower of the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department described it: “From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it’s kind of blackish stuff… and has hairy strands on it.”
Brower said he had seen jellyfish caught in it, and someone turned in the remains of a dead goose – just bones and feathers – to the borough’s wildlife department.
Test results should help identify the goo next week – or confirm that it is something science has never seen before!
Skip through to 0:30 to see video of the black goo:
Oh great. The Artic is bleeding. o-o
Probably what's left of Jimmy Hoffa.
SARAH PALIN IS SECRETLY RUNNING THE COUNTRY AND THAT IS WHY SHE RESIGNED AND SHE MADE THE BLACK GOO TO DISTRACT THE MEDIA
it's the sewer alien in the deep blue!!!!
Circumstancees of climet change??
can This be made in in to fetalizer?.
Is it it some thing to do ships hull that new paint formulation that has Instead of killing barnacles by tons of coprous oxide.it takes a lot of paint to antie fell a hull?Nippon Paint Chemicals can Rot too ! ok now I can joke Becoues its forbidden knowlage
Can it grow legs ?
The Blob has been Reported in swamps befor. during vetnam war> hairy strands too.
It almost looks like the stuff from Creepshow 2 =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKpmpxfieTA
its a shoggoth! the end is nigh!
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
*cough* sorry, interesting stuff though
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