Many places along the gulf coast have reported “Tar Balls” washing up on their beaches, yet no real media attention has been placed on the significance of these in contradistinction to the more fluid and gooey oil splotches. It must be recognized that these are Sacred Tar Balls, as they are ashphaltene residue of a hydrocarbon oil fire that consumed 11 innocent lives and may contain remnants of those fallen heroes as the Corpus Delicti from a possible crime scene.