Gross New Jersey Blob story:

The uproar over the blob began about 10 days ago, when a local boater noticed a giant blue and white sulfurous formation floating in a narrow lagoon about 50 yards from the backyard piers of Daddy Tucker Drive. Ocean County health officials and the State Department of Environmental Protection were called in. With some poking, the environmental agency declared it a nonhazardous “organic material, probably algae” that, in decomposing, had risen to the surface.