Oakville Blobs

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Location: Oakville, Washington, United States of America
Dates Active: August 7 - August 28, 1994
Category: Conspiracies, Human Testing, Strange Weather
Cause: Unknown; Possible Government Test or Biological Agent.
Status: Closed
Entry ID: 010624C-00004

Summery: 

Billions of tiny white blobs rain down over a Washington town, making locals who come into contact with them sick and killing several small animals. Scientists who studied the blobs, but all samples were mysteriously lost.

In Depth:

The strange rain began at approximately 3:00 AM. Oakville residents began noticing what at first looked like hail covering the ground, but when touched the tiny clear grains they squished like gelatin. The small squishy grains covered about 20 square miles in and around Oakville.

Several residents became sick after coming in contact with the blobs, with symptoms like nausea, vertigo, blurred vision, and difficulty breathing. In some reports this illness lasted anywhere from 3 weeks to 2 months. Several pets whom also came into contact with the tiny blobs became ill and actually died.

Sick victims collected a small amount of the grains when they went to the hospital, where a lab technician claimed he had found it to contain human white blood cells. Because of the strangeness of finding the samples were forwarded onto the Washington State Department of Health for further testing, where microbiologist and epidemiologist Mike McDowell received the samples. McDowell said that there were two types of bacteria found on the samples, one of which lives in the human digestive system, contained within a "matrix" in which other biological materials would be transported. McDowell reported these findings to his supervisor and went home. When he returned to work the next day the samples were missing.

While that normally would have ended right there, over the next three weeks more of those tiny globules fell from the sky a total of five more times. This allowed more samples to be collected and sent to another lab, this time to AmTest Laboratories, a private research company. Tim Davis, the microbiologist working at AmTest, found that the samples contained what he believed to be an Eukaryotic cell.

No one knows where the blobs came from or how they ended up raining down in Oakville, and the remaining samples were eventually "lost" or decayed to the point of being unusable.

Notable Theories:

While no concrete evidence as to the cause of the Oakville blobs and there are no remaining samples to test, there are plenty of other theories as to what they could be:

  • Jellyfish bits made by bombs: United States Air Force were confirmed to have been conducting bombing runs some 50 miles away in the Pacific Ocean. It was proposed that the bombs dropped into the water could have hit a school of jellyfish, blowing them to tiny pieces and sending them skyward, where they rained down onto Oakville.
  • Fluid human waste released from a commercial airline flight: while some of the scientists that examined the blobs found they contained bacteria that lives in the human digestive system, and proposed the idea that they may have come from an airplane releasing waste from their waste tank. However, there are several reasons why this wouldn't work: waste contained on such craft are required to be dyed blue, couldn't form a gelatin-like texture even if it did manage to be released, and US Federal Aviation Administration forbids the release of human waste while in flight.
  • Alien creatures on meteors: One proposed theory is that it could be remnants of alien creatures that had hitched a ride on asteroids, which in turn entered the Earth's atmosphere (becoming meteors). Such ideas have been proposed for centuries with regards to other such incidents, given names such as 'star jelly.' However, that doesn't explain the human gut bacteria found inside.
  • Blobs were spread along the ground: Some theorize that the blobs were spread around by someone or something along the ground. This idea basically claims the otherwise reliable witnesses were lying about how they came across the blobs, and does nothing to explain what the blobs were or where they came from.

External Links (Last Checked January 6, 2024):

Oakville Blobs in Media:

  • Unsolved Mysteries, Season 9, Episode 6 (First aired: May 9, 1997)
  • Unsolved Mysteries, Season 14, Episode 108 (First aired: August 14, 2009)
  • Monsters and Mysteries in America, Season 3, Episode 6 (First aired: February 25, 2015)

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Last Update: April 15, 2024

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