Translucent Blue Spheres Rain Down in the UK, Mystifying Meteorologists

Clearly they are the new line of curiously "gooey" Mentos...

They are a children's toy called Orbeez. www.orbeezone.com

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I'll mention this event is being well documented by other news agencies and PopSci is a little behind.

The drops have been provided to a scientist and they're not biological -- so eggs are ruled out.

The most convincing explanation I've heard so far is that they may be florists' hydrating jelly, especially since these balls were only found in a single person's garden -- not on the roof, street, lawn or anywhere else.

Check out the Guardian for a more recent update.

http://bit.ly/wKTBT7

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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan

Skeptic,

Perhaps they were fin-guided to his garden. :)

Regardless, seems odd that they would appear only in his yard (if I'm reading correctly) if they were brought by a hail storm... but also odd that they would appear in his garden only after said storm if they were indeed hydration jelly originating in the garden, and unrelated to the storm.

Is the suggestion that hail landed and was coated in the jelly, allowing it to solidify on the outside, creating a hollow semi-spherical shell after the hail melted? (reaching for understanding here)

This is a result of a factory explosion while a scientific experiments of hundreds test male humans are having sonic waves put on their testes!

NOT GOOD!

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SPOOKY!...... Life is

I'm sorry to say this, but it's sad that this simple TOY is getting people so confused!! I have a jar of this exact material sitting above my kitchen sink! What they are, if my memory is as accurate as I would hope it is, is a rather funny crystal that absorbs water, growing enormously in size, but becoming fragile, breaking to pieces like the one in this picture. As the article says, these blobs were found in wet grass, which indicates that they were thrown there by someone earlier and grew when it rained. The are often sold for only a few dollars for perhaps two dozen and if dry, are very small, meaning that unless you pressed your face into the ground, you wouldn't notice them. I hope this helps anyone wondering what this is and suggest checking the toy department before blaming either the government or aliens

Hey, the gods like paintball also. It's just Zeus getting with the times.

This was funny actually. I read about these blobs on BBC news the other day and loads of crazy ideas were going through my head of what they could be. Then the day after my brother popped his head in my room and launched a pink one at my head which split in half and ended up bouncing around my room for ages.

It didn't hurt, they're very light and bouncy. He got them out of a cheap £1 air fresher that has loads of the blobs in it. The way it split looks identical to the picture as well. Perhaps all that's happened is that school kids have bought one of them air freshers, started throwing them around then the rain has washed the scent away. I'll have to experiment with them to see if the scent can be washed away and get back to you...

No doubt the first place to look is from a practical joker or from inner space, an airplane flying over head releasing the goop substance etc etc. But here is a far more out this world idea. What if it is some of the goo the sun released in the mega solar flares reported recently, The interaction with the clouds in the upper atmosphere caused it to goo up and fall like big gooey raindrops. This would have to happen in the lower atmosphere just above Steve Hornsby.

That being said, it is more likely from a unfortunate gooey character from the movie "Ghost Busters" who got caught in a hailstorm.

Ron Bennett

The real story is just how this thing ever became the massive news event it apparently is.

And lol bronco, touche.

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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan

Its clearly aliens.

Hasn't anyone bothered to run some of the material through a mass spectrometer to get the basic composition?

It is leakage from a giant annunaki baby diapers. They put this same goo in baby diapers to absorb water.

Austinman42, saying is aliens are closer than you know.

The aliens made hybrid humans long ago and is written with the Samarians and it also noted in Christian and Jewish scripter of the giants.

Now my question is who is making giant baby diapers for the aliens; why did these diapers leak in some one’s back yard? And how fast will these babies grow and begin to take over the world?

It's almost certainly a toy. But possibly a diffent line/brand than the one previously mentioned. These came to mind as soon as I saw this story. Also, why didn't they have these when I was a little kid?
http://www.xploderz.com/products/ammo-refill-pack/

I'm not saying it was aliens.............but it was aliens.

Those are used energy orbs. The aliens invented bouncy balls by using their mind control devices on humans so that they wouldn't raise suspicion if some of the orbs were lost. Obviously, they dumped these used orbs when switching them out of one of their hypersonic jump ships. They typically just dump them in ocean, so no one notices, but these things are dropped off by the thousands on a daily basis.

The aliens are up there, you just have to use to common sense to see them. I just don't understand why so many people are in complete denial of the cold hard facts that are sitting right in front of their dumb drooling faces.

- Dr. Dirty Squirties (AKA Docta Squirts)
- Immigration Control, MIB

I think the blue goo falling from the sky is coming from airplane lavatories. Do not eat.

I find it hilarious that they're SUPPOSED to be put in the garden or the grass! ;)

Taken from: www.orbeezone.com/growing-orbeez/

Going Green: Dispose of Orbeez in the trash or even better, work them into your yard soil. Orbeez help soil stay moist and reduce the need for watering. After all, they were developed by the agricultural industry to protect crops during times of drought. Today, superabsorbent polymers, from which Orbeez are made are often planted under the sod of golf courses to keep them green and reduce water usage.

I found the real answer here, "McDonald's drops use of gooey ammonia-based 'pink slime' in hamburger meat" they released it into the upper atmosphere and it oxidized and turned blue before it hit the ground...

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10282876-mcdonalds-drops-use-of-gooey-ammonia-based-pink-slime-in-hamburger-meat

As the invisible Man and His invisiable Wife and Children were taking a stroll in the yard, their invisialbe Dog left some invisiable POOP on the ground.

sure its all fun and games now but wait until the spheres start to grow into shapes resembling the people who found them. Then they will rise up and go out to occupy someplace.

gee i saw the exact same stuff at target in the toy isle... little crystals that swell up when wet into blue fragine balls...some kid might have lost a packet in the wind and it went in his yard.

Consult Dr. Suess, these are Oobleck seeds.

Ladies, this is what happens to men, when you do not let us make love for a long time. We get blue balls and they fall to pieces on the ground!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

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Wow those look cncedentally like orbeez or nerf explorers ammo

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