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SUBJECT: MORE OF THE STRAIGHT DOPE FILE: UFO3146
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(paraphrased from "More of the Straight Dope" by Cecil Adams, pg. 285-87).
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A Mrs. Sybil Christian of Frisco, Texas found a number of
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blobs on her lawn after the Perseid meteor shower of August 11, 1979.
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She described them as looking like "smooth whipped cream, [only]
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purple". The blobs were about the size of a telephone and weighed a
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couple of pounds apeice, were warm to the touch and contained small
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chunks of lead. One melted away on the lawn, but police took the
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remaining two to the Heard National Space Museum nearby and, eventually,
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one ended up at NASA...
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One of Sybil Christian's neighbors claimed to have seen a meteor
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hours before the blobs were discovered and rumors of their
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extraterrestial origin began circulating. Ron DiIulio, assistant
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director of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, heard
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these rumors and didn't buy it. Investigatiors discovered a battery
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processing plant a mile and a half away from the Christian home with
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several tons of purple and reddish blobs. The stuff was a caustic soda
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used to clean impurities out of lead that had been salvaged from old
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batteries. It was also learned that trucks carrying scrap iron went past
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the caustic soda dump and the Christian house every day.
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Soon after, "Fate" magazine published a long article claiming the purple
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blobs were "Star Jelly", also known as "Pwdre Ser" or "Rot of the
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Stars". The article speculated that the Pwdre Ser may be "advanced
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cellular organic matter" that exists in "pre-stellar molecular clouds"
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floating around in space. As evidence, Fate claimed that (1) a simple
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test that could have conclusively proved the purple blobs were caustic
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soda was never performed, (2) the one test that <was> performed was
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inconclusive, (3) the blobs at the plant were hard, whereas the ones on
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the Christian's lawn were soft and (4) Mrs. Christian herself does not
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believe the goo she found was the same as the substance found at the
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plant. In rebuttal, scientists claimed that Mrs. Christian's blobs were
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soft because they absorbed water when she'd squirted them with a garden
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hose (Mrs. Christian's notions of planetary defense were a bit
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abductors. It's probably similar to UFO/alien abductor/abductee
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conversations, but at least her abductors were human.
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