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    Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a mysterious orange-colored substance has washed up on the shores of a remote village in northwest Alaska.

    Tests have been conducted on the substance on the surface of the water in Kivalina (KIV'-uh-LEE'-nuh). City Administrator Janet Mitchell told The Associated Press that the substance has also shown up in some residents' rain buckets.

    Coast Guard Petty Officer David Mosely tells KTUU that it's not a petroleum substance and it's not man-made. Mitchell says the village is requesting that an algae expert from the University of Alaska Fairbanks investigate.

    Pictures taken by resident Mida Swan show an orange sheen across the harbor and on beaches in the village about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage.

    Swan says she didn't smell anything odd when she dipped her hand into the substance.

     

    1,166 comments

    • B Free  •  9 mths ago
      When I see orange goo in the water, my first instinct wouldn't be to put my hand in it.
      • Ty 9 mths ago
        LOL I know right?
      • Elizabeth Robinson 9 mths ago
        I agree!!!!! That lady must have something wrong with her!!
      • Creeper 9 mths ago
        She probably knew it was goo-ball warming! Slime-ate change! Jelly-vating temperatures!
    • rob  •  9 mths ago
      "Swan says she didn't smell anything odd when she dipped her hand into the substance."

      Tomorrow's headline: "Alaskan woman's arm falls off after being eaten by a mysterious alien microbe. Authorities say the woman dipped her hand into the substance."
      • James 9 mths ago
        I saw a 1950s sci-fi movie that started when someone stuck their hand in a strange gooey substance. It took over their body and grew to be a man eating blob.
      • Sam 9 mths ago
        Of course, I'm going to have to borrow that and repost it elsewhere.. LOL!!
      • rob 9 mths ago
        i got an email from yahoo about the community liking my post.. didn't expect to see 36 votes up though! and LOL @ the 3 people who voted it down, haters gonna hate
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Thats usually the first thing I do when I come across an unknown substance - stick my hand in it...
    • jim  •  9 mths ago
      Did the cast of jersey Shore go swimming recently?
      • RonP 9 mths ago
        That's funny!!!!
      • [fill in the blank] 9 mths ago
        HAHAHAHAHA!!
      • Fred J. 9 mths ago
        LOL...looks like the cast of Jersey Bore gave you 5 thumbs down, losers.
    • Derek F  •  9 mths ago
      I love that this lady just stuck her hand right in it, not like it could potentially be dangerous or anything.
      • hernicus 9 mths ago
        she's a blonde?
      • no one 9 mths ago
        I thought the same! Hmmmm, weird, gooey substance....let's just stick my hand in it.......then she brings back up a stub.
      • CameronG 9 mths ago
        I stick things in potentially dangerous places all the time
    • AaronS  •  9 mths ago
      She put her HAND in it?!?! Before she knew what it WAS?!?! Nuts.
    • Michelle L  •  9 mths ago
      I think the more important part of this is that it is showing up in residents rain buckets...so it can't be just ocean algea.
    • Ehécatl  •  9 mths ago
      Who dips their hand into mysterious orange goo and then gets close enough to smell it? What a #$%$ She is probably dissolving into a writhing pile of oozing tissue by now.
    • Tom Kent  •  9 mths ago
      It's fuel gel. The color orange makes it easier to detect a leak. It's lighter than water as most fuels are, so it will float on top. It was jettisoned from an experimental aircraft that was going down. But no one will confirm this because no one is supposed to know.
    • A_Nonny_Moose  •  9 mths ago
      I hope they kept more samples and plan to send it to several labs.

      When farmers in Michigan witnessed strange deformities in their milking cows, children, and even themselves. They sent samples to Lansing for analysis. The State owned lab returned with nothing wrong with the samples.

      Still, the farmers remained suspicious. So one farmer sent several samples to OUT OF STATE labs. Only when he told state officials of what he had done did the state finally announce that the cows were poisoned with Polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), a fire retardent. They had been poisoned for months - and all the milk they produced was poisoned, but still sold on the open markets.

      To this day, 95% of all Michiganders still have some trace of PBB in their systems (it is passed from mother to child through breast milk). Forty years later, Michigan mothers are still not supposed to breast feed their own children.

      Don't trust any lab within your own state - ever.
    • Mike  •  9 mths ago
      get fox mulder and dana scully up there asap.
    • Kev  •  9 mths ago
      Twenty bucks says the woman who touched it gets superpowers.
    • J  •  9 mths ago
      "Swan says she didn't smell anything odd when she dipped her hand into the substance" LOL Wonder if she tasted it next?!? LOL thats just stupid if you ask me!
    • Insertnamehere  •  9 mths ago
      Linus finally got payback on the great pumpkin for not showing up all those years.
    • flrbgnky  •  9 mths ago
      This is what happens when alien spaceships empty their camper toilets.
    • DonnaH  •  9 mths ago
      Soylent orange?????
    • Jim Butler  •  9 mths ago
      Ms. Swan obviously never saw the movie, "The Blob."
    • Goldie  •  9 mths ago
      TANG
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Real smart dipping her hand in it, no smell but her hand did have a mind of its own afterwards.
    • InquiringMindsWantToKnow. ...  •  9 mths ago
      She doesn't know what it is or where it came from but she put her hand in it?? Okkaaaaayy.
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