The Oakville Blobs

It rained in Oakville with multiple fallouts of transparent gel over the course of three weeks. The health of everyone in town was seriously compromised. The mystery would have gone unsolved, but for one woman with the presence of mind to collect uncontaminated samples.

When the rain falls with transparent blobs, it is called Star Jelly, because it is usually blamed on meteor showers. Reports have been made of Star Jelly for centuries. However meteor showers are rare, and the reports continue. In one case, a better explanation has been found.

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In Oakville, Washington, it rains three days a week. It rained on August 7, 1994. But it was not rainwater. Police officer David Lacey was in his patrol car at three in the morning. He turned on his windshield wipers. Instead of being wiped clean, the mushy substance was smeared over the glass, reducing his visibility to zero. Fortunately he was near to a gas station. He put on latex rubber gloves and cleaned his windshield. He said the substance was like a gel. Twelve hours later Lacey fell gravely ill. It was more than shortness of breath. He could hardly breathe. It was the sickest he had been his entire life.

Ten miles away at Dotty Hearn's farmhouse, she saw what seemed like tiny hailstones, about the size of grains of rice. When she saw the substance on top of her firewood box, she touched it with her bare hands. Mrs. Hearn's daughter Sunny has an occupational safety background. She put on gloves and collected samples. The material was everywhere... on the grass, on the trees, on the vehicle parked in the driveway.

On the afternoon of the next day Sunny found her mother on the bathroom floor, covered in sweat and burning with fever. The ambulance brought Dotty to McCleary Hospital, where she would spend the next three days. Sunny followed the ambulance and brought one of the samples. She gave it to the physician Dr. Little for analysis. The doctor told her the sample contained human white blood cells. She delivered by hand another sample to Mike Osweiler at the Department of Ecology. When the department found a cell with a nucleus, it meant this was a living organism.

Sunny had a kitten which died a few days after the rain. Her mother's dog fell deathly ill. Dotty permitted a small herd of cats to inhabit the barns on the property, to keep them free of mice. These felines also started dying. Some nearby farms lost larger animals... horses, and cows.

The infectious rain, which Sunny calls "the fallout", continued intermittently for three weeks. Altogether there were six fallouts over Oakville. Other residents had influenza-like symptoms. Maurice Gobeil said his whole family got sick, and everybody that lived there got sick. Beverly Roberts said the whole town got the flu. It was not a flu that lasted 7 days. It was a hard flu, that lasted, more like 7 weeks, or 8, or 12.

At the Washington State health lab, epidemiologist Mike McDowell tested another of the samples that had been collected under sterile conditions by Sunny Hearn. He diagnosed it was a delivery system called a matrix, created to carry a virus or bacteria. He found it to contain the bacteria. "pseudomonas fluorescens", cited in over 150 military scientific papers as a biowarfare bacteria. When the remainder of the sample went missing from a secured medical locker, McDowell reported it to his supervisor. His supervisor told him not to ask any questions. It was the only time in McDowell's career that he ever lost a specimen.

Prior to the rain of blobs, in the skies over Oakville, residents were seeing a heavy amount of military aircraft traffic, many times a week. Dotty Hearn herself recalled, almost every day would bring more slow flying bombers, as well as military helicopters. None of them had markings, and all of them were painted black.