橙色物質入侵之謎，來自世界最偏遠地區的天空

Mystery Orange Goo Substance Comes To Shore Of Alaskan Village
神秘橙色咕物質來到阿拉斯加岸村
2011-08-06


橙色物質入侵之謎，來自世界最偏遠地區的天空
Mystery of the orange substance invading from skies in one of the world's most remote spots
By Mail On Sunday Reporter
Last updated at 4:59 PM on 7th August 2011

A strange orange substance raining down from the skies has left villagers in one of the world’s most remote areas mystified.

The alien invader was found in rain buckets in Kivalina, an Eskimo community in Alaska, and floating in the harbour, creating 100ft-by-10ft swathes of what one resident described as ‘bright neon orange’.

The news attracted all the townspeople, keen to get a glimpse of the phenomenon that covered much of the harbor and then began washing ashore on Wednesday.

What is it? The Coast Guard says the orange substance is not man-made and might be some type of algae
它是什麼？海岸警衛隊說橙色物質是不是人做的，及可能是某類型的藻類

On Thursday it rained, and residents found the orange matter floating on top of the rain buckets they use to collect drinking water. It was also found on one roof, leading them to believe whatever it was, it was airborne, too.
By Friday, the orange substance in the lagoon had dissipated or washed out to sea, and what was left on ground had dried to a powdery substance.
Residents, who have been left mystified by these events, have been advised to boil drinking water and to keep children away from the substance.
The Coast Guard already has ruled out that the orange material, which some people described as having a semi-solid feel to it, was man-made or a petroleum product.
Village administrator Janet Mitchell has said that algae is the best guess.
She voiced the main concern of the villagers, which is that the substance might be harmful: 'What will it do to fish, which villagers will soon start catching to stock up for winter, or the caribou currently being hunted, or the berries? We rely 100 percent on subsistence.'
A further complication is that reserves are running low in the city's two water tanks.

Precaution: The population of Kivalina Alaska has been advised to boil drinking water after a strange substance rained from the sky into the harbour

The tanks need to be filled this summer from the Wulik River to make it through the winter. Pumping cannot resume until the orange substance has been identified.

Emanuel Hignutt, a state-employed chemist, said: ‘At this point it’s a mystery.’
'There are a number of experts in the areas who can identify if it's an organic material, for example, and what species this is. Perhaps it's not an organic material, and we're going to determine that as well.' Hignutt added.
Portions of the samples will also be sent to the University of Alaska Fairbanks and to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lab in South Carolina for testing.

Testing: Samples of the mysterious orange substance have been sent for analysis

63-year-old Kivalina resident Austin Swan said: 'This is the first for Kivalina, as far as I know.'

Swan helped collect some samples for testing, and grabbed some of the substance in his gloved hand.

'It was really light, with a powdery look to it, and it was just floating on there, all bunched up together,' he said. 'It looked like it could blow away very easily.'

Swan added that some of the material had an oil-like sheen to it.

Kivalina wasn't alone in reporting the strange orange substance last Wednesday.

Shannon Melton said she was boating on the Buckland River about 150 miles southeast of Kivalina, and the river was not its normal color. 'It was orange looking.' she said.

She took the boat out again on Thursday to go berry picking, and said the river had returned to its normal color, but some of the creeks off the river still had the orange tinge to them.

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美國阿拉斯加州天降神秘橙色物質
2011年8月8日14點 39分十八秒來源
國際在線

國際在線專稿：據英國《每日郵報》8月7日報導，位於美國阿拉斯加州北極圈內的基瓦利納(Kivalina)地區，日前天降神秘橙色物質。當地海岸警衛隊稱，這種物質很可能屬於某種藻類。

報導稱，8月4日，以愛斯基摩人為主的基瓦利納民眾發現，一種橙色物質漂浮在他們用來收集雨水的水桶中的水面上。一戶人家的屋頂上也發現同樣物質，他們認為這種東西應該是隨著雨水從天而降的。到5日，散落在環礁湖中的橙色物質開始消散，岸邊的則被沖入大海，留在陸地上的慢慢變乾，成為粉末狀物質。

當地村民對這種物質感到迷惑，專家也建議將該水煮沸以後再喝，並讓孩子遠離這種物質。一些人稱這種東西摸起來類似半固態，可能是人造的或者是某種石油產物。海岸警衛隊目前正在清除這些橙色物質，他們認為這是一種藻類，當地行政人員珍妮特·米切爾(Janet Mitchell)也認同此點。許多村民擔心這種物質有毒，可能對當地民眾賴以為生的漁業造成影響。

這種物質的樣本已經被送往阿拉斯加大學費爾班克斯分校和位於南卡羅來納州的國家海洋和大氣管理局實驗室進行化驗。幫助收集樣本的63歲當地居民奧斯汀·斯萬(Austin Swan)說：“這是我第一次看到這種物質，它很輕，就漂浮在水上，雖然都聚作一團，但看起來好像隨時都要被吹散一樣”。

基瓦利納地區不是唯一發現這種橙色物質的地方，距離這裡240公里的巴克蘭河(Buckland River)也出現不正常的顏色，看起來也很像橙色。 (李金良)

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