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44 lines
2.2 KiB
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SUBJECT: ANGEL HAIR - UFOs ? FILE: UFO2412
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It was the strangest sight to ever grace the sky over Oloron, France. In the
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early afternoon of October 17, 1952, according to one of the many witnesses,
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high school superintendent Jean-Yves Prigent, there appeared a "cottony cloud
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of strange shape. . . . Above it, a narrow cylinder, apparently inclined at
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a 45-degree angle, was slowly moving in a straight line toward the southwest.
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. . . A sort of plume of white smoke was escaping from its upper end."
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In front of this "cylinder" were 30 smaller objects that, when viewed through
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opera glasses, proved to be red spheres, each surrounded by a yellow ring.
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"These 'saucers' moved in pairs," Prigent said, "following a broken path
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characterized in general by rapid and short zigzags. When two saucers drew
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away from one another, a whitish streak, like an electric arc, was produced
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between them."
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But this was only the beginning of the strangeness. A white, hairlike
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substance rained down from all of the objects, wrapping itself around
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telephone wires, tree branches, and the roofs of houses. When observers picked
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up the material and rolled it into a ball, it turned into a gelatinlike
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substance and vanished. One man, who had observed the episode from a bridge,
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claimed the material fell on him, and he was able to extract himself from it
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only by cutting his way clear - at which point the material collected itself
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and ascended.
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A nearly identical series of events occurred in Gaillac, France, ten days
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later.
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Such "angel hair" is reported from time to time. Laboratory analysis of
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authentic material (airborne cobwebs are sometimes mistaken for angel hair) is
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impossible because the material always vanishes. In the summer of 1957, when
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Craig Phillips (director of the National Aquarium from 1976 to 1981) witnessed
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a fall off the Florida coast, he collected samples and placed them in sealed
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jars. But by the time he got to his laboratory, they were gone.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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