Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the sky in New York
21st January 2011QuoteThe FAA has launched an investigation after a mysterious greenish-yellow goo fell from the skies and splattered homes in Snyder, New York on Tuesday.
Homes along Washington Highway and Berryman Drive are now coated in yellow or green icicles. Walls and pavements are splashed with a bizarre deep brown substance.
Neighbours said the mystery substance appeared between the hours of 9am and midnight on Tuesday.
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Goo-ross! Snow with a strange greenish-yellow cast to it is seen piled outside the door of a home in Snyder, New York(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/21/article-1349151-0CD8898A000005DC-544_634x426.jpg)
Mellow yellow: Unnaturally coloured icicles hang from the roof of another house. The FAA has ruled out 'blue ice' - frozen human excrement falling from passing airplanesQuoteThe colour and texture of the goo immediately sparked fears of 'blue ice' - that is, frozen human excrement known to fall from airplanes passing overhead, ABC News reported.
However the FAA swiftly launched an investigation and discarded that possibility.
A spokesman told ABC: 'The local flight standards inspectors investigated the situation and determined it was not from an aircraft.'
So what could it be?
The town waste engineer said they are looking in to it - and have already come across some rather distasteful theories.
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Have a nice drip: More strangely-coloured goo - but where did it come from?(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/21/article-1349151-0CD889A7000005DC-400_634x430.jpg)
'm not lovin' it: One woman has theorised that the goo could be from birds eating fast food litter - such as leftover McDonald's French friesQuote'We received a call this morning from a woman who owns a house on the same street, Washington Highway. She gave us her explanation because it happened to her last year,' Lisa Kistner, a spokesman for the Amherst Town Supervisor's Office, told ABC.
'She said it's actually because the seagulls eat fast food at McDonald's, which upsets their digestive tract,' Ms Kistner explained.
The seagulls were eating leftover French fries out of paper bags discarded in the parking lots, the woman apparently claimed.
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For the birds: Ornithologists at Cornell agree the goo could be bird droppings... but scientists are still doing testsQuoteAnd, Ms Kistner said, as soon as the woman convinced fast food restaurants to clean up the rubbish in their parking lots, she no longer had that problem.
'She suggested that someone check the fast food parking lots because that is probably the root cause of this issue,' Ms Kistner said.
The woman's bizarre account may not be that far enough. Bird experts who have examined images of the goo actually agree they do resemble bird droppings - though seagulls were ruled innocent.
Instead, according to Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, the droppings may be from a large flock of birds often found in upstate New York in January - European starlings.
But with the town's engineers still doing tests, locals will, for now, simply have to wait a bit longer - and perhaps invest in a good umbrella or two.
Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the sky in New York - Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349151/Mystery-greenish-yellow-goo-falls-sky-New-York.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)
Green/Yellow Goo Falls from skies (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread653819/pg1) - ATS Thread
Mystery Goo Turns Icicles Green and Yellow in Snyder, N.Y. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/splatterings-green-goo-fall-sky-snyder-ny/story?id=12649849#.TyiVXoE_cyk) - ABC Video Report
Red Rain in Kerala, India(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/04images/Red_Rain/794px-Red_rain_Kerala_optical_microscope1.jpg)
Credit: Louis and Kumar's research paper Photomicrograph of particles from red rain sampleRed Rain in Kerala, IndiaQuoteFrom 25 July to 23 September 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours occurred in which the rain was coloured red, staining clothes with an appearance similar to that of blood. Yellow, green, and black rain was also reported. Coloured rain had been reported in Kerala in as early as 1896 and several times since then.
It was initially announced that the rains were coloured by fallout from a hypothetical meteor burst, but a study commissioned by the Government of India found that the rains had been coloured by airborne spores from a locally prolific terrestrial alga. Other explanations were proposed but not until early 2006 did the coloured rains of Kerala gain widespread attention in the popular media. A controversial conjecture that the coloured particles were extraterrestrial cells was proposed by Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam. No information to support the extraterrestrial hypothesis has been published since 2006
Red rain in Kerala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/WaterSample.jpg)
Rain water sample (left) and after the particles settled (right). Dried sediment (center).(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Red_rain_Kerala.jpg)
Red rain collected in stainless steel vessels(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/04images/Red_Rain/Location_of_Kottayam_Kerala.png)
Kottayam district in Kerala, which experienced the most intense red rainfallQuoteOccurrence
The coloured rain of Kerala began falling on 25 July 2001, in the districts of Kottayam and Idukki in the southern part of the state. Yellow, green, and black rain was also reported. Many more occurrences of the red rain were reported over the following ten days, and then with diminishing frequency until late September. According to locals, the first coloured rain was preceded by a loud thunderclap and flash of light, and followed by groves of trees shedding shrivelled grey "burnt" leaves. Shrivelled leaves and the disappearance and sudden formation of wells were also reported around the same time in the area. It typically fell over small areas, no more than a few square kilometres in size, and was sometimes so localised that normal rain could be falling just a few metres away from the red rain. Red rainfalls typically lasted less than 20 minutes. Each millilitre of rain water contained about 9 million red particles, and each litre of rainwater was contained approximately 100 milligrams of solids. Extrapolating these figures to the total amount of red rain estimated to have fallen, it was estimated 50,000 kilograms of red particles had fallen on Kerala.
Description of the particles
The brownish-red solid separated from the red rain consisted of about 90% round red particles and the balance consisted of protozoans and debris. The particles in suspension in the rain water were responsible for the colour of the rain, which at times was as strongly coloured as blood. A small percentage of particles were white or had light yellow, bluish gray and green tints. The particles were typically 4 to 10 µm across and spherical or oval. Louis's images with a scanning electron microscope showed the particles as having a depressed centre, suggestive of biological cell, especially red blood cells. At still higher magnification some particles showed internal structures.
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Grains under a scanning electron microscope (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/04images/Red_Rain/Red_rain_Kerala_TEM.png)
A single grain viewed with a transmission electron microscope,
purportedly showing a detached inner capsule. Source: CCAB, Cardiff UniversityRelated Links:1. Red Rain in Kerala, India (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/02files/Red_Rain_in_Kerala.html) - Pegasus Page
2. Panspermia Proven? (http://www.mercuryrapids.co.uk/articles5.htm#panspermiaproven06102006)
3. Scarlets Of Fire (http://web.archive.org/web/20041226194558/http://www.indiatoday.com/webexclusive/dispatch/20010905/stephen.html)
4. Red Rain of Kerala (http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/R/red_rain_of_Kerala.html) - David Darling
5. Red rain in Kerala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala) - Wikipedia Lots of links to studies and papers
6. When aliens rained over India (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925411.100) - New Scientist
7. Searching for 'our alien origins' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6146292.stm) - BBCPapers:1. Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310120) - LANL Archives Cornell University
2. Colored Rain: A Report on the Phenomenon (http://web.archive.org/web/20060613135746/http://www.geocities.com/iamgoddard/Sampath2001.pdf)
3. Unusual autofluorescence of cultured red-rain cells (http://sites.google.com/site/godfreylouis/files/spiepaper709712.pdf?attredirects=2) - Godfrey Louis and A. Santhosh Kumar
4. New biology of red rain extremophiles prove cometary panspermia (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312639)
5. Red rain cell research: A new perspective for interplanetary transfer of life (http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2009/abstracts/EPSC2009-707-1.pdf)
6. The red rain phenomenon of Kerala and its possible extraterrestrial origin (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601022)
7. Growth and replication of red rain cells at 121oC and their red fluorescence (http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1008/1008.4960.pdf)WOW Here is a case that shows when you revisit an old topic it suddenly has a LOT more updates. Yet if you were to post those updates at some forums you would just get "Oh we already covered this" comments. Yet here it seems that main stream scientists have really studied the extraterrestrial possibility of this rain.
These articles an papers are just dome I found via Wikipedia. I will have to look at this in more detail :o
The Blob
A strange clear goo falls on the town of Oakville, Washington.Poison Rains Infect Small Town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRusfXUaW4
QuoteUnsolved Mysteries The Blob
A Toxic Goo rains on residents of Oakville, Washington
May 8, 1997
Robert Stack: It came from the skies to wreck havoc on the earth.
It sounds like a bad science fiction movie, but for the little town in Washington there was nothing entertaining about the scourge that befell them in 1994. Six times it rained down from above, leaving dozens of local residents ill, and several pets and small animals dead. It all happened in Oakville, Washington, population 665. Here in Oakville, clouds fill the skies daily, bringing rain some 275 days a year. So, when it began pouring on the morning of August 7, 1994, no one was particularly concerned - until they realized it wasn't raining rain. It was raining tiny blobs of gelatinous goo. It came down in torrents, blanketing 20 square miles, and brought with it something of a plague.
Maurice Gobeil (local resident): I got sick, my wife got sick, my daughter got sick and everybody that lived here got sick.
Beverly Roberts (local resident): Everybody in the whole town came down with something like the flu, only it was a really hard flu that lasted from seven weeks to two or three months.
Robert Stack: The local police were among the first to report the perplexing precipitation. Officer David Lacey was on patrol with a civilian friend at 3am when the downpour began.
David Lacey (police officer): We turned our windshield wipers on, and it just started smearing to the point where we could almost not see. We both looked at each other and we said 'gee this isn't right'. We're out in the middle of nowhere, basically, and where did this come from?
Robert Stack: Officer Lacey pulled into a gas station to de-goo his windshield. As an added precaution, he put on a pair of latex gloves.
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A gelatinous material fell from the sky(http://www.unsolved.com/ajaxfiles/images/cases/sci_the_blob2.jpg)
Tests were performed on the substanceQuoteOakville, Washington. Population: 723. Clouds fill the sky here daily, bringing rain on average of 149 days a year. So when it began pouring on the morning of August 7, 1994, no one was really concerned, until they realized it wasn't raining rain. It was raining tiny blobs of gelatinous goo. It came down in torrents, covering 20 square miles. And it made people sick, including Maurice Gobeil:
The Blob - Unsolved Mysteries (http://www.unsolved.com/ajaxfiles/sci_the_blob.htm)
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Exuberant1Strange Blue Spheres Fall Over England 2012 Hey zorgon,
I saw this video earlier featuring this strange blue gelatin-like substance which had rained down in England. Wouldn't have stood out more than the usual video of strange things falling from the sky, except the colour and consistency of the stuff kinda reminded me of something I's read about before. Anyhow, the NAVY invented this stuff back in the seventies to stop radiation and this reminded me of that so I did some digging and find this page which as this quote:
Titanium makes things blue right? Well this gel in the video looks like it has some titanium in it, and with the radiation from Fukashima and old patents saying what they say, I think this blue gel might amount to something.
Anyhow, here is the vidya of the gel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsSrqi0MMug
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Bournemouth resident mystified by 'blue sphere shower'QuoteA man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden. Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm. He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: "[They're] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar."
The Met Office said the jelly-like substance was "not meteorological".
Mr Hornsby, a former aircraft engineer, said: "The sky went a really dark yellow colour.
"As I walked outside to go to the garage there was an instant hail storm for a few seconds and I thought, 'what's that in the grass'?"
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The blue spheres are jelly-like but have no smell and are not stickyQuote'No smell'
Mr Hornsby said he was keeping the balls in his fridge while he tried to find out what they were
Walking around his garden he found many more blue spheres were scattered across the grass.
He said: "The have an exterior shell with a softer inner but have no smell, aren't sticky and do not melt."
Mr Hornsby said he was keeping the balls in his fridge while he tried to find out what they were.
Josie Pegg, an applied science research assistant at Bournemouth University, speculated that the apparently strange phenomena might be "marine invertebrate eggs".
"These have been implicated in previous 'strange goo' incidents," she said. "I'd have thought it's a little early for spawning but I suppose we've had a very mild winter.
"The transmission of eggs on birds' feet is well documented and I guess if a bird was caught out in a storm this could be the cause."
Bournemouth resident mystified by 'blue sphere shower' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-16754531) - BBC Report
Blue Spheres Fall from the Sky in the UK (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread802508/pg1) - ATS ThreadPosted by ZorgonPossible explanation of these, considering only one person found them in one yard...
Water Gel Expanding Spheres Could have come from kids or put into the lawn, triggered by rain fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSqWHe0eVxg
Strange Orange Goo Fell On Remote Town In Alaska August 8 2011 Mysterious Orange Goo Rains Down In Alaska http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGYZXKNnFho
Why do people just try to pick up the goop with bare hands? I mean the cop at least used a glove and still got sick. The British guy and his wife used bare hands to scoop it up and the lady in this one sticks her hand in it
Really? :o
Alaska Orange Goo - Don't Worry- It's Just Millions of Microscopic Eggs Filled with Fatty Droplets (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/04images/Goop/Alaska_001.png)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEVHfra8YH0
Mysterious Orange Goo in Alaska Tiny Eggs of Unknown Species(http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/08/09/144804.jpg)
Microscopic crustacean eggs which washed up on an Alaskan shore are shown in this undated handout photo from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to Reuters August 8, 2011. The eggs washed up onshore in the Alaskan village of Kivalina on the state's northwest coast. REUTERS/Auke Bay Laboratories/NOAA/HandoutBy IB Times Staff Reporter
August 9, 2011QuoteThe mysterious orange colored goo that washed upon the shores of an Alaskan village last week has been identified. Denying rumors that suggested that the orange stuff was a form of alien life, Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lab said on Monday that it was a mass of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets, most likely to be of a small crustacean.
QuoteThe emergence of the substance on the shores of Kivalina in northwest Alaska shocked residents on Wednesday. According to Julie Speegle, representative of the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Auke Bay Laboratories, further testing of the substance will help to determine whether the eggs are toxic.
"We now think these are some sort of small crustacean egg or embryo, with a lipid oil droplet in the middle causing the orange color," Jeep Rice, a lead NOAA scientist at the Juneau lab, said in a release.
"So this is natural. It is not chemical pollution; it is not a man-made substance," Rice added.
Scientists believe that the substance is some kind of crustacean eggs; however, they are not sure enough about the species. They also don't know whether the substance is poisonous. This is what makes the residents of Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo community, worried.
"Certain organisms can produce toxins, and you can't tell if that's the case (here) until you know what species it is," said Emanuel Hignutt, analytical chemistry manager for the state Environmental Health Laboratory.
"It was easy to see cellular structure surrounding the lipid droplet, and to identify this as 'animal'," said Rice. "We have determined these are small invertebrate eggs, although we cannot tell which species."
According to Janet Mitchell, Kivalina city administrator, the substance may have rained down on the village Wednesday evening as it was found in buckets used by some residents to collect rainwater that night.
The samples of the mysterious substance have sent to the Institute for Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Monday.
Mysterious Orange Goo in Alaska Tiny Eggs of Unknown Species (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194728/20110809/mysterious-orange-goo-in-alaskan-noaa-village-identified-as-tiny-eggs-but-species-unknown-alien-life.htm)
QuoteOriginally posted by rstregooski at ATS (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread802508/pg2#pid13334399)
I have the book "The Complete Works of Charles Fort", a detailed investigation of some really messed up stuff happening all over the world in the past few hundred years...
A similar event happened in 1883..
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Remember the fall of worms reported not too long ago? That's happened numerous times according to his work!
The Complete Books of Charles Fort: The Book of the Damned - Charles Fort (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486230945/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pegasreseacon-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0486230945)
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort (http://www.archive.org/stream/thebookofthedamn22472gut/22472.txt)
Yellow RainHere is one that popped up and is scary...
QuoteYellow rain was a political incident in which the United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Soviet Union of supplying T-2 mycotoxin to the Communist states in Vietnam and Laos for use in counterinsurgency warfare.
Refugees described many different forms of attacks, including a sticky yellow liquid falling from planes or helicopters, which was dubbed "yellow rain". The US government alleged that over ten thousand people had been killed in attacks using these chemical weapons. The Soviet Union denied these claims and an initial United Nations investigation was inconclusive.
Surprisingly, samples of the supposed chemical agent supplied to independent scientists turned out to be honeybee feces, suggesting that the "yellow rain" was due to mass defecation of digested pollen grains from large swarms of bees. Other scientists questioned the accuracy of the refugee accounts and the reliability of the chemical analyses presented by the US government. The majority of the scientific literature on this topic now regards the hypothesis that yellow rain was a Soviet chemical weapon as disproved. However, the issue remains disputed and the US government has not withdrawn these allegations, arguing that the issue has not been fully resolved.
Many of the US documents relating to this incident remain classified.
Yellow Rain - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_rain)
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Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State, 1981.AllegationsQuoteThe charges stemmed from events in Laos and Vietnam beginning in 1975, when the two governments, which were allied with and supported by the Soviet Union, retaliated against Hmong tribes, peoples who had sided with the United States during the Vietnam War. Refugees described events that they believed to be chemical warfare attacks by low-flying aircraft or helicopters; several of the reports were of a yellow, oily liquid that was dubbed "yellow rain". Those exposed claimed neurological and physical symptoms including seizures, blindness, and bleeding. Similar reports came from the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978.
A 1997 report produced by the U.S. Army Medical Department stated that over ten thousand people were killed in attacks using chemical weapons in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan.[2] The descriptions of the attacks were diverse and included air-dropped canisters and sprays, booby traps, artillery shells, rockets and grenades that produced droplets of liquid, dust, powders, smoke or "insect-like" materials of a yellow, red, green, white or brown color.
Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced in September 1981 that:
For some time now, the international community has been alarmed by continuing reports that the Soviet Union and its allies have been using lethal chemical weapons in Laos, Kampuchea, and Afghanistan. ... We have now found physical evidence from Southeast Asia which has been analyzed and found to contain abnormally high levels of three potent mycotoxins--poisonous substances not indigenous to the region and which are highly toxic to man and animals.
The Soviet Union described these accusations as a "big lie" and in turn accused the US government of using chemical weapons during the Vietnam war. The American accusations prompted a United Nations investigation in Pakistan and Thailand. This involved five doctors and scientists who interviewed alleged witnesses and collected samples that were purported to come from Afghanistan and Cambodia. However, the interviews produced conflicting testimony and the analyses of the samples were inconclusive. The UN experts also examined two refugees who claimed to be suffering from the after-effects of a chemical attack, but the refugees were instead diagnosed as having fungal skin infections. The team reported that they were unable to verify that chemical weapons had been used but noted that circumstantial evidence "suggestive of the possible use of some sort of toxic chemical substance in some instances."
The US mycotoxin analyzes were reported in the scientific literature in 1983 and 1984 and reported small amounts of mycotoxins called trichothecenes, ranging from the parts per million to traces in the parts per billion range. The lowest possible limit of detection in these mycotoxin analyzes is in the parts per billion range. However, several inconsistencies in these reports caused a "prolonged, and at times acrimonious, debate on the validity of the analyses". A 2003 medical review notes that this debate may have been exacerbated since "Although analytical methods were in their infancy during the controversy, they were still sensitive enough to pick up low levels of environmental trichothecene contamination.".
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Bee droppings on leaves, resembling "yellow rain"InvestigationQuoteC. J. Mirocha at the University of Minnesota conducted a biochemical investigation, looking for the presence of trichothecene mycotoxins, including T-2 toxin, diacetoxyscirpenol (DAS), and deoxynivalenol (DON). This included chemical analyses of blood, urine, and tissue of alleged victims of chemical attacks in February 1982 in Laos and Kampuchea. "The finding of T-2, HT-2, and DAS toxins in blood, urine, and body tissues of alleged victims of chemical warfare in Southeast Asia provides compelling proof of the use of trichothecenes as nonconventional warfare agents....Additional significant findings lie in the trichothecenes found in the leaf samples (T-2, DON, nivalenol) and yellow powder (T-2, DAS)....The most compelling evidence is the presence of T-2 and DAS in the yellow powder. Both toxins are infrequently found in nature and rarely occur together. In our experience, copious producers of T-2 toxin (F. tricinctum) do not produce DAS, and conversely, good producers of DAS (F. roseum 'Gibbosum') do not produce T-2." (10) In 1983, these charges were disputed by Harvard biologist and biological weapons opponent Matthew Meselson and his team, who traveled to Laos and conducted a separate investigation. Meselson's team noted that trichothecene mycotoxins occur naturally in the region and questioned the witness testimony. He suggested an alternate hypothesis that the yellow rain was the harmless fecal matter of honeybees. The Meselson team offered the following as evidence: separate "yellow rain drops" which occurred on the same leaf, and which were "accepted as authentic", consisted largely of pollen; each drop contained a different mix of pollen grains, as one would expect if they came from different bees, and the grains showed properties characteristic of pollen digested by bees (the protein inside the pollen grain was gone, while the outer indigestible shell remained). Further, the pollen mix came from plant species typical of the area where a drop was collected.
The US government responded to these findings by arguing that the pollen was added deliberately, in order to make a substance that could be easily inhaled and "ensure the retention of toxins in the human body". Meselson responded to this idea by stating that it was rather far-fetched to imagine that somebody could produce a chemical weapon by "gathering pollen predigested by honeybees." Meselson's work was described in an independent medical review as providing "compelling evidence that yellow rain might have a benign natural explanation".
Analyzes of putative "yellow rain" samples by the British, French and Swedish governments confirmed the presence of pollen and failed to find any trace of mycotoxins. Toxicology studies questioned the reliability of reports stating that mycotoxins had been detected in alleged victims up to two months after exposure, since these compounds are unstable in the body and are cleared from the blood in just a few hours. Surveys also showed that both mycotoxin-producing fungi and mycotoxin contamination were common in Southeast Asia, casting doubt on the assertion that detecting these compounds was an unusual occurrence. For example, a Canadian military laboratory found mycotoxins in the blood of five people from the area who had never been exposed to yellow rain, out of 270 tested, but none in the blood of ten alleged victims, and a 1988 paper reported that illnesses from mycotoxin exposure may pose a serious threat to public health in Malaysia. It is now recognized that mycotoxin contamination of foods such as wheat and maize is a common problem, particularly in temperate regions of the world. As noted in a 2003 medical review, "The government research highlighted, if nothing else, that natural mycotoxicoses were an important health hazard in Southeast Asia."
in 1987 the New York Times reported that later freedom of information requests showed that field investigations in 1983-85 by US government teams had produced no evidence to substantiate the initial allegations and instead cast doubt on the reliability of the initial reports, however The Times noted that these critical reports were not released to the public. A 1989 analysis of the initial reports gathered from Hmong refugees that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association noted "marked inconsistencies that greatly compromised the validity of the testimony" and criticized the methods used in interviews by the US Army medical team that gathered this information. These issues included the US Army team only interviewing those people who claimed to have knowledge of attacks with chemical weapons and the investigators asking leading questions during interviews. The authors noted that individuals' stories changed over time, were inconsistent with other accounts, and that the people who claimed to have been eyewitnesses when first interviewed later stated that they had been relaying the accounts of others.
QuoteConclusions
Currently, two main viewpoints exist on the yellow rain controversy. One viewpoint sees these allegations as supported by insufficient evidence, or as having been completely refuted. For instance, a 1992 review published in Politics and the Life Sciences described the idea of yellow rain as a biological agent as conclusively disproved and called for an assessment by the US government of the mistakes made in this episode, stating that "the present approach of sweeping the matter under the rug and hoping people will forget about it could be counterproductive." Similarly, a 1997 review of the history of biological warfare published in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that the yellow rain allegations are "widely regarded as erroneous", a 2001 review in the Annual Reviews in Microbiology described them as "unsubstantiated for many reasons", and a 2003 article in Annual review of phytopathology described them as "largely discredited". A 2003 review of the history of biological warfare described these allegations as one of many cases where states have produced propaganda containing false or unsubstantiated accusations of the use of biological weapons by their enemies.
In contrast, as of 1997 the US Army maintains that some experts believe that "trichothecenes were used as biological weapons in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan" although they write that "it has not been possible for the United States to prove unequivocally that trichothecene mycotoxins were used as biological weapons." They argued that presence of pollen in yellow rain samples is best explained by the idea that "during biological warfare attacks, dispersed trichothecenes landed in pollen-containing areas."[2] Similarly, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency argues that the controversy has not been resolved and state that a CIA report indicated the Soviet Union did possess weapons based on T-2 mycotoxin, although they state that "no trace of a trichothecene-containing weapon was ever found in the areas affected by yellow rain" and conclude that the use of such weapons "may never be unequivocally proved." A 2007 review published in Politics and the Life Sciences concluded that the balance of evidence strongly supported the hypothesis that some type of chemical or biological weapon was used in Southeast Asia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but noted that they found no definitive proof of this hypothesis and that the evidence could not "identify the specific agents used, the intent, or the root source or sources of the attacks."
Yellow Rain - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_rain)
Later eventsQuoteAn episode of mass pollen release from bees in 2002 in Sangrampur, India, prompted unfounded fears of a chemical weapons attack, although this was in fact due to a mass migration of giant Asian honeybees. This event revived memories of what New Scientist described as "cold war paranoia", and the article noted that the Wall Street Journal had covered these 1980s yellow rain allegations in particular detail. Indeed, the Wall Street Journal continues to assert that the Soviet Union used yellow rain as a chemical weapon in the 1980s and in 2003 accused Matthew Meselson of "excusing away evidence of Soviet violations."
In the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq the Wall Street Journal alleged that Saddam Hussein possessed a chemical weapon called "yellow rain". The Iraqis appear to have investigated trichothecene mycotoxins in 1990, but only purified a total of 20 ml of the agent from fungal cultures and did not manage to scale up the purification or produce any weapons containing these compounds. Although these toxins are not generally regarded as practical tactical weapons, the T-2 toxin might be a usable weapon since it can be absorbed through the skin, although it would be very difficult to manufacture it in any reasonable quantity.
Henry Wilde, a retired US Foreign Service Officer, has drawn parallels between the use of yellow rain allegations by the US government against the Soviet Union and the later exaggerated allegations on the topic of Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Wilde considers it likely that states may again "use rumors and false or planted intelligence of such weapons use for propaganda purposes." and calls for the establishment of a more rigorous inspection process to deal with such claims. Similar concerns were expressed in a 2006 review published by the World Organisation for Animal Health, which compared the American yellow rain accusations to other cold-war accusations from the Soviet Union and Cuba, as well as to more recent mistaken intelligence on Iraqi weapons capabilities, concluding that such unjustified accusations have encouraged the development of biological weapons and increased the risk that they might be used, as they have discredited arms-control efforts.
Yellow Rain - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_rain)
Papers:1. The Yellow Rain Controversy: Lessons for Arms Control Compliance (http://cns.miis.edu/npr/pdfs/81tucker.pdf) - Jonathan Tucker (Spring 2001) - The Nonproliferation Review
2. Trichothecene mycotoxins: in Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare (http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/published_volumes/chemBio/Ch34.pdf) - U.S. Army Medical Department
3. Report of the Secretary-General on Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons (http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/UNODA/Library.nsf/866a73aac712273f8525757d004de1c4/acf7b082e8b749718525760f006aa79c/$FILE/A-37-259.pdf), U.N. Doc. A/37/259, at 26-41 (Dec. 1, 1982)
4. Misperceptions in preparing for biological attack: an historical survey (http://www.oie.int/doc/ged/D3223.PDF) - M. Furmanski
Yellow Rain Falls
Published: September 03, 1987QuoteAs every reader of Washington memoirs knows, Government has two castes: bureaucrats who endlessly churn out red tape, and political appointees who daringly cut through it. The case of yellow rain, set out in the fall issue of Foreign Policy, demolishes this myth. It proves how embarrassingly astray political appointees can go when they ignore routine procedure.
In 1981 Alexander Haig, then Secretary of State, announced that the United States had physical evidence of chemical warfare in Southeast Asia. Based on interviews with refugees, and the finding of toxin in a single sample of yellow rain, the State Department accused the Soviet Union of helping allies in Southeast Asia conduct chemical warfare, in violation of solemn treaties.
At first, only one voice was raised in question. By persistent inquiry, Matthew Meselson, a Harvard biologist, developed another explanation: Yellow rain is the excrement of jungle bees. It's yellow from digested pollen grains, and it rains down from swarms of bees too high to be seen. His theory turns out to be exactly right. The Government's own studies, still unpublished, prove that the source is bees, not bombs.
Yellow Rain Falls - New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/03/opinion/yellow-rain-falls.html)Conflicting Evidence Revives "Yellow Rain" Controversy(http://www.beeworks.com/gallery/images/Yellow_Rain.JPG)
Photo of "yellow rain" in snow. [Source: beeworks.com (http://www.beeworks.com/gallery/Page_3/index.html)] QuoteTwo conflicting pieces of evidence--a declassified CIA report and a yellow-green shower in India--may revive the 20-year-old debate over Yellow Rain, which remains a lingering mystery of the Cold War. On September 13, 1981, then-U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Soviet Union of supplying trichothecene mycotoxins (poisonous compounds made by fungal molds that infect grain), popularly known as Yellow Rain, to the Communist regimes in Vietnam and Laos for use in counterinsurgency warfare. Leading American scientists challenged the U.S. government's evidence for these allegations, however, and the controversy was never fully resolved. [See Jonathan B. Tucker, "The 'Yellow Rain' Controversy: Lessons for Arms Control Compliance," (http://cns.miis.edu/npr/pdfs/81tucker.pdf) (PDF format) Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2001.]
Conflicting Evidence Revives "Yellow Rain" Controversy (http://cns.miis.edu/stories/020805.htm)
Yellow Rain Falls In Tokyo? Pollen Excuse Exact Same As Chernobyl Yellow Rain Lie
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Yellow rain on window.QuoteSource: The Intel Hub
While the Japanese government continues to say that the yellow rain seen in Japan was simply"pollen," many have been reminded of a very similar occurrence after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Almost on que, the Japan Meteorological Agency has confirmed the rain to be pollen after receiving hundreds of calls from concerned citizens.
The ''yellow rain'' seen Wednesday in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo was caused by pollen, not radioactive materials as many residents had worried, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Thursday,reported the Japan Times.
That's right, according to so called experts, enough pollen to cause hundreds to report their findings, rained down on Tokyo at the same time as a devastating nuclear disaster has released high levels of radiation at least 20km from the nuclear plant.
This explanation has reminded many of the yellow rain that hit after the Chernobyl disaster.
Similar to the explanation in Japan, government officials claimed that the yellow radioactive rain that fell in Gomel, Belarus was merely pollen and nothing to worry about. We now know that was a bold faced lie
Yellow Rain Falls In Tokyo? (http://www.extremumspiritum.com/2011/03/25/yellow-rain-falls-in-tokyo-pollen-excuse-exact-same-as-chernobyl-yellow-rain-lie/)Yellow Rain Falls In Tokyo? Pollen Excuse Exact Same As Chernobyl Yellow Rain Lie(http://theintelhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Tokyos-Yellow-Rain-300x178.gif)
QuoteThe Intel Hub
March 24th, 2011
Women and children actually played in the puddles of yellow rain after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.
Remembering Chernobyl – Yellow Rain:
"We all jumped in the puddles with the yellow stuff. ... You don't see (it in) the air, it doesn't materialize. But when you see the yellow dust, you see radiation," Antonina Sergieff said.
The accident was originally caused by a small testing error that resulted in a chain reaction in which highly pressurized steam literally blew the top off of a nuclear reactor.
The result was the release of 100 more times radiation than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according to the United Nations issue brief on Chernobyl.
Among the unstable elements released were iodine-131, caesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239. Scientists say that exposure to such elements, especially in such high doses, impairs critical cellular functions and damages DNA.
When these elements first reached Sergieff 20 years ago, they came in the form of yellow rain.
It was not long after that residents in her hometown knew it wasn't simply "pollen" – which is what government officials assured them, she said.
Whether or not the yellow rain now falling in Japan is 100% radioactive remains to be seen.
With that being said, history DOES repeat itself and the way that Japan has covered up this disaster and used the exact same excuses as the ones used in Chernobyl indicates that we may be facing a much bigger disaster than Japanese officials are willing to admit.
Yellow Rain Falls In Tokyo? - The Intel Hub (http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/24/yellow-rain-falls-in-tokyo/)
Remembering Chernobyl - Yellow Rain (http://dailybruin.detroitsoftworks.com/index.php/article/2006/04/remembering-chernobyl) - The Daily BruinChernobyl-Style Yellow Rain Causes Panic In Japan
Paul Joseph Watson
March 24, 2011/b]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_z5yL1sJP4
Quote"After two days of rain in Tokyo I woke up to a thick coating of this yellow stuff all over my car. What looks like a glare between the glass and the body of the car is actually pollen. My first thought was ewe! Radioactive sludge from Fukushima, but no," states the comment associated with this You Tube clip.
"The (Japan Meteorological) agency received more than 200 inquiries Thursday morning about yellowish residue left on roofs and elsewhere by the rain, stirring concerns that radioactive substances had fallen after accidents caused by the March 11 quake and tsunami at a nuclear power plant around 220 kilometers northeast of Tokyo," reports Japan Today.
Officials later suggested the discoloration was caused by air-borne pollen falling with the rain. "The JMA believes the yellow patches are pollen, but has yet to confirm this," reports the Wall Street Journal, adding that the JMA received over 280 calls after residents in the Kanto region discovered yellow powder on the ground.
"A health official at the Tokyo metropolitan government also said there is a possibility that the rain contained radioactivity but not at a level to have had adverse effects on people's health," adds the Japan Today report.
Given the fact that Japanese authorities have been habitually deceptive about the Fukushima crisis from start to finish, assurances that the yellow powder was merely a result of air-borne pollen particles are dubious at best. With people living in Tokyo already being told that tap water is unsafe to drink, along with contaminated vegetables and milk from certain areas near Fukushima, the fact that they were panicked by yellow rain is unsurprising.
Although pollen can turn rain a yellow color, the fact that the phenomenon occurred a couple of hundred kilometers south of the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear plant has stoked alarm, and understandably so given the fact that victims of Chernobyl nuclear fallout in 1986 were also told by authorities that yellow rain was harmless pollen, when in fact it was deadly radioactive contamination.
Chernobyl-Style Yellow Rain Causes Panic In Japan (http://www.infowars.com/chernobyl-style-yellow-rain-causes-panic-in-japan/)(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_70unoNkdPWk/SLJ-KlypUWI/AAAAAAAAA98/aA_na-IXWvM/s400/tokyo+rain.JPG)
Radioactive yellow rain that fell in Tokyo and surrounding areas last night caused panic amongst Japanese citizens and prompted a flood of phone calls to Japan's Meteorological Agency . Credit: Truth Nexus (http://www.truthnexus.com/2011/03/chernobyl-style-yellow-rain-causes.html)Tokyo's Yellow Rain
Yellow Specks – Pollen or Radioactive ParticlesQuoteIt happened nearly 25 years ago. The rain water was yellow and it was due to radioactive particles spewing from the exploded Chernobyl nuclear power station.
All in all 190 tons of toxic material were expelled into the atmosphere.
According to Antonina Sergieff, who lived in Gomel, Belarus during the incident:
We all jumped in the puddles with the yellow stuff. ... You don't see (it in) the air, it doesn't materialize. But when you see the yellow dust, you see radiation
The Russian government, at that time, told the residents it was just simply "pollen".
Japan government says it was just "pollen"
25 years later, the same old lie was told to the Japanese people.
According to a report by Japan Times,
The ''yellow rain'' seen Wednesday in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo was caused by pollen, not radioactive materials as many residents had worried, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Thursday.
Do you believe it? The "experts" said that there were enough pollen to cause the yellow rain.
Tokyo's Yellow Rain - March 25, 2011 (http://alternetviews.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/tokyo-yellow-rain/)(http://gregd3.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/yellow-snow-r.jpg)
Raining Animals :o Yup all sorts of stuff falling from the sky... so I figured I need to add the animals too. You have all heard the phrase; "It's raining Cats and Dogs" right...
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A 19th-century English cartoon illustrating the phrase "it is raining cats and dogs" (and "pitchforks" too)QuoteAn "explanation" widely circulated by email claimed that in 16th-century Europe when peasant homes were commonly thatched, animals could crawl into the thatch and find shelter from the elements, and would fall out during heavy rain. - Raining Cats and Dogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals#.22Raining_cats_and_dogs.22)
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Raining snakes (oh the horror of it all!) during a Rennaissance storm. In: "Der Wunder-reiche Uberzug [sic] unserer Nider-Welt...." by Erasmus Francisci, 1680. Library Call Number QC859 .F72 1680.Raining Fish(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Gravure_de_pluie_de_poissons.jpg)
Pluie de poissons, gravure d'O. Magnus, 1555 - 1555 engraving of rain of fish(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Singapourfish.jpg)
"Among the many authenticated accounts of 'rains of fishes,' that which occurred at Singapore, in the Straits Settlements, on April 13, 1861, is probably the most remarkable. Following as earthquake which devastated a considerable portion of the city there came so extraordinary downpour, resulting in the accumulation of as much water as would be contained in a lake of considerable size. For three days and nights this rain came down in torrents, and in the pools which it formed upon the ground large numbers of fish were found." (11 October 1925). "Mystery of the 'Red Rains' in Japan". The Fresno Bee.List of Animal RainfallsFishSingapore, February 22, 1861
Olneyville, Rhode Island, May 15, 1900
Marksville, Louisiana, October 23, 1947
Bhanwad, Jamnagar, India, Oct 24, 2009
Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia, February 25 and 26, 2010,
Kerala, India, February 12, 2008
Loreto, Agusan del Sur, Philippines, January 13, 2012
Frogs and ToadsIshikawa Prefecture, Japan, June 2009 (Occurrences reported throughout the month)
Rakoczifalva, Hungary, 18–20 June 2010 (two times)
OthersJellyfish fell from the sky in Bath, England, in 1894
Worms dropped from the sky in Jennings, Louisiana, on July 11, 2007
Spiders fell from the sky in Salta Province, Argentina on April 6, 2007
Scottish school children are hit by worms during PE class on a cloudless day, April 1, 2011
Orange goo believed to be the eggs of an unknown species of invertebrate washed up on the shores of the Alaskan city of Kivalina on August 4, 2011
And these ones...
An unidentified animal (thought to be a cow) fell in California ripped to tiny pieces on August 1, 1869; a similar incident was reported in Olympian Springs, Bath County, Kentucky in 1876
:o Cattle mutalations falling from the sky in the 1800's? Now THAT is noteworthy 8)
Spooky Weather(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i0sc5VH5oxI/S6IMotYoaaI/AAAAAAAAAB8/1f93376a0tQ/s400/raining-fish.jpg)
Credit: sibongile mayaba (http://sibongilemayaba.blogspot.com/2010/03/fish-falling-from-sky.html)- On 23 October 1947 between 7 and 8 AM fish ranging from 2-9" in length fell from the sky at Marksville, LA. Fish averaged one per square yard in places. Several people were struck.
- On the morning of 28 June 1957, small fish, frogs, and crayfish fell by the thousands during a rainstorm at Magnolia Terminal near Thomasville, AL. Many of the fish were alive and placed in ponds and swimming pools. There was an F2 tornado 15 miles to the south near Whatley
- For a final chill, imagine this scene in your back yard: a cow flew a mile in a Tennessee tornado on April 16, 1998.
Spooky Weather (http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_7880.html)Fish Rain Near Jamnagar India - Friday, October 30, 2009QuoteMysterious "Fish rain" is not yet over. Before few days it was Bhanwad, and now its Bantiya village of Junagadh district.
Many Forest officials and Naturalist believed that the fishes must have been dropped by pelicans during migration, Jamnagar Fisheries dept. have ruled out the possibility that fish can get sucked in clouds and then fall as rain, they feel it as "absurd". For those who think it is not possible, check out the BBC Article on Fish Rain
Navagam (Bhanwad) villagers said that they saw about half a kilometer long and as much wide fish-laden clouds about 15 feet above the ground. This looks a bit outrageous though.
In Nawagam, fish fall was seen along with roads and markets and on terraces of several buildings.
Fish Rain Near Jamnagar (http://jamnagar-news.blogspot.com/2009/10/fish-rain-near-jamnagar.html) It's raining fish in the Northern Territory - February 28, 2010(http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/02/28/1225835/295659-fish.jpg)
The fish that reportedly fell from the sky in the Northern Territory / Christine BalmerIt's raining fish in the Northern Territory
QuoteWHILE the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by torrential rains, a Territory town has reportedly had fish falling from the sky.
The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine, The Northern Territory News reports.
Christine Balmer, who took the photos of the fish on the ground and in a bucket, said she had to pinch herself when she was told "hundreds and hundreds" of small white fish had fallen from the sky.
"It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night," she said,
"They fell from the sky everywhere.
"Locals were picking them up off the footy oval and on the ground everywhere.
"These fish were alive when they hit the ground."
Mrs Balmer, the aged care co-ordinator at the Lajamanu Aged Care Centre, said her family interstate thought she had lost the plot when she told them about the event.
"I haven't lost my marbles," she said, reassuring herself.
"Thank God it didn't rain crocodiles."
It's raining fish in the Northern Territory - News Limited, Australia (http://www.news.com.au/national/its-raining-fish-in-the-northern-territory-report/story-e6frfkvr-1225835295781)
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QuotePlentiful of Fish falling from the sky of Agusan del Sur, Philippines last friday.
Fish falling in the sky were 3 inches long and yellow in color with black spots. About 72 dropped from the sky.
The incident still under investigation how the incident happened. Witnessed said after 25 years of living in the area, it is his first time he experienced such incident.
Supernatural video explains how this things happened.
Fish Falls From The Sky Of Philippines (http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11303913-fish-falls-from-the-sky-of-philippines-video)Fish rain takes Kerala villagers by surprise - Feb 13, 2008QuoteThrissur, Feb 12 : After 'red rain', now it is 'fish rain' in Kerala. Residents of Kandanassery village near here were quite surprised when small fish started raining down towards the end of a sudden downpour on Tuesday night.
Two persons first noticed the phenomenon when the little slimy things started pattering on their body while they were returning home late in the night. As they thought that people would reject this as a mere fantasy or concocted tale unless there was a tangible proof, they picked up some of the bubbling fish and kept them in a water-filled bucket near the village library.
"There is no reason to disbelieve what the villagers say, as it is possible to have a scientific explanation for this", CK Rajan of the School of Marine Sciences of the Cochin University of Science and Technology said when asked about the phenomenon.
"When convective clouds are formed, it is possible that tiny aquatic organisms get lifted to the atmoshpere. They can survive suspended in the clouds so long as the clouds have moisture content," he said.
'Fish rain' takes Kerala villagers by surprise (http://www.financialexpress.com/news/fish-rain-takes-kerala-villagers-by-surprise/272219/)(http://blog.bekahbrunstetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/rain2.jpg)
When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell at Lincoln CenterIt's raining fish! It's normal - January 15, 2012QuoteThe story on "fish falling from the sky" in Agusan del Sur was generally met with disbelief across social networking sites. Some Facebook users, however, offered possible explanations – ranging from logical to supernatural.
Some said the fish might have fallen from a passing aircraft. Yet some believed the incident was a sign that the world is coming to an end.
But fish falling from the sky is not supernatural nor is it doomsday's beckoning. It actually has a name: Lluvia de Peces.
Residents of Loreto town in Agusan del Sur experienced this phenomenon Friday morning when dozens of 3-inch-long mudfish rained on them. PAGASA-Butuan Chief Engr. Lolit Binalay told Bombo Radyo a similar incident had happened in Lake Mainit in Agusan del Norte a few years back.
The same thing happened to a village in Powys, Wales in 2004 and to Folsom, California in 2006, among reported others.
How does it happen? Whirlwinds over water develop into waterspouts and become a swirling force that can suck in almost anything of the water's content: fish, eels, and even frogs.
According to American scientist Nilton Renno, fish can "fly" into the sky along with the waterspout. He told Scienceline.org that "even if the waterspout stops spinning, the fish in the cloud can be carried over land, buffeted up and down and around."
Loreto residents said they were surprised by the phenomenon because the sea and the river are far from their place. But according to Renno, fish can "swim" in the clouds and reach places until the wind can no longer support its flight, and that's when they come down.
The fish are sometimes taken so high into the atmosphere that they land dead.
Seventy-two of the fish that fell on Agusan del Sur survived the "journey" and have been placed by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources personnel in an aquarium for experts to study.
The Philippines may not hear of it often as it is an uncommon phenomenon. But 'fish rains' have been reported for centuries.
According to a BBC report, "fish are the most common thing to have rained down on you – other than rain itself, of course." People have heard of frogs, tomatoes, and lumps of coals falling from the sky in few bizarre instances.
Weather has been inclement in Agusan del Sur since the past week, marked with a downpour on Friday that BFAR believes may have triggered the formation of a waterspout.
Click here to watch a short documentary by the BBC – fish fly into the sky but "what goes up must come down." — LBG, GMA News
It's raining fish! It's normal (http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/244651/news/nation/it-s-raining-fish-it-s-normal) - LBG, GMA News[/color]
It's Raining Fish ~ Hallelujah!(http://goodnews.ws/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ethiopia-fish-431x300_thumb2.jpg)
QuoteMarch 1st, 2010 Raining fish nothing new for Outback. FISH raining from the sky is nothing new for one Territory community, a resident said yesterday. The Sunday Territorian yesterday reported how fish had been falling from the sky at Lajamanu, in the desert, 550km southwest of Katherine. But Baden Williams, from Hermannsburg in Central Australia, said he remembered fish falling on the sports oval when he was a child. "We had a big mob falling in Hermannsburg," he said. "As I was growing up there as a small boy, we saw a lot of fish, just falling around on the plain as we walked. "It's a normal thing, it's nothing unusual for us." Mr Williams, 45, said local children would go fishing on the oval in the desert town when fish had fallen. "I hear a lot of people talking about fish falling out of the sky – as I was getting older I saw it myself," he said. "Lots of kids fishing in the oval. Some made spears and threw the spear. "Last time I seen it was in '89. It was falling right in front of us, in the water, all the fish," he said. "They thought I was crazy, but I wasn't. "The ones that fall from the sky were 5, 10cm," Mr Williams said. Yesterday's story sparked readers around the Territory to report their experiences – and fears – of creatures falling from the sky.
It's Raining Fish ~ Hallelujah! (http://goodnews.ws/blog/2010/03/05/it%E2%80%99s-raining-fish-hallelujah/)
How can it rain fish? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3582802.stm) - BBC NewsBBC Supernatural (raining fish!!!!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKWfNSFXzqw
Mysterious tadpole rain has meteorologists baffled - June 19, 2009(http://www.tokyomango.com/.a/6a00d8341c5d3253ef0115703ac072970c-550wi)
Pink Tentacle reports on a series of strange weather patterns across Japan &mdash tadpoles and little fish have been seen falling from the sky randomly. Meteorologists and scientists alike are baffled by this, as there have been no other known anomalies or disturbances in the weather. Sounds like the beginning of a Haruki Murakami novel. Image Credit (http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2009/06/mysterious-tadpole-rain-has-meteorologists-baffled.html)Mysterious tadpole rain has meteorologists baffled Sky 'rains tadpoles' over Japan (http://media.weirdworm.com/img/stories/8-strange-things-that-fell-from-the-sky/tadpoles-and-frogs03.jpg)
QuoteThe sky has been raining tadpoles over a coastal region in Japan, according to reports.
By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo
5:36AM BST 10 Jun 2009
Residents, officials and scientists have been baffled by the apparent downpour of tadpoles in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture.
Clouds of dead tadpoles appear to have fallen from the sky in a series of episodes in a number of cities in the region since the start of the month.
In one incident, a 55-year-old man who was caught in a tadpole downpour described hearing a strange sound in the parking lot of a civic centre in the city of Nanao.
Upon further exploration, he found more than 100 dead tadpoles covering the windshields of cars in an area measuring 10 square metres.
Dead tadpole downpours were also reported by local officials 48 hours later in the city of Hakusan in the same prefecture.
The raining down of small creatures such as frogs and fish is a rare meteorological phenomenon that is reported from time to time across the world.
Scientists have widely attributed the surreal raining of animals to strong winds, storms and water sprouts sucking up creatures before depositing them further inland.
However, this explanation has not satisfied meteorologists in the Ishikawa region.
Officials at Kanazawa Local Meteorological Observatory told local media that they were unsure how the tadpoles had arrived as there had been no reports of strong winds at the time.
Another scientific explanation for raining animals relates to birds carrying the small creatures before dropping them as they fly overland.
However, dismissing this theory, a researcher at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Abiko told Kyodo news: "Crows eat tadpoles but if these were spat out (by the birds), a wider area should have been covered."
Sky 'rains tadpoles' over Japan - Friday 03 February 2012 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5491846/Sky-rains-tadpoles-over-Japan.html) - The Telegraph
Strange Storms—Frogs, Spiders and Fish (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2008/10/30/2007-11-09-sl--lluvia-aranias-web.jpg)
Throughout history many have witnessed showers of animals falling from the sky. This rain of spiders in Argentina was captured on film earlier this year. (Christian Oneto Gaona) - Credit: The Epoch Times (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/science/strange-storms-frogs-fish-insects-from-skies-6468.html)QuoteDuring a visit to Argentina's Salta province on April 6, 2007, Christian and his friends were hiking up San Bernardo peak when they discovered that the ground around them was covered with spiders. As they looked up they saw hundreds of spiders falling from the sky. Suddenly remembering that he had a camera, Christian snapped several shots of the falling arachnids. Although such occurrences have been noted for centuries, Christian's pictures represent the first documented evidence of this phenomenon.
A few years ago, strange rains of live frogs, fish, and many other animals were periodically reported throughout the country, but up to now nobody had the opportunity to photograph them. Because the past events happened so fast, and the rains were so heavy, photo documentation proved difficult to obtain. The conditions Christian experienced were different in that the spider rain occurred on a cloudless day, and involved a comparatively lighter subject, where the spiders fell slow enough to be captured on film.
Strange Storms—Frogs, Spiders and Fish - The Epoch Times (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/science/strange-storms-frogs-fish-insects-from-skies-6468.html)
It's Raining Spiders! - The Epoch Times (http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/7-10-12/60694.html)
Fresh or frozen fish?(http://flipside.theiet.org/weird/42/images/fish.jpg)
QuoteFresh or frozen fish often crop up in strange rains. The silver shower that rained down on Great Yarmouth in 2000 sprinkled lawns and paths with dead but fresh sprats. Back in 1894, it is said to have rained jellyfish on Bath. Similar fishy tales were reported in 2006 from Kerala in western India. The fishy rain is probably a result of strong winds, small whirlwinds and titchy tornadoes. As these travel over water any small creatures in their paths that are near the surface may be picked up and carried for several kilometers before being dumped along with the rain
Fresh or frozen fish? (http://flipside.theiet.org/weird/42/fishy.cfm)Worms Fall from the Sky in Jennings
7 July 2007(http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97047_5-Worms.jpg)
Jennings Police Department employee, Eleanor Beal was just crossing the street to go to work when something dropped from the sky. The sky wasn't falling. She says it was worms, large tangled clumps of them. Where they came from is a mystery, but some believe that a water spout spotted less than five miles away at that same time near Lacassine Bayou could have something to do with it. Image Source (http://www.oddee.com/item_97047.aspx)QuoteJennings Police Department employee, Eleanor Beal was just crossing the street to go to work when something dropped from the sky.
The sky wasn't falling. She says it was worms, large tangled clumps of them.
Beal says, "When I saw that they were crawling, I said, 'It's worms! Get out of the way!'"
She even called her co-worker outside to prove she wasn't making it up.
Sure enough, she saw worms, and globs of them.
Where they came from is a mystery, but some believe that a water spout spotted less than five miles away at that same time near Lacassine Bayou could have something to do with it.
Eleanor Beal says she hopes she doesn't see it again.
Worms Fall from the Sky in Jennings (http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=6771977)Papers:Showers of Organic Matter (http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/045/mwr-045-05-0217.pdf) - McAtee, Waldo L. (May 1917) - Monthly Weather Review 45 (5): 223. Retrieved 2009-01-26
Great balls of ice!(http://flipside.theiet.org/weird/42/images/icebomb.jpg)
QuoteIn 2001, 15 football-sized ice balls weighing up to four kg pelted southern Spain, damaging cars and buildings. since Then they have dropped elsewhere in the world. Scientists call them 'megacryometeors'. Scientists are leaning towards the view they are a result of global warming. They are similar in make up to hail but mega in scale.
The megacryometeors also seem to be getting bigger with reports of ice blocks weighing more than 25kg crashing through house roofs
Great balls of ice! (http://flipside.theiet.org/weird/42/icebomb.cfm)
Falling Ice Perplexes Scientists
Theories abound after 2 chunks land in state in a week April 15, 2006 QuoteThe skies are raining big chunks of ice, and experts ranging from scientists to federal investigators are scrambling to learn what's going on.
For the second time in a week, California was the victim of an aerial, icy assault, the latest being early Thursday when a chunk of ice the size of a microwave oven plunged out of a cloudless sky into the San Bernardino County town of Loma Linda. The ice punched through the metal roof of a recreation center, leaving a hole up to 2 1/2 feet wide, then fragmented into opaque, brilliant white chunks, one as big as a bowling ball. No one was hurt.
Two tennis players were batting a ball around outside the Drayson Center at Loma Linda University on Thursday morning when they heard a strange sound, said Rolland Crawford, Loma Linda Fire Department division chief.
"They described it as the sound an artillery shell would make -- shoosh, shoosh,'' he said. "They looked up. They didn't see the ice, nor did they see a plane.''
Falling ice perplexes scientists (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/04/15/MNGN5I9OUE1.DTL)
Huge Block Of Ice Falls From Sky In Oakland - April 15, 2006 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/04images/Ice/baice8so.jpg)
QuoteOAKLAND, Calif. -- Even the experts are having trouble explaining a solid block of ice that fell from the sky, crashed into earth and left behind a three-foot hole in the grass.
The ice fell at Bushrod Park in Oakland early Saturday when homeowner Jacek Purat of Berkeley was waiting nearby to show apartments to prospective renters.
"It was totally amazing. ... I saw this flash, like a streak. Then I saw this explosion, like a big boom! I came over and it (the field) was all covered with ice. Some were this big," Purat said, making a head-size circle with his two hands.
Brooks and Judith Mencher said they were standing on their back porch near the park when they heard a sound like a very loud rocket. "It kind of went 'whoosh!"' Brooks Mencher said.
The impact "knocked turf 20 feet away," according to Oakland Police Sgt. Ron Lighten. No one was injured.
Lt. Charles Glass of the Oakland Fire Hazardous Materials Team said the ice was pure water. "It didn't come from a toilet on a plane or anything like that."
Glass said the ice that firefighters pulled from the hole was about the same size of the hole -- three by three feet and two and a half feet deep.
Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer (http://www.ktvu.com/news/8575846/detail.html)
More Goop - Jelly Like Substance(http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97047_2-Jelly.jpg)
QuoteIn 2009, a jelly rain fell in Scotland. Scientists commissioned by National Geographic carried out tests on, but they have so far failed to find any DNA in it. Theories for the origins of "star jelly" abound, one of the most plausible theories is that star jelly is regurgitated frog or toad ovaries, vomited by buzzards or herons as it is indigestible, others refer to the remnants of a meteor shower or even a fungus
A star jelly rain in Scotland (http://www.oddee.com/item_97047.aspx)'Jelly' mysteryBBC Scotland Outdoors has a bunch of Jelly finds that they do not think are slime molds
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/img/galleries/jelly/2_w606_h341.jpg)
Steve Chambers found some mysterious 'jelly' while walking in the Pentland Hills. He asked BBC Radio Scotland Out of Doors to help identify the substance. A close up photo of Steve's find. There have been many suggestions as to what this could be, including frog spawn, 'star snot' remnants of recent meteorite showers, fungus and jellyfish.(http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/img/galleries/jelly/3_w606_h341.jpg)
Stewart Johnston found this on a track in Glencoe, while halfway up a Munro in 2007. He says that he doubts it was slime mould since it was on disturbed ground.(http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/img/galleries/jelly/5_w606_h341.jpg)
Many people, including Sarah Longrigg who sent this picture, suggested slime moulds as an explanation. An algae expert consulted by BBC Scotland was clear the sample he saw was not a plant-like organism.(http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/img/galleries/jelly/9_w606_h341.jpg)
Thelma and Trevor Bevis sent us a photo of jelly that has been appearing at the same place near their pond for several years. This photo was taken in January 2008.(http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/img/galleries/jelly/10_w606_h341.jpg)
They live close to Moffat in Dumfriesshire and are surrounded by farmland. The jelly appeared again in October 2008, although this time there were ''small black and white bead-like masses'' attached.Above images from BBC Scotland Outdoors - Jelly Mystery (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/galleries/jelly/)
Red Rain
A rain of blood in Colombia(http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97047_7-Blood.jpg)
QuoteIn 2008 a red rain that was certified by a local bacteriologist to be blood fell on a small community of La Sierra, Chocó. A sample was collected and taken to the nearest town, Bagadó, where it was analyzed. The priest of the hamlet says it's a sign from God that people will have to change their sinful ways.
A rain of blood in Colombia (http://www.oddee.com/item_97047.aspx)
Lluvia de sangre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCDAIRd5U4
Rain of BloodQuoteThe image of a rain of blood falling from the skies seems worthy of a horror movie, but the red rain is a meteorological phenomenon has been observed since ancient Roman times. Despite the horror expressed by those who have suffered the precipitation of red drops, these rains are not really made of blood. The reddish hue that occasionally make the raindrops due to dust or sand that is raised by high intensity winds, rising to mix with rain clouds and then precipitation of red dye. The red rain phenomenon is quite common in Europe due to dust in the clouds coming from the Saharan dust storms.
The ten most bizarre weather (http://goo.gl/scpzV)
Red Rain
Mystery of the "Red Rains" in Japan
The Fresno Bee of Fresno (California), 11 October 1925(http://rr0.org/data/1/9/2/5/10/11/MysteryOfTheRedRainsInJapan/JapanRedRain.jpg)
The "red rain" in Japan caused great consternation among the natives, who were terror-stricken by the strange phenomenon QuoteWHEN a recent dispatch from Tokio brought news of the fall of a "red rain" in the interior of Japan—"a rain which appeared to partake of the nature of blood rather than that of water"—there were many who attributed the phenomenon either to the everwrought imagination of the natives or took it for granted that, in some way, red volcanic dust had become mixed with cloud moisture and the "red rain" had resulted.
But the investigations of a number of meteorologists and others who are interested in running down phenomena of this kind developed two facts very clearly. In the first place, the "red rain" had fallen. It was no figment of the imagination. Secondly, the "rain" was not of the ordinary consistency of water, but considerably thicker—a thick, viscous liquid, that clung and stuck, instead of running off in a solid stream.
There have been numbers of other cases in which "red rains" have fallen, and these are by no means the only unusual precipitations from the sky, for the list of "riddles" of this kind runs well up into the hundreds and embraces objects all the way from tiny globules of gelatinous matters to rocks and stones in a considerable size which have either rained down from a cloudless sky or have fallen in the midst of violent storms.
Mystery of the "Red Rains" in Japan (http://rr0.org/data/1/9/2/5/10/11/MysteryOfTheRedRainsInJapan/index.html)
A cow that fell from the sky in Japan(http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97047_8-Cow2.jpg)
QuoteIn 1997 a Japanese fishing trawler was rescued in the Sea of Japan. They claimed that a cow fell out of the sky, struck the boat, causing it to sink. The crew members were immediately put in jail. About 2 weeks later the Russian Air Force informed the Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had stolen a cow thinking they would have beef for some time. Of course the cow was not fond of its close surroundings and began to thrash about. To save the aircraft and themselves, at about 30,000 feet, the crew shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they were flying over the sea of Japan.
A cow that fell from the sky in Japan (http://www.oddee.com/item_97047.aspx)
Cow falls from sky, sinks boatQuoteIn 1997, the crew of a Japanese fishing boat was pulled from the Sea of Japan after clinging to the boat's wreckage for several hours. They were immediately arrested, however, after authorities interrogated them about the boat's fate. To a man, they claimed a cow had fallen from the sky, apparently coming from nowhere, and struck the boat amidships, resulting in a huge hole and its rapid sinking.
The crew remained in prison for several weeks until Japanese authorities were contacted by several highly embarrassed Russian air force officials. It turned out that the crew of a Russian cargo plane had stolen a cow that wandered near their Siberian airfield and forced it onto their plane before they took off for a flight home. Once airborne, the cow apparently panicked and starting rampaging through the cargo hold, causing the crew also to panic because it was affecting the plane's stability. They solved the problem by shoving the cow out of the hold while crossing the Sea of Japan at 30,000 feet.
Unfortunately, following Rules 5 (Look-out), and 7 (Risk of collision) won't keep you out of trouble when the danger is airborne!
Original Source: Australian Financial Review, 16 May 2000
Cow falls from sky, sinks boat (http://www.rulesmaster.com/news/view/11)"A cow fell from the sky and it sank the fishing boat"
Friday May 2, 1997, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaQuoteThe unusual case is contained in a report by the German Embassy in Moscow · The cow had been stolen and carried on a plane · But the animal out of control and the thieves had to throw him overboard
A cow fell from the sky (http://edant.clarin.com/diario/1997/05/02/e-04801d.htm)
Multi-coloured snow falls over Siberia(http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97047_6-Snow.jpg)
In the Omsk region, about 1,400 miles east of Moscow, smelly orange, yellow and green snow fell in 2007Quote02/02/2007 - 08:47:58
Russian emergency workers have flown to a Siberian region where smelly orange, yellow and green snow fell.
The Emergency Situations Ministry said officials in the Omsk region, about 1,400 miles east of Moscow, had warned local residents not use the snow for drinking or other purposes, and to keep domestic animals from it.
The ministry said the snow, which fell on Wednesday afternoon, was yellow, green and orange and had an oily texture and unpleasant smell.
More than 27,000 people live in the area where the snow fell, but no health problems have yet been reported, the ministry said.
RIA-Novosti quoted an emergency official in the adjacent region of Tyumen, west of Omsk, as saying coloured snow had fallen there as well.
Multi-coloured snow falls over Siberia (http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/?jp=CWSNGBKFGBQL)
Orange Snow in Omsk, Russia - Feb 2, 2007(http://englishrussia.com/images/orange_snow2.jpg)
QuoteYesterday a strange phenomena happened in Omsk region Russia. Pretty vast territory of Omsk region was covered with a snow that had an unusual color. It was orange. Now we have a few photos, mainly screenshots from Russian TV channels. There is still no one exact explanation about the origin of orange color of this snow.
More high quality photos of the Martian like snowy terrain would follow shortly. According to Russian officials the orange snow doesn't contain any chemical byproducts or any other elements dangerous to human.
Orange Snow in Omsk, Russia - English Russia (http://orange%20snow%20in%20omsk,%20russia)
Quote from: zorgon on January 28, 2012, 10:16:40 PM
Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the sky in New York
21st January 2011
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Goo-ross! Snow with a strange greenish-yellow cast to it is seen piled outside the door of a home in Snyder, New York
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Mellow yellow: Unnaturally coloured icicles hang from the roof of another house. The FAA has ruled out 'blue ice' - frozen human excrement falling from passing airplanes
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Have a nice drip: More strangely-coloured goo - but where did it come from?
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'm not lovin' it: One woman has theorised that the goo could be from birds eating fast food litter - such as leftover McDonald's French fries
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/21/article-1349151-0CD88993000005DC-819_634x397.jpg)
For the birds: Ornithologists at Cornell agree the goo could be bird droppings... but scientists are still doing tests
Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the sky in New York - Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349151/Mystery-greenish-yellow-goo-falls-sky-New-York.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)
Green/Yellow Goo Falls from skies (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread653819/pg1) - ATS Thread
Mystery Goo Turns Icicles Green and Yellow in Snyder, N.Y. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/splatterings-green-goo-fall-sky-snyder-ny/story?id=12649849#.TyiVXoE_cyk) - ABC Video Report
they ever identify the Orange Goo up North,
that had a vertbrate,
but could not be identified, by cdc?
ya its got a vertibra but we dont know of what.
ohh and its Orange, like Goo,
eggs i guess,
that one?
Seems that this has happened before, and now it has been posed it may be a form of et life, which fell from space....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8-dR9bZ13E&feature=plcp[youtube]
I thougt it fit in good with the earlier thread about the NASA lawsuit, as it could be similar to the same type of life they encountered in the atmosphere.
Cheers!
Strange Red Rain Falls in India (13th July 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8-dR9bZ13E
Weird red rain in India panics people . . . 'blood red' rain falls (Photos)Quote * From July 25 to September 23, 2001, this mysterious "blood red rain" sporadically fell in heavy downpours in Kerala.
* In summer of 2006, the mysterious red rains fell a second time and gained widespread attention.
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Godfrey Louis, Ph.D. and Santosh Kumar hypothesize, "The red cells found in the red rain in Kerala are considered as a possible case of extraterrestrial life form."
Photo credit: Courtesy of Louis & KumarQuoteTwo scientists, Godfrey Louis, Ph.D. and Santhosh Kumar of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, proposed a controversial hypothesis, "The mysterious red color in the rain is caused by unidentified life form that does not have DNA."
In August 2008, they presented their case at an astrobiology conference:
"The red cells found in the red rain in Kerala, India are now considered as a possible case of extraterrestrial life form. The molecular composition of these cells is yet to be identified."
However, Louis and Kumar have not yet been explained how dust from a meteor could continue to fall over the same area - despite changing climatic conditions and wind patterns - for not only a couple of months, but for more than a decade.
The Examiner (http://www.examiner.com/article/weird-red-rain-india-panics-people-blood-red-rain-falls)(http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_full_width_scaled/hash/5f/29/5f297ead146ee2742cb9788225b6fef9.png)
In July 2012, mysterious red rain fell for about 15 minutes in Kerala, India, filling courtyards with blood red rainwater and staining people's clothes pink. Credit: Schneider, Louis, Kumar(http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_full_width_scaled/hash/43/7d/1341696630_9243_Map.png)
Mysterious, purple spheres found in the desertQuoteReporter: Liz Kotalik Jan. 30, 2013
TUCSON (KGUN-9) - It was a normal Sunday in Vail for Geradine Vargas. Normal, until she and her husband stumbled upon something kind of weird.
"We were taking photos around the area and we just.... I mean, how could you miss this?" Geradine said. "It was just like glittering in the sun."
Thousands of tiny, purple-hued spheres piled in the middle of nowhere.
"It's just one of those things that you've never seen before."
They were watery, some where translucent, and the pile was completely isolated. Gerardine was amazed, and she wanted answers.
"We did email a friend of ours who's a zoologist, but she didn't know. I mean, she didn't seem to recognize what it was."
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Photo by Gerardine Vargas (http://media.jsonline.com/images/Purple+spheres+1.jpg)
Photo by Gerardine Vargas QuoteSo, she sent KGUN-9 pictures of the spheres, hoping we could find some answers.
We checked out the mysterious spheres for ourselves, and learned they were still there. They're like gooey marbles that ooze out a water substance when squished. They roll, they shine, and they're out of this world.
Geradine was dying to know what they were, and so were we
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Photo by Gerardine Vargas QuoteWe spoke to Darlene Buhrow, director of marketing at Tucson Botanical Gardens, who's husband is a botanist. He said if these are something naturally occurring, they could be a slime mold or jelly fungus.
We've received tons of calls into the newsroom tonight from viewers who think they are a product like Deco Beads, which are tiny, colored, water-filled spheres that keep plants hydrated.
But thousands of them? In the middle of the desert?
No one is positive what these spheres are, and for now, all we can say for certain is that they're definitely out of the ordinary.
Mysterious, purple spheres found in the desert - News Video at Link (http://www.kgun9.com/news/local/189113371.html)
Mysterious Purple Spheres Found in the Desert - Alien Eggs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyhgZCmxjmY
So is it just me or does anyone want to hurt dumb newscasters?
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ok.., looks like frog or toad egg mass...
could have been blown out of a water source to the desert..
anyway i found this..interesting
Star jellyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search "Star jelly" (also called astromyxin, astral jelly, pwdr sêr, star rot, or star shot) is a gelatinous substance that, according to folklore, is deposited on the earth during meteor showers.[1][2] Today, it is generally believed to be nostoc.
Star jelly is described as a translucent or grayish-white gelatin that tends to evaporate shortly after having "fallen."[3] Explanations have ranged from the material's being the remains of frogs, toads, or worms, to the byproducts of cyanobacteria, to the paranormal.[2][4][5][6]
Reports of the substance date back to the 14th century and have continued to the present day.[6][7]
HistoryThere have been reports of pwdr sêr (also pwdre sêr or pydredd sêr, Welsh for 'star-rot') for centuries.[8] John of Gaddesden (1280–1361),[9] for example, mentions stella terrae (Latin for 'star of the earth' or 'earth-star') in his medical writings, describing it as "a certain mucilaginous substance lying upon the earth" and suggesting that it might be used to treat abscesses.[7] A fourteenth-century Latin medical glossary has an entry for uligo, described as "a certain fatty substance emitted from the earth, that is commonly called 'a star which has fallen'".[10] Similarly, an English-Latin dictionary from around 1440 has an entry for 'sterre slyme' with the Latin equivalent given as assub (a rendering of Arabic ash-shuhub, also used in medieval Latin as a term for a 'falling' or 'shooting' star).[11]
The Oxford English Dictionary lists a large number of other names for the substance, with references dating back to the circa-1440 English-Latin dictionary entry mentioned above: star-fallen, star-falling, star-jelly, star-shot, star-slime, star-slough, star-slubber, and star-slutch.[12]
The slime mold Enteridium lycoperdon is called "caca de luna" (Moon's excrement) by the locals in the state of Veracruz in Mexico.[13]
i do know a little about fungi and it doesn't look like any slime mold i have ever come across
what is star jelly
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-star-jelly.htm
some pics here..don't look like the purple masshttp://www.assaultweb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=129241
ok..wild thought maybe it's sodium polyacrylate
are there any diaper factories around there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXEdA-o56RQ
or
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http://www.amazon.com/Packages-Water-Gel-Crystal-Soil/dp/B003VW4636
Product Features
Contains 5 Bags with Colors: Green, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Red, Clear
Plant roots are able to absorb water from the crystal balls
Crystal soil balls that contains tiny holes (cannot be seen by bare eyes) that hold air and and water droplets
Grow plants without the hassles of keeping dirts
Directions: 1. Empy the contents of one bag into 0.5 liters of water. 2 Let contents soak in water for approximately 8 hours. 3 Use a strainer to drain excess water and place crystal balls in a container of your choice. 4 Wash off all the soil fro mthe plants' roots and place in teh container with the foots fully covered by the balls. 5 Add water as need to the balls all they shrink
ok..i'm done :o ::)
anon161569
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Actually, scientific evidence from various top sources supports the possibility of star jelly being biological and extraterrestrial in origin, e.g. the research currently being done at cardiff university wales. even skeptical biologists in the know have to admit that this is not something to be dismissed.
anon152091
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LOL. this mysterious phenomenon was been documented way when planes and chemtrails didn't even exist yet. --alien invader
Worth considering ;)
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yellow Slime molds Seems they include them wit this stuff :D
Looks like everyone took a good stab at it trying to figure out what it is. Anyone near this area that could go get a sample?
Haven't had an entry in this department for some time... but here is one...
Pink Snow Surprises Residents In Karaghanda
17 August, 2013(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-shonG30vCqE/TjxYRLdE1VI/AAAAAAAAAIs/elfArIFt8aQ/s320/Pink.jpg)
Pink snow surprised residents in Karaghanda, Kazakhstan,QuoteSummer is not yet over, but this does not prevent strange snow for showing up in some parts of the world.
Residents in Karaghanda, Kazakhstan witnessed extraordinary snowfall on August 13. Snow falling from the sky was pink!
Meteorologists predicted rainfall on that day, but snow fell instead. According to weather experts this is a normal and natural phenomenon that cannot always be predicted, just like a tornado or storm.
Extreme weather conditions have surprised us before. We have seen on a couple of occasions how lakes and seas have suddenly turned red.
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http://www.messagetoeagle.com/pinksnowkaraghanda.php#.UhEYvNLUnjK
Interesting how one link leads to so many others :D
Wonderful Things: Don't Eat the Pink Snow
By Jennifer Frazer | July 9, 2013QuoteIf you stumbled one midsummer on the melting snow in the image below, what would you imagine produced the strange color?
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Translated German caption: "Snow area with Chlamydomonas nivalis (snow blood) near Abisko (Northern Sweden)" Creative Commons Ökologix. Click image for license and source.QuoteHere's another example with a pinker hue, from further out.
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Creative Commons Will Beback. QuoteHere's a poorer example that I stumbled on myself on July 4, 2011 on Long's Peak in Colorado:
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QuoteWhen an 1818 British expedition led by Captain John Ross tasked with finding the Northwest Passage stumbled onto "extensive patches" of this stuff near Greenland's Cape York in Baffin Bay, the Times of London confidently declared it to be iron-nickel meteorite detritus. In reality, the Scottish botanist Robert Brown — he of Brownian motion fame — suggested in an appendix to Ross's mission report that same year the color could be due to an alga, a photosynthetic microbe. And it was.
If there's one thing Earth has taught us, it's that if a surface or substrate is ever wet, something will grow. And, despite near-zero temperatures, acidity, solar irradiation, and what must be frankly admitted to be minimal nutritional value, snow is no exception. Over 60 species of algae alone dwell there, and no doubt more await discovery. Scientists just announced this May the discovery of a new species from Colorado snow that they suggest could be a source of biofuel feedstock for northern climates where other algae cannot thrive.
By far, the most common species of snow alga is Chlamydomonas nivalis, which colors snow red or pink. With their pair of front-mounted flagella, they ply the films of water found in melting snow drifts. Midsummer is the best time of the year to see them, if you live in a high-altitude or Arctic clime with snowbanks that stubbornly refuse to yield to the sun.
Yet surprsingly, active C. nivalis cells are not pink when you look at them under the microscope. Here's what a different species of Chlamydomonas looks like swarming in water to give you the idea.
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QuoteHere's a closeup alongside a slinky green alga called Euglena. The homely, roundish cells are Chlamydomonas, and you can see both their paired flagella and the cells' various organelles (aren't you glad our bodies aren't transparent?):
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QuoteThe cells know which way to drive in their snowbank because they can see. Most species of Chlamydomonas — and I assume C. nivalis is no exception — possess a light-sensitive eyespot containing rhodopsin. Versions of the same ancient chemical are found (to cite but a few examples) in your own eyes, in sea-faring protists called dinoflagellates, and in salt-loving photosynthetic archaea living in natron flats, who use it not to see but to make supper.
C. nivalis is a green alga — the group that gave rise to land plants, and includes the desmids I discussed here last month. And as you saw, the vegetative cells of Chlamydomonas nivalis are green while growing. So how is it that they color snow pink?
Since, like lichens, these algae must contend with intense UV bombardment, they need sunscreen to protect their light-harvesting molecule chlorophyll, and lots of it. They need it most in their resting stage — the one that might have to survive for a long time on top of a snow drift or soil prior to next fall's snows. That stage is the zygote. In many species of snow algae, this single-celled, immobile product of mating is packed with carotenoids (click here for some nice images).
Carotenoids are brightly-colored UV-absorbing pigments. This huge class of biochemicals includes beta-carotene. When consumed and transported to your eyes, beta carotene performs a similar job for you by absorbing UV, thereby protecting your retina from diseases like macular degeneration. Like the carotenoids found in fruits and vegetables, the chemicals also lend zygotes an orange, red or rusty hue under the microscope.
Midummer snow reveals its chromatic algal payload most readily on permanent snow fields in sunny, dry areas; rain tends to wash them away. C. nivalis zygotes are quite red, so as melting, erosion, or evaporation concentrates algae at the surface, the snow blushes.
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Joyce Gellhorn says these self-reinforcing pink pits are called "sun cups". Creative Commons Will Beback. Click image for license and source.QuoteNot all snow algae color snow pink. Green snow can be found in layers below the surface if you shovel into it, usually near tree canopies in alpine forests. One of these algae, Chloromonas brevispina, makes green zygotes and usually live in areas exposed to considerably less ultraviolet light than their red kin. More rarely, algae color snow orange, as you can see in the footprint above.
For obvious reasons, pink snow is sometimes called "watermelon snow". Oddly enough, it's even said to smell a bit like watermelon. So why shouldn't you find out if it tastes that way too? According to botanist Joyce Gellhorn's 2002 book Song of the Alpine, there's a very good reason: in addition to being a tantalizingly refreshing-looking on a hot day after a long hike where a snow cone would be just the ticket, it's also a laxative.
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About the Author: Jennifer Frazer is a AAAS Science Journalism Award-winning science writer. She has degrees in biology, plant pathology/mycology, and science writing, and has spent many happy hours studying life in situ.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2013/07/09/wonderful-things-dont-eat-the-pink-snow/
Watermelon Snow
A Strange Phenomenon Caused by Algal Cells of The Chlorophyta(http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/pinksn5b.jpg)
A field of pink snow in the alpine Sierra Nevada of central California. In addition to snow algae (Chamydomonas nivalis), the snow contains leaves (needles) and pollen of the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis).QuoteHave you ever hiked across an alpine meadow or traversed a steep talus slope in high mountain ranges and noticed pinkish patches, or streaks of red, on the snowbanks? This phenomenon is especially common during the summer months in the Sierra Nevada of California where snow has lingered from winter storms, mainly at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet. Compressing the snow with your boot leaves a distinct footprint the color of watermelon pulp. The snow even has a fresh watermelon scent and is sometimes called "watermelon snow." Walking in pink snow often results in a temporary discoloration of your clothing, such as bright red soles and pinkish pant cuffs. There are unconfirmed reports that consuming "generous quantities" of pink snow may cause diarrhea, a rather distressing situation above timberline.
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Packs of colorful pink snow are a common sight during summer on alpine slopes of California's Sierra Nevada. Photo taken near the Dana Plateau in Yosemite National Park at about 12,000 feet elevation.More here...
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Watermelon Snow
Watermelon snow, also called snow algae, red snow, or blood snow, is Chlamydomonas nivalis, a species of green algae containing a secondary red carotenoid pigment (astaxanthin) in addition to chlorophyll. Unlike most species of fresh-water algae, it is cryophilic (cold-loving) and thrives in freezing water. Its specific epithet, nivalis, is from Latin and refers to snow.
This type of snow is common during the summer in alpine and coastal polar regions worldwide, such as the Sierra Nevada of California. Here, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet (3,000–3,600 m), the temperature is cold throughout the year, and so the snow has lingered from winter storms. Compressing the snow by stepping on it or making snowballs leaves it looking red. Walking on watermelon snow often results in getting bright red soles and pinkish pant cuffs.
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Green algal cell (Chlamydomonas nivalis) responsible for red coloration of mountain snow packs. This organism utilizes pollutants carried in snow as a food source and reduces the acidity of meltwater. Thin section observed using TEM. Magnified 10,000X. (TEM) Plate #.
The first accounts of watermelon snow are in the writings of Aristotle. Watermelon snow has puzzled mountain climbers, explorers, and naturalists for thousands of years, some speculating that it was caused by mineral deposits or oxidation products that were leached from rocks.
In May 1818, four ships sailed from England to search for the Northwest Passage and chart the Arctic coastline of North America. Severe weather made them finally turn the ships back, but the expedition made valuable contributions to science. Captain John Ross noticed crimson snow that streaked the white cliffs like streams of blood as they were rounding Cape York on the northwest coast of Greenland. A landing party stopped and brought back samples to England. The Times wrote about this discovery on December 4, 1818:
"Captain Sir John Ross has brought from Baffin's Bay a quantity of red snow, or rather snow-water, which has been submitted to chymical analysis in this country, in order to the discovery of the nature of its colouring matter. Our credulity is put to an extreme test upon this occasion, but we cannot learn that there is any reason to doubt the fact as stated. Sir John Ross did not see any red snow fall; but he saw large tracts overspread with it. The colour of the fields of snow was not uniform; but, on the contrary, there were patches or streaks more or less red, and of various depths of tint. The liquor, or dissolved snow, is of so dark a red as to resemble red port wine. It is stated, that the liquor deposits a sediment; and that the question is not answered, whether that sediment is of an animal or vegetable nature. It is suggested that the colour is derived from the soil on which the snow falls: in this case, no red snow can have been seen on the ice.
"A follow-up article three days later erroneously concluded that the coloration was caused by meteoric iron deposits:
"Some doubt has been expressed as to the red snow observed by Sir John Ross and his associates in the newly discovered arctic region; but when it is known that the iron which was also found there, lying on the surface, in heaps, and in considerable quantities, was all meteoric, the doubt will cease, and the fact will admit of an easy solution. Sir John Ross brought home small specimens of this iron, which has been subjected by Mr. Professor Brande to the usual tests, and it is found to be precisely of the kind of the meteoric stones that occasionally fall in more southern latitudes. It is impregnated with nickel, which is never found in earth iron. That, therefore, which loads the atmosphere with the fluid which composes this meteoric iron, serves to colour the snow; iron being found to be the colourist of all metallic as well as vegetable matter. "
When Ross published his account of the voyage in 1818, it contained a botanical appendix by Robert Brown. In it, Brown tentatively attributed the red snow to an alga.
The phenomenon was also reported from the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth century and subsequently recorded scientifically from a snowpatch in the Cairngorm Mountains in 1967.
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Chlamydomonas nivalis
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Unusual watermelon snow pits, superimposed with an orange-ish bootprint
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Tracks made by sliding on watermelon snow in Utah's Uinta Mountains
Chlamydomonas nivalis is a green alga that owes its red color to a bright red carotenoid pigment, which protects the chloroplast from intense visible and also ultraviolet radiation, as well as absorbing heat, which provides the alga with liquid water as the snow melts around it. Algal blooms may extend to a depth of 25 cm (10 inches), with each cell measuring about 20 to 30 micrometers in diameter, about four times the diameter of a human red blood cell. It has been calculated that a teaspoon of melted snow contains a million or more cells. The algae sometimes accumulate in "sun cups", which are shallow depressions in the snow. The carotenoid pigment absorbs heat and as a result it deepens the sun cups, and accelerates the melting rate of glaciers and snowbanks.
During the winter months, when snow covers them, the algae become dormant. In spring, nutrients, increased levels of light and meltwater, stimulate germination. Once they germinate, the resting cells release smaller green flagellate cells which travel towards the surface of the snow. Once the flagellated cells reach the surface, they may lose their flagellae and form aplanospores, or thick-walled resting cells, or they may function as gametes, fusing in pairs to form zygotes.
Many species feed on C. nivalis, including protozoans such as ciliates, rotifers, nematodes, ice worms and springtails.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_snow
Pink Snow Hits Buffalo
Posted: 03/20/10QuoteBUFFALO, N.Y. — Some snow in a Buffalo neighborhood turned a deep shade of pink after a cloud of powder was released during demolition of a business that used to make food coloring. As surprised parents and pet owners wondered whether to ban outdoor play, state health and environmental officials collected samples.
A demolition contractor said a pipe that contained about five pounds of residual red dye No. 40 ruptured at a building being torn down near the former Buffalo Color plant Thursday afternoon. John Yensan of Ontario Specialty Contracting says powder was carried by the wind across homes, cars and streets.
Authorities said the dye didn't appear to pose a health problem.
A water truck was sent in to clean up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/18/pink-snow-hits-buffalo-vi_n_427221.html
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Yangtze River In China Turns Red
9 September, 2012QuoteWe have seen on a couple of occasions how lakes and seas have suddenly turned red.
In August a lake in Southern France unexpectedly changed color and shortly before that the strange appearance of Azov Sea stunned residents who saw how the water had turned red....
Next on the list is the Yangtze, the longest and largest river in China and the third longest river in the world.
Earlier this week, the Yangtsze River, near the city of Chongquing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River surprised residents by becoming orange-red. Some people were so amazed that they collected samples in water bottles.
Others like a fisherman ignored the phenomena went about his daily business as if nothing had happened.
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Yangtze River has changed its color. Image credit: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images(http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/chinariverred4.jpg)
Some people continued to work as if nothing had happened.
Image credit: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty ImagesQuotehe cause is currently unknown, but it not the first time a river has turned red in China. Last December, the Jian River in the city of Luoyang, in the north Henan province, turned red after becoming polluted by a powerful dye.
The dye was being dumped into the city's storm drain network by two illegal dye workshops.
Officials raided the factories to shut them down, and then disassembled their machinery.
According to chapter 16, verse 4 of the Bible's book of Revelations, one of the signs that Armageddon is near will be an angel pouring a bowl into the rivers, turning them into blood.
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Whatever it was that dyed the river was almost orange in color.
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Many see this as a sign of end times.
Image credit: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty ImagesQuote"And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood." (Book of Revelation2, 16:4)
This and other similar events have frightened many people who consider the change of color as a sign of the end days and fulfillment of the Biblical prophecy.
Officials are reportedly investigating the cause.
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The Yangtze river washes up on and stains a tiled floor.
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he Yangtze river is a very unusual sight today....
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QuoteThe McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are considered one of the least hospitable places on Earth; NASA has used them to simulate conditions that might prevail on Mars. The area gets little precipitation, and the water that is present is locked into ancient, thick glaciers that have been in the area for longer than modern humans have existed. Almost by definition, any living things that manage to scrape out an existence in this environment are going to be pretty unusual. But scientists are now reporting the discovery of an ecosystem buried under the ice of one of these glaciers that stretches the definition of unusual well past the breaking point.
Nobody would be likely to suspect that there is any life underneath the ice, which is hundreds of meters thick in the area, if it weren't for the striking red ice erupting from the glacier's terminus, giving the formation the name Blood Falls. That red color comes from iron concentrated in the ice, which exists primarily in the Fe(II) state favored when oxygen is absent. Thanks to a release event that occurred in 2004, researchers have projected where that iron originates, and suggested its likely source. They've also figured out what the environment at that source looks like.
It seems that the red ice has travelled from a pocket that exists four kilometers from the glacier's end, at a site where the ice is over 400m thick. Based on the chemical composition of the material trapped in the ice, scientists think that the pocket encases the remains of an arm of the ocean that extended into the area during the Pilocene, which ended over 1.8 million years ago. Once encased under the glacier, that pocket became hyper-saline and completely devoid of free oxygen. Consistent with its total isolation from the surface, the amount of 14C in the sample is extremely low.
Despite the fact that the liquid water is below the freezing point of pure water, there appears to be a microbial community that has called it home. Consistent with an origin in the oceans, three quarters of the DNA sequences obtained from Blood Falls appear to come from relatives of marine organisms. Most of the clones come from within the Proteobacteria, and the closest cultured relatives of many of these metabolize sulfur and iron (there are also high levels of sulfur present in the brine).
Unlike sulfur-powered communities present at undersea vents, there's little indication of a hydrogen sulfide metabolism present in the ice at Blood Falls. Instead, it appears that energy is obtained when sulfur is cycled through different oxidation states by reacting it with iron, producing the Fe(II) seen in the brine. The oxidized sulfur is then used to react with carbon compounds, powering the metabolism. All of that is pretty low-energy—the authors suggest that the doubling time for a bacterium in this environment would be roughly 300 days—and requires an external source of Fe(III) to power the system. The authors posit that the glacier itself might provide the source by extracting new iron as it scrapes across the underlying rocks.
Bizarre environments like this help inform scientists as they consider the prospects for life on other planets and moons. But this specific example may tell us something about how life managed to persist on Earth during what appear to have been complete global glaciations that occurred in the Neoproterozoic. These "snowball earth" events may have frozen over the oceans, but the Blood Falls bacteria suggest that life could have eked out a metabolism under these extreme conditions, providing raw material for evolution once the planet warmed again.
Science, 2009. DOI: 10.1126/science.1167350
http://arstechnica.com/science/2009/04/ancient-frozen-ecosystem-produces-blood-red-ice-flows/
Lake In France Turns Red
13 August, 2012QuoteThis year, we have encountered the color red in places where we don't expect to see it. A while back the strange appearance of Azov Sea stunned residents who saw how the water had turned red. The red rocks in China have also puzzled scientists for a long time.
Now, a lake in Southern France has also suddenly turned red.
The charming Camargue, France is a river delta where the Rhône meets the sea
This region is home to a number of salt flats and this concentration of salt sometimes stain the red the regions normally blue water.
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Image credit: Caters News AgencyQuoteIn this region we can also find riz rouge, or red rice, so-named for its unmistakable blood red color.
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Strange Red Appearance Of Azov Sea - Locals Panic
29 July, 2012QuoteYou might remember the article about the red rocks that puzzled scientists for a long time.
This week, scientists and citizens were stunned to see how the Azov Sea suddenly turned red.
"It might be a sign of the coming events, or even end of the world" say the locals.
The officials have been trying to calm down people, explaining that although this does not happen often it is a natural phenomenon that does sometimes occur.
Azov Sea, or Sea of Azov as it is often called is situated off the southern shores of Ukraine and Russia.
It forms a northern extension of the Black Sea, to which it is linked on the south by the Kerch Strait. The Sea of Azov is about 210 miles (340 km) long and 85 miles (135 km) wide and has an area of about 14,500 square miles (37,600 square km).
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This picture of the Azov Sea was taken by one of the locals. Image credit: English RussiaQuoteThe sea is characterised by high concentrations of organic matter and long blooming periods.
Scientists have discovered about 600 species of planktonic algae in the Sea of Azov.
The number of species is dominated by diatoms and green algae; blue-green algae and pyrophites are significant, and euglena and yellow-green algae form only 5% of the species.
Green algae are mostly responsible for the greenish colour of the sea in the satellite images.
QuoteSo, what exactly did happen with the Azov Sea?
It is still unclear what happened. The change of color could be due toxic pollution, but most likely the reason for bloody red color of the sea is algal blooms that are not dangerous to humans. The south-west wind "drove" algal blooms closer to shore. Further flowering could lead to fish deaths of mass proportions.
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Quote"If the Sea of Azov continues with algal bloom, it will be a disaster with unpredictable consequences. If this heat is about to repeat several more years, the sea has the potential to be renamed from Azov in the Dead," said George Ryazantsev from the Research Institute of the Azov sea.
The director of the Institute Leonid Izergin assures that the sea is safe for swimming, but the villagers of Berdyansk do not believe him. They claim that the sea has a special metallic smell that worries them.
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http://englishrussia.com/2012/07/25/the-azov-sea-turned-bloody-red/
Odd Phenomenon Of The Red Rocks -
Why Did All The Stones Suddenly Change Color?
21 July, 2012QuoteSome years ago, back in, 2005, over the slopes of Mount Gongga, China all rocks suddenly turned red.
In time, the entire region became known the "Red-Stone-Valley" and today it is a spectacular local tourist attraction.
For many years, scientists have wondered what caused the stones to unexpectedly change color?
Today, scientists can finally offer an explanation what is behind this strange phenomenon.
According to Guoxiang Liu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and his colleagues, the rocks became red as a result of a newly discovered variety of the algae Trentepohlia jolithus that suddenly expanded.
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The stones suddenly changed color. Image credit: Guoxiang LiuQuoteIn their research paper, Liu and his colleagues write that " Trentepohlia is a genus of subaerial green algae which is widespread in tropical, subtropical, and also temperate regions with humid climates".
The scientists state that the reason the algae Trentepohlia jolithus started to expand is due to global warming as well as various human activities.
"This new variety only grows on the native rock, both global warming and human activity have provided massive areas of suitable substrata: the rocks surfaces of the Yajiageng river valley floodplain were re-exposed because of heavy debris flows in the summer of 2005; plus human activities such as tourism and road-building have also created a lot of exposed rock!" Liu and his team write.
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Red-Stone-Valley and the stones covered with Trentepohlia-carpets.Quote2A-2B: Red-stone Valley and the Yajiageng River; 2C: Red Trentepohlia-carpet in a cold winter; 2D: Trentepohlia growing on stone walls near the road; 2E: Red-Stone-Valley and Yajiageng River; 2F-2G: Red-Stone-Valley in foggy conditions; 2H: Tibetan Ni-ma stack with Trentepohlia growing on it. 2I: Red-Stone-Valley in winter. Image credit: PLoS One
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Microscopic view of Trentepohlia jolithus. Image credit: PLoS OneQuoteToday, most of the rocks are covered with deep red colored algal carpets in the Yajiageng river valley.
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/redrockschina.php#.UhFcJNLUnjI
Hello all,
Recently Gloris Fod and I have found a new specimen of Astral-Jelly in the forest near where we live. It was on a dead log, and we checked in again after a few weeks and it seemed to have grown in size. Of course, we immediately tried to find out what this mysterious species was and we found this forum. That is what got us interested in joining and after finding some more interesting theories on this site we knew we wanted to join. I was wondering if you guys could help me understand more about this seemingly alien species?
Greetings:
Don't know why we missed this great thread, but we did.
Astral_Jelly... do you have any photos, per chance?
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With great respect,
tfw
Peace Love Light
Liberty & Equality or Revolution
Hec'el oinipikte (that we shall live)
Seems I need to do a repair on this page as a lot of images are missing
I need to transfer this one to the website so we have the images
BUMP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80mZX1blAVE
5 May 2016 - Large Slow Moving Object/Meteor Radar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80mZX1blAVE)
BLOOD-COLOURED rain poured down in a remote Siberian city, creating an eerie scene that witnesses compared to a biblical plague or the apocalypse
By OLI SMITH
PUBLISHED: 13:00, Thu, Jul 5, 2018QuoteRain in a remote region of Russia has turned a blood-stained red in a shocking weather event.
Extraordinary footage of the scene shows the red rain pour down in the Siberian city of Norilsk.
Video of the rain shows a car park at a local nickel and copper processing plant in the Arctic.
The vehicles and ground were soaked in a blood-red rain.
According to Russia Today, locals in Norilsk feared that the rain signaled an imminent apocalypse or a biblical plague.
One witness said: "It is like a horror movie. There was bloody rain."
Health officials were quick to point out that the oddly-coloured rain was not a risk to the local population.
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Rain in Russia's remote regions has turned a blood-stained red in a shocking weather eventQuoteA spokesperson for the metals giant Nornickel told TASS news agency that they conducted a probe and established the cause of the incident.
Far from being the effect of pollution, the company claimed the rain was caused by a clean-up operation.
Nornickel, which owns the Nadezhdinsky processing plant, said that the company had been carrying out a clean-up in the mining city on Saturday.
Huge quantities of iron oxide had been removed from the factory floor and roof in order to improve the environment.
The material "was gathered and prepared to be taken away".
They said that "a gust of wind blew it over the parking lot while the rain caused it to fall" and produce the eerie scenes.
Nornickel said the bizarre rain only took place over the car park area and was not widespread.
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Metals giant Nornickel said the rain was caused by a clean-up operationhttps://www.express.co.uk/news/world/984303/blood-red-rain-Russia-freak-weather-viral-video
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Freak weather: Orange snowstorm submerges tourist resorts with eerie 'apocalyptic' scenes
A FREAK WEATHER incident has struck at least four countries, turning white snow into an eerie orange shade that has left residents terrified about the cause.
By OLI SMITH
PUBLISHED: 08:32, Mon, Mar 26, 2018 QuoteCities around Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania have all reported the bizarre orange snow phenomenon, videos of which have quickly gone viral.
Tourist destinations, including ski resorts, have been blanketed by the orange snow, which has turned snowy mountains into sand dunes.
Several witnesses compared the scene to an "apocalyptic scenario" or something that resembled the surface of Mars.
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Tourist destinations, including ski resorts, have been blanketed by the orange snowQuoteScientists have blamed the eerie snow tint, which varied from light yellow to intense orange and even brown, on a mix of sand and pollen.
Experts from the Sochi Centre of Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Black and Azov Seas were sent to test the strange sight yesterday.
A spokesman for the centre said the cause of the phenomenon was likely winds carrying sand from the Sahara, which then fell as rain.
However, they also predicted that things will be back to normal within days.
Tourists at a ski resort in Sochi, which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, posted photos on Instagram and Twitter of the hazy landscapes and yellow-orange slopes.
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Several witnesses compared the scene to an "apocalyptic scenario"QuoteOne user said: "Martian landscape, Apocalypse Now."
Another added: "Snowy slopes were transformed into barkhan dunes."
Similar photos were posted by residents in Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria.
The snow phenomenon has been compared to a similar incident that took place in Siberia in 2007 when orange-tinted snowfall covered 1,500 square kilometres.
Despite theories, it remained unclear what caused the orange snow display, with speculation ranging from pollution to a nearby sandstorm.
According to Russia's environmental watchdog at the time, the snow was reported to be "malodorous, oily and contain four times the normal level of iron".
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/936514/Freak-weather-Orange-snowfall-tourist-ski-resort-Russia-Sochi
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