The Mystery of the Oakville Blobs
On August 7th in 1994, a strange gelatinous substance started to fall from the sky at 3am. In a period of three weeks, this would happen a total of six times. The substance would be described as “mushy” and “jello-like”.
Around the afternoon on Aug 7th, many residents of Oakville, WA became mysteriously and violently ill. Difficulty breathing, extreme vertigo, blurred vision, and an increasing sense of nausea were some of the symptoms experienced by these people for two months. Many animals that came in contact with these blobs got ill and died.
Samples of the blob were sent to a lab in order to see if there was a link between the illnesses and the mysterious rain. A lab technician examined it and found that it contained human white blood cells but couldn't identify what it was or how it came from the sky. The sample was quickly sent to the Washington State Department of Health for further study. Mike McDowell, a microbiologist at the department, noted that it was teeming with two species of bacteria, one of which lives in the human digestive system. There was no explanation found as to what these blobs were and there are no samples of the substance remain.
Some explanations given were: -Human waste from an airplane (supposed to be dyed blue due to FAA regulations) -Naval bombing of a school of jellyfish (Oakville is 50 miles inland, lab tests contradicted this and it also happened 6 times over a course of three weeks.)
Oakville residents were skeptical of these explanations since prior to the incident they witnessed numerous US military air-crafts above their town.
