Four policemen in Philadelphia in 1950 found a mysterious gelatinous "blob" they couldn't explain. The story made the newspapers all across the U.S. particularly because it happened during the period of multiple flying saucer stories in the news. A few years later, a film producer asked an associate to come up with a new angle on a science fiction movie and he ran across the headlines about the blob, only in he original story it was called the "glob".
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/07/beware-the-glob/
"...The perplexed policemen observed the strangely pulsating heap, which they claimed glistened beneath their flashlights. The officers estimated that the circular mass was approximately 6-feet in diameter and nearly a foot thick at the center.
The edges sloped down from the peaked top of this “glob” — as Frank Edwards dubbed it in his tome “Strange World” in a chapter titled “Police and the Purple Glob” — tapering to a lip that was just a couple of inches thick. When they turned off their flashlights, the men discovered that the “thing” emitted a faint purplish, perhaps bioluminescent, glow that illuminated the darkened field.
The most disturbing thing about this odd object, according to the officers, was the fact that this iridescent, gelatinous substance seemed to vibrate of its own accord. There’s even one report that claimed the entity was “oozing” up a nearby telephone pole. Regardless of the limits of its mobility, the fact that this thing moved at all seemed to indicate to the officers in question that this blob-like entity was almost certainly a living organism. ..."
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