When a rare occurrence does occur, its validity is naturally put into question, and the same goes for the white lobster recently found off the coast of New England.

Recently, Boston.com reported the catch of one ultra-rare white lobster by lobsterman Bert Philbrick off Owls Head. This was less than a week after Joe Bates reported catching his own white lobster off the Rockland breakwater. The chances of finding an albino white lobster, according to Press Herald, are about one in 100 million.

“We get blues (and) we get red ones every summer. That’s not a big deal. This is,” said executive director of the University of Maine's Lobster Institute, Bob Bayer.

“I don’t think they’re albinos. It looks like there’s some pigmentation there."

Reportedly, the white lobsters found could be blue lobsters with extremely light pigmentation. Blue lobsters remains very rare, around one in five million, while yellow and orange are about one in 30 million.

Nevertheless, despite possibly not being white lobsters, Bayer said, "It's nothing I've seen before."

Now, both lobsters will be heading off to different homes. Reportedly, one has been claimed by Brooks Trap Mill, a Thomaston lobstering supply store, while the other will go to the Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor.

Should white lobsters continue to be found in the area, it could be due to "some sort of unusual breeding."