WL5 is a unique object that lies deeply embedded in the Rho Oph cloud
 complex.  WL5 is unique because it is the ONLY object towards which
 solid state H2, i.e. frozen molecular hydrogen, has been detected in
 interstellar ices.  Little else is known about this object although it
 is thought to be a protostar hidden by more than 50 magnitudes of visual
 extinction of intervening cold dense molecular cloud materials.  Because
 of this lack of data on WL5, it is not clear whether the presence of
 frozen H2 towards this object is a unique occurrence associated with some
 special property of this object and/or cloud or whether the overall
 material towards WL5 is similar to that of other dense clouds.  If the
 latter is the case, then one would conclude that the presence of large
 amounts of frozen H2 probably reside in the ices in most interstellar
 ices.  This would have profound implications for present astrochemistry
 and cometary models, which presently do not incorporate this possibility.