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Strange orange ‘alien egg sacs’ discovered in river, baffling local environmentalists

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Footage shows the huge extraterrestrial sac after volunteers pulled it out of the water in Utrecht.
  • The luminous spot was extracted from the water by volunteers in Utrecht

A mysterious bright orange blob has been pulled from a canal in the Netherlands and has been branded “strange” by bewildered local environmentalists.

Footage shows the huge extraterrestrial sac after volunteers pulled it out of the water in Utrecht.

“This was hanging from the bottom of a floating island,” the group said of the unusual discovery made earlier this month.

They revealed that the strange entity was actually made up of animals known as water-pouch bryozoans, which group together in colonies.

‘The big bag is made up of several animals together. There comes a time when they form a colony and then the different colonies can come together again,” said urban ecologist Anne Nijs.

Footage shows the huge extraterrestrial sac after volunteers pulled it out of the water in Utrecht.

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‘A bag can be two meters in diameter. Then that bag sticks to something,” he explained.

He added that the find is particularly surprising because the hermaphrodite creatures are not native to Utrecht and are considered “exotic.”

‘It is the first time they have been discovered here. “It’s a very special story,” Nijs told the Dutch news site. ADVERTISEMENT.

“But fortunately here they don’t harm the environment,” he added.

The harmless nature of aquatic animals means it was safe to return the sack to where it was found beneath the islet.

They are believed to be native to the east coast of the United States and were first found in Europe in 1883, in Germany.

The species has been found throughout Western Europe since the 1990s and is spreading “rapidly”, according to Nijs.

During the summer, large groups of microorganisms were observed in the McGee Creek Reservoir in Oklahoma.

Images of the strange sightings in Oklahoma over the summer appeared online, showing large gelatinous balls with a hard exterior hanging from submerged tree branches.

Images of the strange sightings in Oklahoma over the summer appeared online, showing large gelatinous balls with a hard exterior hanging from submerged tree branches.

Some feared the strange gelatinous balls could be dangerous, while conspiracy theories that they were “alien egg capsules” were also reportedly circulating.

Officials intervened to reassure locals. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) shared a photo of them on Facebook and wrote: “These are bryozoans and will likely appear in large numbers this summer.

“Don’t be alarmed, these microorganisms are native and pose no danger to you or wildlife.”

Bryozoans are tiny animals, no larger than four millimeters, that form colonies of numerous connected units called zooids.

They are invertebrates and have male and female reproductive organs, which means they can self-clon.

They feed primarily on bacteria and phytoplankton found in water, and their fossil record shows evidence of their existence 500 million years ago.

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