The Blob Invades Alaska - Mysterious Organic Black Blob Floating Off Alaska!

From the Anchorage Daily News:

A mysterious floating blob of gooey black organic material, 17 miles long has drifted from the North and is now attacking Alaska!

IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.

Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.

Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department.

Brower and other borough officials, joined by the U.S. Coast Guard, flew out to Wainwright to investigate. The agencies found "globs" of the stuff floating miles offshore Friday and collected samples for testing.

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