Gooey purple marbles found in desert probably aren't alien spawn

[brynne]

Gooey purple marbles found in desert probably aren't alien spawn

 

But what are they? And what are they doing in the arid scrub near the tiny town of Vail, Ariz.? The crack investigative team at KGUN-TV in Tucson tried to get to the bottom of what Geradine Vargas and her husband discovered on an outing to shoot pictures in the Arizona desert, but the best guess of various experts polled was that it was slime mold or jelly fungus, which wouldn't seem likely in that climate. More likely it's a slew of Orbeez … or those jelly balls used to keep flowers fresh, but who would drive all the way out to the desert to dump them? Besides aliens playing mind games with us, of course

 

Mysterious, purple spheres found in the desert

 

 

TUCSON (KGUN-9) - It was a normal Sunday in Vail for Geradine Vargas. Normal, until she and her husband stumbled upon something kind of weird.

"We were taking photos around the area and we just.... I mean, how could you miss this?" Geradine said. "It was just like glittering in the sun."

Thousands of tiny, purple-hued spheres piled in the middle of nowhere.

"It's just one of those things that you've never seen before."

They were watery, some where translucent, and the pile was completely isolated. Gerardine was amazed, and she wanted answers.

"We did email a friend of ours who's a zoologist, but she didn't know. I mean, she didn't seem to recognize what it was."

So, she sent KGUN-9 pictures of the spheres, hoping we could find some answers.

We checked out the mysterious spheres for ourselves, and learned they were still there. They're like gooey marbles that ooze out a water substance when squished. They roll, they shine, and they're out of this world.

 

Geradine was dying to know what they were, and so were we.

We spoke to Darlene Buhrow, director of marketing at Tucson Botanical Gardens, who's husband is a botanist. He said if these are something naturally occurring, they could be a slime mold or jelly fungus.

We've received tons of calls into the newsroom tonight from viewers who think they are a product like Deco Beads, which are tiny, colored, water-filled spheres that keep plants hydrated.

But thousands of them? In the middle of the desert?

No one is positive what these spheres are, and for now, all we can say for certain is that they're definitely out of the ordinary.

[Chameleon]

Haha that is funky.. They look like some sort of bath beads or something.. Weird

[PiNoY]

nice necklace.

[Lulu]

That's just what my crap looks like when I drink too much. Nothing to worry about.

[Chameleon]

That's just what my crap looks like when I drink too much. Nothing to worry about.

 

HAHAHAHA!