According to Anchorage Daily News (ADN), Alaskan hunters have noticed massive blobs of thick, black, viscous biological material floating in the waters off the northern coast of Alaska.

Going by the information provided by the hunters, the mysterious trickle, noticed last week, was drifting miles offshore in the frigid arctic waters of the Chuckchi Sea - which is a frosty and somewhat shallow stretch of Arctic Ocean water, lying between Alaska's northwest coast and the Russian Far East.

On learning about the mysterious blobs, the US Coast Guard reached the place to investigate. Along with approaching the unusual-smelling, hairy, blackish-brown goo via the sea route, the Coast Guard also sent two spill response experts to fly over the mystifying mass, which appeared kind-of rusty from the air.

Meanwhile, the North Slope Borough - the local government for the expansive and thinly-populated part of Alaska - sent its own officials to the main village of Barrow to examine the drifting mass. The local officials ladled jars of the 'stuff' for scrutiny in a state lab in Anchorage.

Terry Hasenauer, representative of the Coast Guard, told AND: "It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristic of oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter. It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism."