Baffled Alaskans

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http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/nation-world-news/orange-goo-baffles-remote-alaska-village-1224032.html

Swan helped collect some samples for testing, and waded out into the lagoon. He grabbed some of the substance in his gloved hand.

"It was really light, a powdery look to it, and it was just floating on there, all bunched up together," he said. "It looked like it could blow away very easily."

He said some of the material had a sheen to it, like it was oil.

"But I couldn't feel the oil at all, any texture at all."

When the material bunched up in the lagoon, it created 10 foot-by-100 foot swaths of glimmering orange.

"When the wind came in, it narrowed them to a few feet wide. The color was a bright neon orange," said Frances Douglas, a member of the city council.

"It pretty much covered the south end of the lagoon in streaks," she said of the attraction, which drew many residents.

"Pretty much, everybody was baffled," she said.

This would not baffle a Georgian very long, I guess Alaskans seldom see that much pollen, but in Georgia everyone drives a yellow car in April and May.

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Orange goo near remote Alaska village ID'd as eggs
This Aug. 6, 2011 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a magnified close up of a sample of orange gunk tested by NOAA scientists in Juneau, Alaska. Samples of the substance were collected last week in the remote village of Kivalina, Alaska, and were determined to be some kind of microscopic eggs.