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Environment Dept. probes strange precipitation in Grant County
By Rebecca Johns and Levi Hill/Sun-News reporters
Article Launched: 01/11/2008 01:00:00 AM MST
SILVER CITY —The New Mexico Environment Department is looking into what caused a strange milky white rain to fall on Grant County Monday.
Area residents noticed the unusual rain as it left white puddles and a white, almost sticky residue everywhere.
"We're trying to determine what caused this event," said Marissa Stone, communication spokeswoman for the New Mexico Environment Department. "We are sending samples to New Mexico Tech and the University of Texas El Paso to be tested."
Stone said the NMED is looking at several possible reasons, including wind and weather patterns that might have brought the unknown substance to the area.
"We'll know what the substance is when we get the results back in one to three weeks," Stone said. "We want to know what it is as much as you do."
Originally posted by whaaa
This is odd! Could this have anything to do with the Massive Texas UFO?
Originally posted by Beachcoma
White and sticky residue? I don't like the sound of that...
Originally posted by Alphard
Quite possible some Christians will go ballistic if it turns out this stuff is eatable
3. The Sky is Bleeding!: Showers of blood falling from the sky may sound like something out of a Hollywood horror film, but such scarlet-tinted rains have been reported since ancient Roman times. Though they often horrified the people they fell upon, these rains were not actually blood—they were caused by dust or sand blown into the atmosphere and carried long distances by strong winds, eventually mixing with rain clouds and coloring the rain. In Europe, these red rains are usually dyed by dust carried across the continent from Saharan sand storms. (Other colored rains have also been spotted and seem to be caused by similar sources: pollens can create a startling yellow rain, dust from coal mines and ominous black rain, and some dusts a milky white rain.)
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Originally posted by Alphard
For me this piece of news reminded the story from the Bible where God rained down some sort of white stuff to Moses and his kin while they were in the desert. Don't know in English what that stuff was called though.
Quite possible some Christians will go ballistic if it turns out this stuff is eatable