A load of floating biological goo that no one can yet i identify just turned up in Alaska – nothing to see here! move along!
It’s certainly biological. It’s definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter. It’s definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it’s some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism. in recent history I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this. Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall … If it was something we’d seen before, we’d be able to say something about it. But we haven’t. [The stuff is] gooey [and dark]. It’s pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it. It kind of has an odor; I can’t describe it.
Sounds like dialogue from ‘The Thing’
