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October 1st, 679: Naniwa, Japan.

'Cotton-like matter, about 5 to 6 feet long, fell over Naniwa, former name of Osaka, and was drifted by the wind here and there.'

[Understanding, May 1965 / Brothers]

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September 27th, 1477: Japan.

'White cotton-like material continuously fell from 11 a.m. to five p.m. after a luminous object crossed the sky.'

[Wendelle C.Stevens, Saga UFO Report, December 1977 / Brothers]

July 12th, 1596: Kyoto, Japan.

'A great earthquake struck the Kyoto area at night and strange white hair, several inches long, fell over the entire countryside.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

July 14th, 1596: Kyoto, Japan.

'White hair fell over Kyoto.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

June 4th, 1650: Kinki, Japan.

'Hair several inches long fell over the Kinki area.'

[Understanding, 5.65 / Brothers]

March 23rd, 1665: Nuremberg, Germany.

'A huge quantity of fibrous substance, like pale silk, drifted to Earth.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Annals Of Philosophy]

September 1702: Japan.

'At high noon the sun changed colour to a blood-like red and strings of a substance similar to white cotton fell to the ground'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

March 5th, 1724: Kyoto City, Japan.

'White hair, up to six feet long, fell from the sky.. during a heavy shower accompanied by high wind.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

June 25th, 1724: Edo, Japan.

'White hair 10 feet long fell in a shower over the city.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

September 21st, 1741: Bradley, Selbourne & Arlesford, U.K.

'The heaviest fall on record was reported in this triangular area. A white woolly substance fell in mats and rags twice the same day. The second fall lasted 11 hours, from nine a.m. until well after dark. The substance turned gelatinous and eventually evaporated.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Pageant]

May 3rd-5th, 1768: Kyoto, Japan.

'White hair, 11 to 55 inches long, fell over Kyoto and the surrounding countryside for three days.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

September 7th-9th, 1769: Kyoto & Otsu, Japan.

'White hair continued falling from the sky over Kyoto and Otsu for three days.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

October 14th, 1779: Osaka, Japan.

'A substance much like spider's web, fell from a clear, windless sky over the Osaka suburbs of Yodogawa and Tennoji. Many fibers wafted up again, but some remained on the ground. The fibers which resembled spider's gossamer but were much thicker, evaporated when touched. they fell from noon till two p.m.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

July 15th, 1793: Edo & Osaka, Japan.

'A huge amount of white hair fell in a shower over Edo and matter like spider's webs continuously fell over Osaka.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

July 15th, 1793: Tokyo, Japan.

'A light shower of white hair, 33 to 88 inches long, fell over Tokyo.'

[UFO Report, 12.77 / Brothers]

June 21st, 1819: Osaka, Japan.

'An enormous amount of white material similar to spider's web fell. It was strange for the sun to set as it did on that day and not become dark - the sky remained as bright as if moonlit.'

[Pageant]

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October 12th, 1857: Pont de Lima, Portugal.

[R.W.Morrell 'The Angel Hair Problem In Ufology'; booklet 1981/96]

October 13th, 1857: Pont de Lima, Portugal.

[R.W.Morrell, 1981/96]

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October 1881: Eastern Wisconsin, USA.

Scientific American reported a fall of enormous 'spider webs.. strong texture and very white..' anywhere from 60 feet length to 'mere specks.' There was no known presence of spiders in the area.

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October 16th 1883: Montussan, France.

CLOUD FORMED OF A SOLID, FLEECY MATERIAL

Bordeaux, the 18 October 1883

Sir,

An inhabitant of the free town of Montussan (Gronde), informs me of a phenomenon of which, last monday, he was the witness. On the 16 October in the afternoon, in wet conditions and violent wind, he saw, floating in the sky, a thick cloud of white tufts. These tufts, of which some were the size of a fist, broke up slowly and clung onto branches of trees or fell on the ground. These tufts, said the witness, seemed to be cotton wool or wool. This shower lasted about two hours.

A sample of these tufts was brought to me. I pass it on to you herewith in the hope that this phenomenon will interest you.

It seems to me to have a certain similarity to the shower of hay mentioned in one of the last numbers of La Nature.

I am handing over this incident to you just as it was recounted to me.

Sincerely, etc.

Francis DUSSAUT.

Note.- The material which our correspondent sent to us is white: it burns on carbonizing. Seen through a microscope, it is formed of tangled filaments similar to fils de la Vierge, so that it could turn out to be the case that the cloud in question constituted an extraordinary agglomeration.

G.T.

[La Nature (CORRESPONDANCE), 1883]

September 20th, 1892: Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Vast quantity "like great white sheets," some "50 yards or more in length."

[Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington D.C., Vol.II/
Richard H.Hall The UFO Evidence (NICAP,1964)]

November 21st, 1898: Montgomery, Alabama, USA.

FLOATING SPIDER WEBS

A paragraph in the Advertiser of Montgomery, Ala., states that on November 21, numerous batches of a spider-web substance was seen floating in the air and falling from the trees and leaves to the ground. Some of it was in films 15 or 20 feet long, but occasionally masses a few inches in length and an inch or more broad was observed. The author of the paragraph states that it was not spider web but resembled fine fibers of asbestos, and that it was probably connected with the fall of November meteors. It is also said to have shown a phosphorescent effect.

As there are several species of spiders that float indefinitely through the air by means of their delicate webs, the Editor sees no reason to think that the above-mentioned pheneomenon was of any other nature. It does not seem possible that the burning up of meteors could in any way have produced these delicate webs.

[U.S.A. War Department Monthly Weather Review, Volume 26]

1908: British Columbia, Canada.

May 18th/23rd/24th, 1913: Cova da Iria-Fatima, Portugal.

[TRUTH DATA BASE - http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/6897/main.htm]

September 13th, 1917: Fatima, Portugal.

[Morrell, 1981/96]

October 17th, 1917: Fatima, Portugal.

[Morrell, 1981/96]

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1945: near Belfast, Maine, USA.

'In 1945, a man was hunting near Belfast, Maine when he reportedly observed a UFO land. He watched the elongated object fly slowly toward earth at a gradual angle and come to rest in a clearing in some woods.

After sitting on the ground briefly, the strange craft emitted a humming sound, began revolving and ascended straight up into the sky. Before it disappeared from view, the witness said it discharged a shower of fine, silvery, thread-like material...'

[Philip L.Rife It Didn't Start With Roswell / Internet source]

September 26th, 1948: Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.

Personal Statement by witness P.L.Lewis.

November 10th, 1949: Depues Ferry, Pennsylvania, USA.

UFO sighting and angel hair fall.

[Hall, 1964]

1949: Ashley Clinton, New Zealand.

'My second sighting took place in 1949. I was studying the stars through my telescope when suddenly four objects in diamond formation passed overhead. They had stubby flanges instead of wings, with short thick bodies. They looked dark, and did not shine. The next morning, the newspapers carried reports of mysterious cobweb-like substance falling from the sky and draping itself across fences and telegraph wires, which melted on being handled.'

[Bertrand Collin; quoted in Michael Hervey UFOs Over The Southern Hemisphere (Horwitz Pubns., 1969)]

September 3rd, 1950: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

'There was a clear sky and no wind in western Queensland, when 'things' began to fall. Down floated thousands of them - 2 ft. strands of a white sticky substance, each with a white, thumb-sized ball - like sticky cotton wool - on the end. Guesses vary from a new secret weapon to the work of an unknown type of spider.'

[Harold T.Wilkins Flying Saucers On The Moon (Peter Owen Ltd., 1954)]

Pre-October 1951: California, USA.

'..described in Natural History, September 1951, in which "shiny silver-white balls," flying in formation, were seen to disintegrate with the production of angel hair.'

[Comment by U.S. editors in Aime Michel Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery
(Criterion Books, 1958)]

October 17th, 1952: Oloron-Saint-Marie, France.

At 12.50 p.m., Monsieur Yves Prigent, headmaster at the local school, was about to take lunch along with his wife and three children. His son, Jean-Yves, was looking out of the first floor windows '..and had just been told to come to table when he yelled out - "Come quick, Papa, there's something fantastic!"'
The whole family went to the window and looked out. Here is a report of what was seen, made later by Monsieur Prigent:

"Away to the north, showing clearly against the blue sky, a fleecy cloud of curious shape was floating along; above it a long, narrow cylinder, apparently tilted at an angle of 45 degrees, was slowly heading due south-west. I estimated its altitude at 2,000 to 3,000 metres. The object was whitish in colour, not luminous, and its shape was quite distinct. Puffs of white smoke were escaping from its top side. Some distance ahead of this cylindrical affair about thirty other objects were travelling on the same course. To the naked eye they seemed to be shapeless smoke balls, but field glasses revealed that there was a red ball in the centre encircled by a kind of yellowish ring at a very considerable angle to it, an angle so great that it hid nearly the whole of the lower part of the sphere in the centre, leaving the upper part visible.
These saucers were travelling in pairs in short, swift zigzags. When two saucers moved apart, they seemed to be connected by a whitish trail, like an electric arc. All these strange objects left very long trails which disintegrated and drifted slowly groundwards. For many hours afterwards trees, telephone wire and the roofs of houses could be seen festooned with the remains."

According to Aime Michel: '..These threads resembled wool or nylon. When rolled up they quickly became gelatinous and then vaporized and disappeared. Innumerable witnesses were able to collect specimens and see the sublimation progress for themselves. The gymnastics teacher at the secondary school picked up a substantial skein on the sports ground. The school staff were very excited, especially when they found out that when the threads were lighted they flared up like cellophane. M.Poulet, the science master, examined them carefully, but had no time to analyse them, though he watched the complete vaporization of one thread, about twelve metres long, which had been twined round a stick.
In addition to these witnesses and many other citizens of Oloron, other people in the neighbourhood.. and a shooting party in the Valley of Josbaigt were privileged to see the flying objects and the threads...'

[Aime Michel The Truth About Flying Saucers (Robert Hale Ltd., 1957)]

October 27th, 1952: Gaillac, France.

'Just before 5 p.m. on that day Mme.Daures, residing in the Toulouse Road.. heard a tremendous hubbub among the fowls in her chicken-run. Thinking that some bird of prey must be about, she looked up the sky and saw there exactly the same spectacle which the good citizens of Oloron had witnessed ten days before. She called her son, then two neighbours, then a third. But by this time at least a hundred Gaillac residents.. were scanning the heavens.

They all tell the same story, which agrees in every particular with the reports from Oloron: a long, smoke-capped cylinder, tilted at an angle of 45 degrees, travelling slowly in a south-easterly direction and surrounded by some twenty "saucers", sparkling in the sunlight and flying in pairs in a rapid zig-zag. The only difference is that at Gaillac some of the pairs of saucers occasionally came down fairly low, to an altitude estimated by the witnesses at three or four hundred metres. The whole performance lasted about twenty minutes, after which the cigar and its saucers disappeared over the horizon. By that time, masses of white threads were beginning to fall. They were still falling long after the objects had vanished. The.. observers likened these threads to glass wool.. on handling they became gelatinous and then vaporized and vanished...'

[Michel, 1957]

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'Though in 1952 I had been skeptical of angel's-hair reports, there was now convincing evidence of its link with the flying saucers. The '52 report had stated that hundreds of citizens in northern France had watched a huge cigar-shaped machine escorted by a squadron of flying discs. As the formation speeded up, a trail of angel's hair was seen to come from the tail of the mother ship.

In one incredible news story from France frightened citizens insisted they had seen some of the weblike substance trap a doctor like an insect caught in a web. As he struggled, the witnesses said, the angel's hair released him, regathered, and rose into the air.

It was this unbelievable detail which had made me reject the angel's-hair story. But since then the phenomenon had been fully confirmed. One report had come from Pierre Clostermann, a French air ace. While flying near Marseilles, Clostermann sighted a fast-moving saucer from which, he said, "little white flakes were escaping."...'

Major Donald E.Keyhoe The Flying Saucer Conspiracy (Henry Holt & Co., 1955)

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April 16th, 1953: Ongaonga, New Zealand.

'A strange, thread-like substance fell from the sky on April 16th, 1953, over various parts of Ongaonga, near Hastings, draping itself over fences and telegraph wires. It closely resembled matter seen to fall from Unidentified Flying Objects over France during 1952. The substance was not unlike white candy floss, while in France it was described as resembling cotton wool or nylon, but like the threads found at Ongaonga, they melted on being held or touched.

[Hervey, 1969]

Spring 1953: Moscow, Russia.

UFOs were seen over Moscow, and there were reports of angel hair falling.

[Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh UFO's From Behind The Iron Curtain (Souvenir Press, 1974) /
Clypeus, December 1967]

May 27th, 1953: Palmerston North, New Zealand.

'An amateur astronomer at Palmerston North reported seeing an unusual object the same night while observing the planet Venus. He described the UFO as being rather small and blue in colour. It dived and manoeuvred in the sky, and then made off rapidly with an irregular motion.

Later he saw a large amount of filament-like substance floating down from the sky, which he examined under a microscope. They were white in colour and ashy in texture. The filaments were also seen by a reporter belonging to the staff of the Manawatu Evening Standard.'

[Hervey, 1969]

October 9th, 1953: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

'While cycling along a street in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield at about 3.50 p.m. on October 9th, 1953, Mr John Anderson noticed a silken thread curving to the roadway. On investigation, it turned out to be a grey-white, cobweb-like filament which was draped around a telegraph pole at a point a few feet from the top and across to a tree growing in a nearby church forecourt. The thread had a tendency to become wrinkled as thin woollen threads do, and on handling, rapidly disintegrated until no trace of it was left.

Returning to his home witha tangled length of the substance, Mr Anderson placed it on top of an ink bottle while debating what to do with it, but before a sample could be analysed the substance again disappeared, this time within an hour.'

[Hervey, 1969]

'The picture (below) shows a sample of Angel Hair from what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Australia. The fall occurred over Victoria in October 1953. Analysis of the sample indicated that the shapeless mass contained traces of Boron, Calcium, Magnesium and Silicon in a nylon-like compound. This sample owned by Andrew Tomas, a former editor of UFOIC Australian F.S. Review, is kept in an air-tight jar and measures only half an inch across, having shrunk from some three feet.'

[Spacelink Magazine Volume 6 No.2; Editor - Lionel Beer]

October 13th, 1953: Pleasant Hill, California, USA.

THE TURKEYS GOT SCARED

'Four round objects flew over this area today at a great height. Mrs.Edwin E.Meyer of Cortsen Road was feeding her flock of turkeys who appeared to be excited by something overhead.

Mrs.Meyer looked up and saw four round objects glistening in the sun. She said one of the objects appeared to be flying alone a considerable distance ahead of the other three, which seemed to be linked together.

The objects threw off some kind of whitish substance and later a white silky strip about 12 feet long settled on a tree on the property of Dr.Kaho Dailey. A sample was sent to the sheriff's office in Martinez for investigation by military authorities.'

[Oakland Tribune, October 14, 1953 / Fate, May 1954]

November 16th, 1953: San Fernando Valley, California, USA.

'Valley Mystery Craft Spins Web - A fluffy blanket, dead-white, almost ephemeral in its delicacy and apparently electrically charged, may be the San Fernando Valley's first physical contact with visitors from outer space. It is reported to have streamed like a lacy ribbon from a mysterious craft that sped over the valley.'

[Newspaper report, written by Gordon Grant; quoted in Keyhoe, 1955]

'In November the San Fernando Valley in California made news when a fluffy substance drifted out of the sky. Observers said that they were watching three jets when they spotted a huge silvery ball behind them. They originally thought it might have been a tow target hauled by one of the jets, but the jets one by one "peeled off" and landed, and the silvery ball kept flying. It appeared to move up and down and sideways, and then finally a long streamer of white stuff, which looked much like a vapor trail spewed out of its rear, detached itself from the ball, and began to settle to the earth. Altogether, three engineers from Lockheed, North American, and Douglas Aircraft companies came to the area to inspect the stuff. One of the young men came with a sneering attitude but left with a handful of the stuff, silent and thoughtful.

This material is typical of the many falls of "angel hair," as it has been dubbed. When held between the fingers for a few moments it dissolves into nothing.'

[Coral & Jim Lorenzen UFOs: The Whole Story (Signet, 1969)]

'..such a large quantity of "angel's hair" fell in the San Fernando Valley that a bakery truck became completely enveloped in the wispy stuff. Two city blocks literally received a "blizzard" of the unearthly substance.

"It looked like finely shredded wool or spun glass," a resident was quoted. "But held between the fingers, it dissolves into nothing." '

[Brad Steiger Strangers from the Skies (Universal-Tandem, 1966)]

February 1st, 1954: Puente, California, USA.

'Mrs.W.J.Daily of Puente, California phoned the Mt.Wilson Observatory on February 1, 1954, seeking advice on how to best collect a specimen of "saucer exhaust."

Mrs.Daily had just experienced an UFO sighting when she was astonished to note a shiny, cobweb-like material flow out of the reddish colored saucer. The substance drifted down to earth and draped itself over trees, bushes, and telephone wires. According to Mrs.Daily: "It was long, silvery, like spider webs. But it vanished when I tried to touch it with my hands." '

[Steiger, 1966]

April 11th, 1954: Nelson, New Zealand.

Angel hair fall with UFO report.

[Hall, 1964]

May 12th, 1954: Shepparton, Victoria, Australia.

'Mr Ramon Estrada, of Shepparton, reported that at 4 p.m. on May 12th, 1954, he happened to see silk-like threads floating down from the sky. He also saw several long strands of this material sailing north. The average length of these strands was thirty feet. At 4.30 p.m. there was a similar occurrence, only the number of threads was doubled.

Mr.Estrada gathered some of these filaments and although they became wrinkled, they did not disintegrate. In an airtight container he sent a sample of this mysterious substance to the headquarters of A.F.S.B. which, in its subsequent report, said that the substance was pure white in colour, silky in formation, though harder in texture. It was odourless, warm on touch like cotton, and different from cobwebs which, after a time, are sticky and grey.

A microscopic examination revealed a mass formation of uniform threads of a very fine type. A comparison with the microscopic analysis of cobwebs showed that the Shepparton filaments were coarser. There was some resemblance to white raw silk or even nylon. The "Cosmic Silk" was highly susceptible to the disintegrating action of the atmosphere and the sample had to be kept in a tightly-closed container. The substance did not disolve in water. A test in a strong caustic soda solution caused the matter to disappear momentarily. It burned rapidly, leaving no smell or ash unlike wool, cotton, silk or cobwebs.

The threads were not sticky or oily, but dry. Like silk they stretched easily at the ends as little hairs were detached from the spool. The most important characteristic was the length of the original strands coming down from the sky which averaged thirty feet.'

[Hervey, 1969]

September 20th, 1954: St-Pere-en-Retz, France.

'Aside from a rather vague observation at Besancon.. there is only one interesting report for this date: at St-Pere-en-Retz, near the mouth of the Loire, in the evening a mysterious explosion shook the whole region. The roof tiles in neighbouring villages quivered, and people ran out of the houses. The sky was empty. A few minutes later, the classic white strands so often mentioned in the past, and particularly in the Oloron and Gaillac cases.. fell on the countryside. The same sticky consistency, the same ephemeral duration, the same total evaporation and disappearance..'

[Michel, 1958]

October 13th, 1954: Graulhet, France.

'But another observation that day is of extreme interest, the one at Graulhet (Tarn), 35 miles east-northeast of Toulouse. there are numerous witnesses, and their reports are precise and consistent. Here is one of them, M.Carcenac, a tanner of Graulhet.

"At 4:30 P.M. I noticed at a high altitude toward the northwest, moving southward at full speed, a white object which seemed to have a curious shape. I first thought it must be a jet plane of an unfamiliar type. Not making out any vapor trail, I went out and got my opera glasses. I could then see very distinctly a sort of huge, flexible, soft disk, white, which was swaying as it moved along at tremendous speed.

"I had been following the bizarre craft for several seconds, when it exploded in full flight. At the same time a circular object, very much smaller and silvery, seemed to spurt out from the mass and continued straight toward the south, where it soon disappeared, while the burst fragments of the soft disk scattered out through the sky in a ultitude of shapeless fragments which began to fall gently like shreds of cloth or paper."

Everyone who had seen this strange explosion rushed toward the place above which it had happened; they were able to see the debris reach the ground, sometimes catching on trees or telegraph wires. Many witnesses picked up th fragments of material, which resembled silvery filaments clinging together like cobwebs, and "wilted away" when handled. A sample was taken to the police, and a chemist in Graulhet tried to analyze it, but without success. In the heat, the strange material evaporated without leaving any traces. When brought near a flame, it disappeared almost instantaneously and produced neither fire nor smoke...'

[Michel, 1958]

c.October 13th, 1954: Pontiac, Michigan, USA.

'In the instance of "angel's hair," often reported, it is obviously created by the effect of the electronic forcefield about the ship on the chemical atoms of our atmosphere. The following statement came in from Stedman Chase, 4610 Fiddle Rd., Pontiac, Michigan, about that time, also.

Mr.Chase wrote, "About October 13, 1954, on a sunny afternoon about 4:00 pm, I was working in my front yard when I happened to notice a large piece of white stuff come down from out of the skies.

It was about a foot square. It was coming slowly down. It disintegrated from the friction before it hit the ground. I called my wife, Barbara, who came immediately, and we both watched as small chunks of the same white substance came down. Some of it survived the descent and stuck to branches of trees and blades of grass. Way up, for some time, we could see these white drops coming down. Mrs.Chase's father, who was horseback riding at the same time about 10 miles from our home, reported later that he had seen the same thing.

We gave a specimen to the Detroit Police Department in November of 1954 and their analysis came back.."no known identifiable element." " '

[Laura Mundo Flying Saucer Up-Day! (1974)]

October 18th, 1954: Vienne, France.

'Angel's hair, Vienne (Isere). The most abundant rain of angel's hair since Gaillac and Oloron, in 1952, was observed at Vienne during the afternoon.. by numerous witnesses. "We first saw," said M.Lelandais of the Aero Club of Vienne, "white shapes which seemed to be dancing in the clouds - rising, descending, going up again, changing shape, but very gradually coming nearer the ground.

"About half an hour later, a sort of rain of cobwebs came down on the airfield, as thick as closely-woven cloth. Handfuls were falling on the ground, on the hangar, on the airplanes, and we started to pick up great bunches. It felt like holding rubber threads, very fine, very soft to the touch, which matted together and at once evaporated in our fingers without leaving any sensation at all, any odor, or the least trace. We had the impression that it was the heat of our hands that made the material melt."

M.Lelandais shut some of the stuff in a tightly closed bakelite box. But next day, although he had put the box in a cool place, it was empty. On the ground, however, some of this "gossamer" still remained five hours later.'

[Michel, 1958]

October 19th, 1954: Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.

'"White cocoons" were reported drifting down from the sky, falling on the city's west side. Web-like material was reported in conjunction with 'flying saucer' sightings for nearly 1-week.'

[http://home.fuse.net/ufo/DATA54.htm]

October 22nd, 1954: Marysville, Ohio, USA.

'This occurred last October 22, some fifteen miles northwest of Columbus, Ohio. The pupils of Jerome Elementary School had been granted an extra recess that afternoon as a reward for good behavior. As described by one of the teachers of the school, Mrs.George W.Dittmer, "It was one of those glorious warm fall days and the whole sky was a clear blue."

The attention of the children became directed toward a strange object in the sky circling high above the school. The object was dazzling bright and cigar-shaped. The children watched the object a while before thinking to call their principal, R.R.Warrick. In response to their shouts Mr.Warrick came out to the fire escape in time to observe the object at that moment hanging high and motionless in the sky. Then the ship made off at a tremendous speed, disappearing from view rapidly.

Mr.Warrick called Mrs.Dittmer, who at once came out on the fire escape too late to observe the object but in time to witness a most beautiful scene. For, as the object darted away there appeared another strange sight. The air as high and far around as the teachers and teachers could see was filled with "the most beautiful soft white-looking tufts of cotton slowly floating to the ground." Mr.Warrick said it was almost at once as the object disappeared that this material began to show in the sky. For about 45 minutes they watched this fibrous material floating downward. The children brought up pieces of it to the fire escape for Mr.Warrick and Mrs.Dittmer to examine. In the words of Mrs.Dittmer "the substance had long fibres very much as if someone had taken strands of 'angel hair' and pushed some in bunches toward the middle or end, leaving a trail of fibres attached to it. It was very fine and soft to touch. It did not stick to our hands, but when we held two ends and pulled, it stretched without tearing. Where it stretched it had a shiny appearance. The part we held between our fingers very quickly seemed to go to nothing."

"However, we could roll it between our fingers into a very, very tiny ball. In a short while our hands had a green stain on them. I soon washed my hands in warm water and the stain rinsed off quickly. Mr.Warrick said he was leaving his on his hands to see what happened. He later said his hands became clammy and finally the color disappeared of its own accord."

Mrs.Dittmer goes on to say, "When we left school, we noticed it clinging to the grass, flagpole and some on the cars. I believe the thing that impressed me even further was what we saw as we drove the three miles to the Columbus road. The telephone wires were completely woven shut, as if hands had carefully spread 'angel hair' out very evenly. Not only this, but the telephone wires were connected to the electric wires on the other side of the road, so that it was like a canopy over the road for three miles. No more seemed to be coming down by this time." '

[The UFO Annual; Edited by M.K.Jessup (The Citadel Press, 1956)]

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'Mrs. G.W.Ellen, a teacher in Marysville, Ohio, reported that on October 22, 1954.."Mr.Warrick (the school principal) called me to the upstairs fire escape of our school building. He asked me to look in the air and tell him what I thought of what I saw.

The air, as high and as far around as I could see, was filled with the most beautiful soft, white looking tufts (much resembling tufts of cotton) slowly floating to the ground. It was doubly beautiful and impressive since it was one of those beautiful warm fall days and the whole sky was a clear blue.

As I looked Mr.Warrick told me how the children (who were permitted extra play period for good work that week) called him to come out on the fire escape quickly. He said he did so and they pointed to a silver and very shiny cigar-shaped object high in the air above.

He said for what seemed a split second it just seemed to hang there and all in an instant took off at a tremendous speed past view over the top of the schoolhouse. The children all told us that for a second it seemed to give off a light that nearly blinded them, just before taking off.

Mr.Warrick told me that it was almost at once that the air seemed to be full of the white tufts coming down." The teacher asked the children to write down their experience. They said the white material was coming down before they spotted the object, that after they spotted the object, it circled around for a while, at least several times. The principal and the teacher held some of the material in their hands which disappeared very quickly: a green stain appeared on their hands, disappearing, also, of its own accord.'

[Mundo, 1974]

October 27th, 1954: Florence, Italy.

'(At Prato) Two men, Gennaro Lucchetti and Pietro Lastrucci, were standing on the terrace of a hotel on the piazza San Marco, when they noticed in the sky two "luminous spindles", followed by a vivid white trail. Both objects were moving in line ahead at a staggering speed, with a short distance between them. Then the rear one accelerated and drew level with the lead object, both objects did a 45 degree turn, and vanished towards Firenze (Florence).

A few minutes later, there was a dramatic interruption of a game of football between teams from Florence and Pistoia. First the 10,000 spectators, then the players, and finally the referee himself, stood with their gaze riveted on two mysterious spherical objects passing over the stadium. Between 2.20 and 2.29 p.m., this pair of objects passed over Florence three times. Strange hairy filaments rained down upon the city, and the newspaper offices were inundated with excited phone calls.

It will be recalled that at both Oloron and Gaillac, witnesses had been unable to make an analysis of the enigmatic strands of "angel hair" before they dissolved into thin air. At Florence, however, an engineering student named Alfredo Jacopozzi had the presence of mind to clap some of the fibre into a sterilized glass tube and hasten with it to Professor Giovanni Canneri, director of the institute of chemical analysis in the University of Florence.

Aidied by his colleague Professor Danilo Cozzi, Canneri made a rapid microscopic and spectrographic analysis of the enigmatic substance, and his verdict ran: "It is a material of fibrous composition possessing notable resistance to traction and torsion. When subjected to heat it turned to a darker shade and volatilized, leaving a fusible transparent residue showed its principal constituents to be: boron, silicon, calcium, and magnesium. Hypothetically, the substance examined by us microchemically could have been a boron-silicon glass."

As an authoritative Florentine paper commented at the time, "the scientist was unwilling to say more. All that we can say, as objective and faithful chroniclers of the matters - and we do not wish to add one word more - is that the "waste material" in question was seen falling from the sky at the same time as certain residents of the city saw something strange occurring in the heavens above them." '

[Roberto Pinotti 'The Italian Scene,' in Flying Saucer Review Vol.16, No.3, 1970]

October 28th, 1954: Rome, Italy.

Angel hair fall with UFO report.

[Hall, 1964]

December 12th, 1954: Christchurch, New Zealand.

Angel hair fall with UFO report.

[Hall, 1964]

Late-1954: California, USA.

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas were able to collect some apparent Angel Hair in a small jar. Some had fallen over trees and shrubs, about 50 miles south of Red Bluff, California. No unidentified aircraft were observed.

[Information re-printed in Uranus, September 1955]

September 1st, 1955: Edmore, Michigan, USA.

'..angel hair fell slowly to earth in clumps, 'some as large as big platters.' A UFO accompanied the phenomenon.'

[Leonard G.Cramp Piece For A Jig-Saw (Somerton Publishing Co., Ltd; 1966)]

early-October 1955: Uhrichsville, USA.

TWO WOMEN HERE REPORT SEEING FLYING SAUCERS

Flying saucers! That's what two local women say they spotted above rural Uhrichsville last Sunday.

Mrs.Albert Fanty, 314 Packer Street, Uhrichsville, said yesterday that she and her mother observed the fast-flying objects on two different occasions from the vatage point of the latter's home. According to Mrs.Fanty, the day's happenings began early in the morning when her mother spotted seven of the disc-shaped aircraft bunched at a high altitude.

Mrs. Burroway, mother of Mrs.Fanty later described the phenomenon to her daughter who had arrived for a visit at about 1:00 p.m. As the two women and Mrs.Fanty's 8-year-old son, Kenneth searched the sky, "three or four" of the flying saucers reappeared and then vanished several seconds later.

The saucers were described as seeming to have a silver coating as they whirled through the air. Mrs.Fanty said they followed each other in an irregular line and traveled at a high rate of speed - as if they had been shot from something. They were visible for only a few seconds, she said.

Almost immediately after the saucers disappeared the air became filled with "fine silken-like silver cobwebs which floated everywhere," Mrs.Fanty said.

A spokesman at the Aerial Phenomenon Section of the USAF base at Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, said he was unauthorized to comment on specific situations.'

[The Uhrichsville Chronicle, October 6, 1955 / M.K.Jessup, 1956]

October 10th, 1955: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Angel hair fall with UFO reported.

[Hall, 1964]

October 27th, 1955: Greensboro, Ohio, USA.

SAUCERS AGAIN

A former Air Force observer and 120 students and teachers reported sighting about ten flying saucers here today as wisps of "angel hair" fell from a cloudless sky.

The "angel hair" fits the description of similar material found at Burlington on October 10. The Burlington material was identified as spider webs carried by the wind.

There was no immediate explanation of the saucers. The control tower at Greensboro-High Point Airport said there was considerable jet plane activity over the area today, but most of the planes were at 20,000 feet or higher.

H.D.Lambeth, principal of Whitsett School and an aerial observer during World War II, said the saucers were visible between 2:45 and 3:10 p.m.

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"STEEL BALLS" FLY OVER FIBER FALLS

Civil Defense officials investigated today reports from an elementary school principal that he and over a hundred pupils watched objects "like steel balls" dart through the sky yesterday for twenty-five minutes, while "angel hair" fell among them.

H.D.Lambeth, Jr., who flew 46 combat missions as an aerial observer in World War II, said he watched the objects through a pair of biniculars while his students scattered around the school yard collecting the falling "angel hair."

He described the material as a light colored whispy stuff, similar to Christmas decoration or cotton candy. Most of it, he said, was in two and three inch strips.

Recently reports of similar "angel hair" came from nearby Burlington. It was described by some as spider web.

Lambeth said he was in the school when some children called to him. He said he caught sight of one of the "steel balls" and followed it with glasses. "I called to one of the teachers and she timed one of them from directly overhead until it reached the horizon. It took a minute and a half."

[Jessup, 1956]

July 10th, 1956 : Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

'Millions of web-like gossamer threads have drifted through Melbourne's seaside suburbs. They have hung from lines and wires, stuck to cars and to clothes, and have draped themselves around trees. The odd thing is that they vanish in a few hours.

The Commonwealth and Industrial organisation had six scientists study the threads. The gossamer has been tested with ethyl acetate, acetone, lactphenol blue dye. They magnified the threads a hundred times, burnt them, melted them, and changed them into orange.

They decided the threads were not wool, that they did not come from feathers, and that the stuff was not cotton. Neither was it wool-fibre, and they thought that it did not look like synthetic fibre.

[The Flying Saucer Review's World Roundup Of UFO Sightings And Events;
Edited by Brinsley Le Poer Trench (The Citadel Press, 1958)]

August 19th, 1956: St.Louis, Missouri, USA.

Fall of angel hair.

[Hall, 1964]

September 25th, 1956: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Angel hair fall analysed by AF, identified as rayon fibres.

[Hall, 1964]

September 30th, 1956: Cherry Valley, Illinois, USA.

'A UFO was observed, and afterward "angel hair".. was found.'

[Jay Rath The I-Files]

October 15th, 1956: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Fall of angel hair with UFO report.

[Hall, 1964]

October 16th, 1956: Fond de Lac, Wisconsin, USA.

Angel hair fall reported.

[Hall, 1964]

April 28th, 1957: Christchurch, New Zealand.

Angel hair fall reported.

[Hall, 1964]

circa-Summer 1957: South of Miami, Florida, USA.

{Event witnessed by Craig Phillips, a trained biologist and (then) curator of the Miami Seaquarium; Capt.W.B.Gray, collections director, and his assistant Emil Hanson. The three men were 'taking part in a specimen-collecting trip aboard the Seaquarium vessel Sea Horse..' - To Be Added}

[Cramp, 1966]

October 4th, 1957: Ichinoseki, North-East Japan.

'Photograph of 'Angel Hair'. It has been enlarged to ten times its actual size. This substance fell over N.E.Japan on 4 October, 1957. It is typical of similar mysterious substances dropped from UFOs all over the world.'

[Brinsley Le Poer Trench The Eternal Subject (Souvenir Press, 1973)]

October 17th, 1957: near Fatima, Portugal.

[Hall, 1964]

October 23rd & 24th, 1957: Eastern New Mexico, USA.

'..there was a typical fall of gossamer - a curious webby substance that occasionally falls by the ton from clear skies in autumn, and although it has never been known to be associated with spiders, is conventionally assumed to be spider web. It is, of course, identical with "angel hair." Its production by UFOs has been frequently observed, whereas the hypothetical production of gossamer by spiders has never been observed at all.
Characteristically, the cobwebby gossamer strands that drifted down on New Mexico were as much as fifty feet long, and "apparently were falling from a great height," in enormous quantities. The Portales (N.M.) News-Tribune of October 24 and 25 reported that the fall was "a lot heavier south of here...all the way to Hobbs" (110 miles south of Portales). Even near Portales the gossamer was so thickly draped as to interfere with broom-corn harvesting. It was a complete mystery to the local people, who had never heard of gossamer: it was apprehensively tested for radioactivity (it showed none), and one pundit in Albuquerque asserted that the threads were composed of "atmospheric dust" clumped together by static electrical charge. Eventually, however, "Dr. William Kister, University of New Mexico biologist, offered the spider-web explanation tentatively, without examining the material" (News-Tribune, Oct.27), and this was accepted as the solution to the mystery...'

[Alexander D.Mebane The 1957 Saucer Wave in the United States, in Aime Michel, 1958]

October 9th, 1958: Portales, New Mexico, USA.

[Hall, 1964]

October 11th, 1958: Humboldt County, California, USA.

'Strands of 5-6 feet, one report of 40 foot strand by airport dispatcher.'

[Hall, 1964]

November 11th, 1958: Trinidad, California, USA.

{To Be Added}

November 11th, 1958: Rio Dell, California, USA.

{To Be Added}

November 12th, 1958: Trinidad, California, USA.

{To Be Added}

July 13th, 1959: Kingsthorpe, Queensland, Australia.

October 26th-27th, 1959: Savannah, Georgia, USA.

[Hall, 1964]

November 2nd, 1959: Evora, Portugal.

[Morrell, 1981/96]

November 3rd, 1959: Centerville, Georgia, USA.

Angel hair with spider association.

[Hall, 1964]

August 5th, 1961: Meekatharra, Australia.

'It was reported in the Melbourne Sun on August 15 that twelve round flying objects - moving fast in pairs - were sighted by ten independent witnesses near Meekatharra on August 14. Meekathara is 480 miles north-east of Perth. The objects left a white trail of "streamers" which floated to the ground.

The fine mesh-like "streamers" crumbled and disappeared when picked up by startled watchers at Mt.Hale Station, 75 miles west of Meekatharra.

The silvery round objects passed over the station at regular intervals between 8.20 and 9.15 a.m. "They were flying at 8,000 to 10,000 feet about the same speed as the Russian Sputnik we saw a couple of years ago," said shearing contractor Edwin Payne, aged 37.

When the incident was reported to the police, Constable Jim Coyle checked with the Department of Civil Aviation, which said that no aircraft were in the area and no meteorological balloons had been sent up. "I picked up one of the "streamers," but it vanished in my hands as it touched my skin," said Mr.Payne. He then drove back to the station to see if he could find any more of the "streamers" with the aim of preserving them for analysis.

An official of the Royal Australian Air Force promised to make a report on the incident to the Department of Air. He even went so far as to say that the sighting was extremely interesting and that it could possibly produce some breakthrough into the mystery surrounding many flying object reports. We can only hope that his superiors will share his open-mindedness, but past experience does not encourage us to expect anything but silence.'

[David A.Carpmael / Flying Saucer Review Vol.7, No.6, 1961/Hall, 1964]

October 9th, 1961: Tondela, Portugal.

[Morrell, 1981/96]

October 14th, 1961: Sunset, Utah, USA.

'Witnesses including Mayor Michiel Burson watched several circular UFOs maneuver overhead, trailing long streamers of "stringy stuff." (Apparently the so-called "angel's hair" material sometimes reported as being discharged by UFOs.) The objects soared at reportedly high speeds, in this daylight sighting...'

[U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. II, No. 3]

November 8th, 1961: Chadron, Nebraska, USA.

'A threadlike deposit of "seemingly metallic fibers" was left on the Theodore Goff farm following sighting of a UFO. Mr.Goff attempted to preserve some of the substance by covering it with canvas, but it dissipated before investigators arrived. (Similar to other apparent "angel's hair" incidents.)...'

[U.F.O.Investigator, Vol. II, No. 3]

June 6th, 1962: Caroda, New South Wales, Australia.

'..at 11.20 a.m., six silent UFOs, erratically flying high in a cloudless sky, attracted the attention of residents of "Shalimar", Caroda. The first of these objects resembled a very brilliant star, and climbed slowly to an altitude slightly south of the zenith, where it became too small to be seen.

A few minutes later, a second silvery globe was observed travelling from the north, about half-way between the zenith and north-east horizon, then in an arc which brought it overhead. After completing a circle, it hovered for ten seconds, then moved off in a south-easterly direction until it was lost from view about 30 degrees above the horizon. Of all the objects, this one was the lowest and best defined, enabling its circular outline to be distinguished from the of an aircraft.

A third object appeared, resembling the first and following a similar route. Then aanother very high speck of light became visible in the west. It appeared to leave a trail of shiny, web-like filaments, which gradually disintegrated as they drifted through the air. two UFOs followed very high in the sky, and were seen for only a short while.

Mrs Jean Williams, her daughter Julie, and Mrs Marie Moore are agreed that, for some time afterwards, a hazy mist of light threads seemed to fill the sky. Mr S.Williams, who returned home later, noticed that these traces of silvery thread, which slowly disintegrated, were sometimes as long as five feet, and seemed to be of a fine nylon-like texture. Although a search was to no avail, he is convinced that the strange substance emanated from the flying saucrs which had passed overhead.'

[Hervey, 1969]

October 10th, 1962: Montreal, Canada.

Story of this event here.

October 1962: Utah, USA.

'Great globs of a white, sticky material fell from the sky on Thursday afternoon and settled in balls and sheets and threads over much of the Utah Power & Light Co. Gadsby Plant, 1407 W.North Temple. Some pieces were sixty to seventy feet long and gave the appearance of a tattered parachute. But the substance was sticky and disintegrated into nothing when stretched far enough. Some fifty employees first saw the white material high in the sky about 2 p.m.

Pete Beloz, a transmission engineer, said, "At first it looked like two or three parachutes coming down. Then as it came closer, we saw it was big globs of this stuff. A lot of it got tangled up in transmission lines, But it didn't cause any trouble. It was all over the place. I've never seen anything like it before."

He said some of it was in big balls, other parts were in sheets and threads. "It looked like a tarantula spider web," he said.

The material came from the north and fell from the sky for fifteen or twenty minutes, apparently mostly in the area of the Gadsby plant. No one knew what the mysterious substance was, but guesses ranged from something caused by the Hercules explosion on Wednesday afternoon to an invasion from outer space. Dr.Grant Wynn of the State Health Department, informed of the phenomenon on Friday, said he had no guess as to what the substance might be.'

[The Utah Desert News and Telegram, October 19,1962 / James D.Wardle / FSR Vol.9, No.1]

November 11th, 1962: Lakeland, Florida, USA.

Angel hair and UFO report - "Loops and whorls" of "gossamer filaments" observed in sky.

[Lakeland Ledger, November 12th, 1962/Hall, 1964]

January 1963: Puerto Garibaldi, Argentina.

'According to La Gaceta of January 17, flying saucers were seen recently over Puerto Garibaldi in the Province of Entre Rios, and "angel hair" was seen to fall from them. Subjected to careful analysis, the substance was found to consist of boron, silicon, calcium, and magnesium. "Angel hair" was also reported to have fallen at a place called El Nilo.'

Note: The elements stated in this analysis are exactly the same as those of the analysed sample that fell over Victoria, Australia, in October 1953, and also the principal constituents reportedly found in the sample that fell over Florence, Italy, in February 1954. Surely, no one reading these three accounts could lightly dismiss this common feature as mere coincidence - Daniel Transit 24.12.2000.

[Gordon Creighton 'Argentina 1963-64,' in Flying Saucer Review Vol.11, No.6, 1965]

October 13th, 1963: San Francisco, California, USA.

'NICAP Subcommittees are investigating an unconfirmed report of a hovering cylindrical UFO and fall of "angel's hair" in the early afternoon.'

[U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. II, No. 10]

July 1964: Greenville, Tennessee, USA.

'In July, thirteen-year-old Kathie Riney and her parents watched a round, lighted UFO hovering above the top of their neighbour's farm at Greenville, Tennessee at 11pm. The light from it reflected on the top of the barn; after five minutes the object shot straight up and vanished. As it left the area tree tops swayed back and forth as if disturbed by a violent wind. The next morning, upon closer investigation, threads of 'angel hair'-like substance were found covering the trees and bushes adjoining the farm.

A light pole had been knocked to the ground, thus cutting off the power to the farm, but what was even more puzzling was the fact that a bull calf had seemingly disappeared into thin air. The police were called in, but they were unable to explain the mystery.'

[Michael Hervey UFOs: The American Scene (Robert Hale, 1976)]

Beginning of October 1964: Whitsett, USA.

'..Mr.H.Lambeth, the principal of an elementary school.. witnessed a peculiar shower. He described it as "angel hair." More than a hundred of his pupils substantiated the fall which consisted of a "light coloured whispy material, similar to spun glass or cotton candy." '

[Hervey, 1976]

October 12th, 1966: Jonesboro, Tennessee, USA.

At midday, Mrs.Burnette S.Fox, Mrs.Jones, and neighbours saw a number of flying silvery objects discharge "some substance in sheets." It broke up into strands that looked like spider-web, and stuck to everything. It also burnt Mrs.Fox on one finger, and the witnesses became nauseous, felt itching sensations.

On the next Saturday, it rained - up until that time, itching sensations were felt by all people who went out into their backyards. Animals wouldn't go where the sticky strands had fallen.

[Gordon Creighton, FSR Vol.17, No.1 / UFO Investigator, Vol.III, No.10]

Letter to Flying Saucers magazine, August 1967

October 20th, 1967: Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA.

'Miami - (UFO SATELLITES AND ANGEL HAIR) (8:15 P.M.) Several witnesses reported the sighting of a "football-shaped" UFO with small satellite objects for 15 minutes above Miami. A short radio news item reported the fall of angel's hair in the vicinity of Cape Kennedy for the same date. Angel Hair falls from the sky have been related to the propulsion of UFOs and have been documented worldwide for the past 22 years in conjunction with UFO observation..'

[George D.Fawcett 'Florida Report,' in Flying Saucers, June 1970]

September 18th, 1968: Ste. Anne, Manitoba, Canada.

'At about 4.05 p.m. a farmer from the district of Steinbach saw a UFO shedding strands of "angel's hair".

"I was outside on my yard looking up at my hayshed which I was going to paint, when I saw three grey, football-shaped objects flying over from north to south", the farmer stated. He said that two UFOs appeared to be connected by a "long, white arc or loop", three times the length of the objects themselves. The third object was separate. The arc or loop which connected the two saucers, he said, "was white as steam" and appeared to be fraying near where it was connected to the one object. He called his wife to take a look at this strange sight which lasted about 15 seconds. The objects were estimated to be at an altitude of some 2 to 3 thousand feet. After the objects disappeared strange white strands of material began falling on power lines, trees and fences in the area. His 16 year old son collected some of the material, but noticed that most of it had disintegrated the next day. It was reported that scientists at the University of Manitoba are analyzing the floss-like stuff.'

[UFO Chronicle 2 / UFO Magazine, Cleveland, Ohio]

August 30th, 1969: Grafton, New South Wales, Australia.

Bill Chalker's account of his Angel Hair experience

Summer 1969: West Caldwell, New Jersey, USA.

'Another footnote to the mystery of silver string leads one to assume that it had been in existence for a long, long time; Mrs.A.Caggiano of Kramer Avenue, West Caldwell, called the paper to say that she had found a similar silver thread in her yard back in the summer of 1969. As she remembered it, the thread looked like a taut wire strung high between trees, disappearing into the sky.'
(see also August 1970)

[Hervey, 1976]

October 1969: St.Louis, Missouri, USA.

'Spider webby material floated out of the sky, mostly dissolving when touched. Remains analyzed were found to be of non-biological origin.'

[http://members.tripod.com/~Rhandi/namerica.html]

(Magonia) John Harney article 'Angel Hair' here.

October 5th, 1971: Monterey, California, USA.

'UFOs and spidery lines of webbing were seen here...'

[http://members.tripod.com/~Rhandi/namerica.html]

pre-October 19th, 1973: Shreveport, Springhill and Ruston, Louisiana, USA.

[see article below]

October 18th, 1973: Zachary, Louisiana, USA.

'Reports of UFO sightings in this area continued today - this time from Watson and Zachary.

R. E. Clark said that he saw an object that emitted swirling vapor trails in much the same manner as a jet, only circular in shape. "The vapor would swirl up in a circle, straighten out and then go up in a circle again," he said, adding that the sightings occurred at 6:30 A.M. today and were also seen by fellow workers at a Baton Rouge grocery, some 15 miles away.

"I thought I was crazy," Clark said, "but the butchers at the store saw it, too. We can't all be crazy."

In the other report, "angel hair," a long, white, silky substance that occasionally accompanies claims of UFO sightings, has been reported by a Zachary woman who said that two strings, about six feet in length, fell on her seven-year-old son yesterday.

The filmy, string-like substances were like the threads of spiderwebs, sometimes five to six feet in length. They were reported at Shreveport, at Springhill, and 60 miles away at Ruston, as well as Zachary.

[State Times, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 19.10.1973 / Robert Emenegger 'UFO's Past, Present and Future']

October 22nd, 1973: Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA.

'Sparkling, shiny, "angel hair" stuff drifting through the sky, and a UFO was seen to fly away...'

[http://members.tripod.com/~Rhandi/namerica.html]

October 4th, 1975: Nagoya City, Aichi, Japan.

'At about 14:00 in the early afternoon of 4 October of 1975, high school student Hirohito Tanaka watched a small bell-shaped flying object descend to near ground level in a "falling-leaf" kind of motion. It left a trail of white vapor or exhaust in its wake as it flew. Near the ground it steadied, levelled off, and flew away horizontally until it was out of sight. Again he grabbed his camera and ran to the balcony where he managed to snap several black and white photographs of the ship. When the white trail drifted to the ground it was found to consist of spider-web-like filiamentary substance that evaporated away in a few minutes. The white material seemed to be ejected from the top part of the small ship.'

This is one of the photographs of the small craft observed by Hirohito Tanaka, which seemed to eject the white material from its top part.

[Special Exception Authorization - Text/photo from Wendelle C.Stevens & August C.Roberts
UFO Photographs Around The World Vol.2 (UFO Photo Archives, 1985)]

October 13th, 1974: Fremont, California, USA.

The events covered by this diary note began at 9.45am...'Finished motorcycle ride - in backyard on a brilliantly clear day. Thought occurred to look up. Saw strange filament of angel's hair descending - mostly vaporizing. (Some landed, and my daughter observed it under her microscope.) Disk appeared, going south to north (looking to the west, sun to rear). Observed it with binoculars - form indefinite - white glow about it; dark surfaces sometimes visible in the form. Disappeared to north. I went to drainage ditch at direction of definite thought. After ten minutes, just as ready to leave, again a direct thought to look one more time. Looked to the west at 45 degrees - disk again visible. Grew larger as it approached directly toward me (perspective change), till about the size of a nickel at arm's length. Directly overhead, it turned 90 degrees to a northerly heading. Angel's hair fell about one hour more.'

[From notes sent with letter to President Jimmy Carter by unnamed correspondent, 28.4.1977,
in Larry W.Bryant (Ed.) UFO Politics at the White House]

October 7th, 1976: Willits, California, USA.

'..At about 10:30 (in the) morning children and teachers at Willits' Brookside School observed what looked like a "small plane" circling overhead. Suddenly hundreds of "white dots," some hooked together with long loops of string-like material, began drifting toward the ground.

Playground supervisor Jean Gibson examined the stuff and found it to be sticky, stringy, and quite unlike anything she had ever seen before.

That afternoon Christy Kostanecki found a wad of it while riding her horse through the pasture behind her house. Her father, Highway Patrolman Mike Kostanecki, had seen it fall out of the sky and heard the sound of a plane, though he did not observe the aircraft. Christy's mother, Joanna Kostanecki, said the material was "like cobwebs, only of a heavier consistency."

Authorities could shed no light on the matter. Witnesses remarked, however, on an "eerie feeling of something unexplainable" as they watched the mysterious substance drift quietly to the ground.'

[Willits News, October 13, 1976 / Jerome Clark, Saga UFO Report, June 1977]

February 2nd, 1977: Lisbon, Portugal.

[Morrell, 1981/96]

September 1977: River Douro, Portugal.

[Morrell, 1981/96]

October 11th, 1977: San Francisco, USA.

[Morrell, 1981/96]

September 30th, 1979: West Jutland.

[Morrell, 1981/96]

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The UFO Report, May 1986.

Ellie Crystal's Angel Hair experiences, 1989-91

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October 28th, 1989: near Southbourne, U.K.

[This account was re-printed in FSR 34-2 under the heading "ANGELS' HAIR", OR - AS THE CRITICS SAY - DETERGENT?]

'Sea Shroud Mystery

AN emergency alert was sparked off when a mystery cloud engulfed two fishing vessels in a "spider's web" off Southbourne yesterday. / Fine, clear white fibres, 50-100ft. long, drifted from the middle of the English Channel for at least three hours, according to the skipper of the Da Calypso, Les James.

I have never seen anything like it in 25 years' fishing. It was crawling all over the boat like a fine spider's web", said Mr.James, of Kingsbere Avenue, Bournemouth. / Mr.James said the fibres covered both his boat, and the nearby vessel May Seven, two miles off Southbourne.

A team from Christchurch Council's environmental health department went out to sea to investigate. / The four-man squad scoured the waters off Christchurch in a patrol boat and came across a foam-like substance on the surface.

"We simply put some soap on the water, and our results satisfied us that it was a harmless detergent", a spokesman said.'

[Bournemouth Evening Echo, October 29, 1989]

October 3rd, 1991: Dordogne region, France.

'..Following accounts that a 'strange cloud' and other unidentified lights had affected television transmissions and created electromagnetic disturbances, the police were called in by worried residents ..a white filament-like material had covered powerlines and trees.'

[Mark Ian Birdsall, UFO July/August 1996]

March 27th, 1997: Billings, Oklahoma, USA.

At 6.45pm, 'a trail of odd strands of material' left by a very large diamond-shaped object, which had hovered for several minutes. The male witness stated - '..I tried to touch some, but when I did, it evaporated..'

[http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/v02/rnd02_28.shtml#10]

September 21st, 1997: California.

'..a strange fibrous substance, sometimes called "angel hair," fell in two cities east of Santa Cruz.. The fall was centered around Watsonville.. located 24 miles east of Santa Cruz. Strands were also found in nearby Fulton..' The strands were described as '..translucent fibrous substance.. about three feet long and faced every which way.. It's like you took a piece of wet chewing gum and stretched it with your fingers. It had strands. Then it went straight up into the sky like a hot-air balloon.' (Robert Franklin, airport operator at Watsonville airport)

[UFO Roundup Vol.2 No.37]

August 19th, 1998: Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia.

(AP) - Twenty UFOs, described as "shiny silver spheres," flew over a number of farms near Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia last weekend, littering the ground with cobweb-like filaments called "angel hair." According to USA Today, "Residents of a small Australian community swear cobwebs fell from the sky after UFOs passed overhead. Dozens of residents of Quirindi called Australia's National UFO Hotline after the incident." According to the Tamworth NSW North Daily Leader, "Mrs.E.Stansfield, 61 years, said that she saw cobwebs falling from the sky. She saw twenty silver balls which passed overhead. When she went out to her daughter, she too was covered in fine strands of cobweb. When she tried to pick it up, it disintegrated in her hand. The family car had cobwebs all over it."

The incident took place at 5:04 p.m. on Sunday, August 9, 1998. Quirindi is just north of the Liverpool Mountain range, about 70 kilometers (42 miles) southwest of Tamworth, N.S.W. and 300 km (180 miles) northwest of Sydney. Australian researcher Raymond Brooks reported that the "various craft" performed aerobatic maneuvers over the farms "for 1.5 hours, including the release of 'angel hair'.."

Investigation of Quirindi event

June 9th, 1999: Esperance, Western Australia.

Reports of angel hair, 10am-3pm, over a 10,000 sq.km. area.

Account here - http://www.ozemail.com.au/~amilani/wa-sightings.html

September 19th-20th, 2000: Romney, West Virginia, USA.

At 7.00pm, Rusty Rutherford heard a loud "Droning" sound, like a large airplane - it lasted for about an hour.

The next morning, the witness found angel hair-type material in the surrounding area.

Full account, with colour photographs here

Comments by others regarding this event

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Judy Beebe/The Golden Key - Childhood familiarity with angel hair.

Bill Weller/UFO Information International - Angel Hair.