Residents of Bluffdale , Utah get quite a shock absorber yesterday when an enormous blob of pale green foam sprung forth , on the face of it out of nowhere , from a roadside irrigation logic gate .
The route was quickly close off by the metropolis as Salt Lake County Health Department official were call up out investigate . ab initio , resident were interest that the foaming might be the result of some sort of toxic alga . ( Not a unbalanced conjecture , given that anenormous , shit - fuel algae bloomis presently afoot in nearby Utah Lake . )
Nope , not a scene out of the new#Ghostbustersmovie , this was chance come out of a Bluffdale drainage today.pic.twitter.com/IxWZkX3BV4
— Ashley Sampson ( @ashleykewish)July 22 , 2016
But , as wellness department spokesperson Nicholas Rupp enjoin Gizmodo , a more potential explanation is that this is the outcome of workaday moss pick taking place in the Welby Jacobs Canal to which the tempest debilitate is tie in .
“ At this head , we for certain do n’t believe the foam is related to algae , ” he say . “ All grounds points to it fall from the moss cleaning appendage , because that physical process create foaming . ”
Rupp tote up that the health department took water sample from the Welby Jacobs Canal before the incident on Wednesday , and a final determination is expected by late today or early next calendar week . In all likelihood , the foamy secret will wind up up having a rather boring declaration — but man , it sure does look like aliens .
[ KSL News ]
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