Translucent Blue Spheres Rain Down in the UK, Mystifying Meteorologists

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE]Prepare your tinfoil hats: A man in Dorset, UK, was showered with tiny spheres of blue goo that rained down from the sky during a hailstorm last week. The tiny, one-inch gelatinous spheres are odorless, are not sticky, and are not meteorological, British authorities say. Basically, no one has any real clue what they are. Somebody get PopSci chief space correspondent Newt Gingrich on the line.

Former aircraft engineer Steve Hornsby noticed roughly a dozen of the tiny blue balls scattered around his yard during a fast-breaking hailstorm and had the foresight to grab a jar and a spoon before collecting the objects, which he flicked into the jar with said spoon.

Hornsby kept the spheres in his refrigerator, though that was later deemed unnecessary, as the balls of blue goo don’t appear to melt at room temperature. British meteorological authorities say they are not the result of some kind of weather event, though there is speculation that they could be “marine invertebrate eggs” that stuck to a bird’s feet and were carried into the air. Such eggs have been attributed to previous “strange goo” incidents, which apparently happen from time to time. In fact, according to the BBC, transmission of marine eggs via birds’ feet is something that is well documented. But we smell something fishy

[img]http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/media_images_58132000_jpg__58132958_dsc01619.jpeg[/img][/QUOTE]

Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/mysterious-spheres-blue-goo-rain-down-uk-mystifying-meteorologists[/url]

[TaintedTurnip]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/eiwqI.jpg[/img]

Obligatory.

[Daniel Smith]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eiwqI.jpg[/IMG]

[Joazzz]

There was a Donald Duck comic about this.

Unfortunately the blue stuff was a massive planet-eating polyp organism.

[Daniel Smith]

LATE

[Conely]

It's frogspawn or some other kind of egg. This happens all the time.

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34481040]LATE[/QUOTE]

It is? I didn't see any other thread about it

[Aerkhan]

Burn it all down.
Before it destroys all of us.

[superdinoman]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34481081]It is? I didn't see any other thread about it[/QUOTE]

I think he meant about his "Aliens" reference picture.

[Gazzy]

That's a weird thing to happen

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=superdinoman;34481113]I think he meant about his "Aliens" reference picture.[/QUOTE]

Someone rated the OP late as well, though.

[DainBramageStud]

weather balloon

[dbk21894]

Could be airplane shit, who knows.

[Zuimzado]

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;34481203]weather balloon[/QUOTE]

[kidwithsword]

Hasn't something like this happened several times before? I remember reading somewhere about events like this.

[editline]15:01[/editline]
[URL="http://www.mt.net/~watcher/blobs.html"]Hahaha, yeah. It's part of some stupid conspiracy theory.[/URL]

[TheTalon]

[QUOTE=dbk21894;34481339]Could be airplane shit, who knows.[/QUOTE]

That stuff would only be a sphere if it froze, it would unfreeze and turn back into a liquid at room temperature, which this did not. I say it's probably eggs of some sort that got pulled up into a storm or a big flock of birds accidentally carrying them flew over

[Mythman]

I rated the OP late.

I swear I have read about this on Facepunch before (although it may have been in the 'News Node' section) - the story itself is about 4 days old though.

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-16754531[/url]

[TaintedTurnip]

They look like ice, yet the description is of the opposite physicality. Wonder what actually caused them.

[Saza]

[quote]Somebody get PopSci chief space correspondent Newt Gingrich on the line.
[/quote]

Don't know if I should be concerned or laughing

[CodeMonkey3]

[QUOTE=kidwithsword;34481438]Hasn't something like this happened several times before? I remember reading somewhere about events like this.

[editline]15:01[/editline]
[URL="http://www.mt.net/~watcher/blobs.html"]Hahaha, yeah. It's part of some stupid conspiracy theory.[/URL][/QUOTE]

BLACK HELICOPTERS 9-11 THE BLUE SPHERES AND CHEM TRAILS!!

[Broseph_]

[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;34481543]BLACK HELICOPTERS 9-11 THE BLUE SPHERES AND CHEM TRAILS!![/QUOTE]

To be fair, the Federal Government does actually use black helicopters

[ironman17]

Maybe someone lost their jelly when they were on a plane?

Much more viable a possibility than alien eggs.

[Timebomb575]

What the hell, those look EXACTLY like the Xploderz water based balls after you shoot someone with them

[img]http://www.notcot.com/images/2011/06/xploderz11.jpg[/img]

[img]http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/060911_rg_Xploderz_01.jpg[/img]

These were all over my dorm after like 4 people on the floor bought them :v:

[shott]

[QUOTE=Timebomb575;34481639]What the hell, those look EXACTLY like the Xploderz water based balls after you shoot someone with them

[img]http://www.notcot.com/images/2011/06/xploderz11.jpg[/img]

[img]http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/060911_rg_Xploderz_01.jpg[/img]

These were all over my dorm after like 4 people on the floor bought them :v:[/QUOTE]

mystery solved?

[Squad]

Run a sample through an NMR or mass spec.

[sparky28000]

[img]http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda06/Items/MoonTear1.jpg[/img]

[CodeMonkey3]

[QUOTE=Broseph_;34481584]To be fair, the Federal Government does actually use black helicopters[/QUOTE]

So? We all knew that. But to conspiracy theorists mentioning black helicopters is like an allusion to the New World Order for some reason.

[Strongbad]

Tracing lasers

[Flem]

Poo from aeroplanes?

[Psycommu]

Comments on the article are saying that it might be some hydration gels used in gardening.

Personally I have no clue.