Mysterious spheres in England

After the hail, a British resident came to the garden and saw many small blue spheres on the grass.

Steve Hornsby - a man who lives in Bournemouth, England - said that more than a dozen green 3cm diameter balls fell on the lawn in the garden late in the afternoon of January 27 in a brief hail, BBC reported.

Small spheres with outer shells, soft cores, odorless, non-stick and do not melt

'I can't pick them up by hand. So I took a spoon and put it in a jar. The spheres have a layer of outer shell and a rather soft interior. However, they have no smell, no stickiness and also melt , 'Hornsby said.

The British Meteorological Agency confirms that spheres are made of a jelly-like substance and they are not a product of the weather.

Hornsby, a former aviation engineer, holds the balls in the refrigerator and is trying to understand their origins.

Josie Pegg, a Bournemouth University researcher, told Guardian that she and her colleagues were analyzing the material composition of the spheres with super-powerful microscopes. She also surmises that the spheres are eggs of invertebrates in the sea. Cannons can suck the eggs of marine animals and bring them to another place on the mainland. Another possibility is that the birds carry the eggs of the sea animals and meet the storm. Then the egg fell to Mr. Hornsby's garden.

"Birds carrying marine animals' eggs are a phenomenon that many documents have recorded , " said Pegg.

The position of the balls also caused many people to wonder. Hornsby only saw them on the grass, not on the roof, backyard or nearby roads. If the spheres fall from the sky, one could see them in many other places, not only in Hornsby's garden. So some people think that spheres are sodium polyacrylate, a substance that florists often use to keep flowers fresh for a long time.

Sodium polyacrylate can draw up to hundreds of times its mass, then release the steam without rotting the flower stem.

But why is sodium polyacrylate located in Hornsby's garden? According to Livescience , maybe someone put sodium polyacrylate in water containers to hold flowers. Then he or another person scooped up water in the jar towards Hornsby's garden, causing sodium polyacrylate, which then sucked in a lot of water and survived in a spherical tablet, thrown into the grass.