WEBS FALL OVER
GALVESTON TEXAS
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Fuzzy Strands Fill Skies Over Texas City (tinfoil alert)
Posted on 12/21/2002 7:33 PM PST
by
Dallas
GALVESTON, Texas --
Galveston residents are still trying to figure out what caused the
skies over their coastal city to literally be filled on Friday with
floating strands of wads that looked like spider webs.
The webs were visible in the air for five hours, and poles were left
wrapped with the sticky strands and fuzzy wads.
"It blew my mind. I have never seen anything like it before," said
Lorenzo DeLacerta, who saw the webs about noon when he delivered
building material to a site a mile east of the San Louis Pass Bridge.
DeLacerta said he called his sister, Gloria, who saw the same thing in
the sky over nearby La Marque, The Galveston County Daily News
reported Saturday.
A spokesman at the National Weather Service Office in League City said
the service had received no reports of flying webs -- and that flying
webs weren't really their thing.
The phenomenon has occurred in at least two other places. The
Associated Press reported Oct. 8 that "long, floating spider webs"
were "bobbing through the skies of Santa Cruz, Calif., ... confusing
some community members concerned about biological weapons, UFOs and
other phenomena."
And the Wallowa Chieftain in Oregon reported on Dec. 22, 2000, the
sightings of "web-like material ... falling from the sky" that some
locals thought came "from three military jets that had been flying
back and forth in an east-west flight pattern at high altitude."
A University of Wyoming microbiology professor attributed the webs in
Santa Cruz to young spiders that launch themselves on their homemade
parachutes after hatching to be blown to a new home.
In Wyoming, dozens of the webs can been seen floating across the
prairie in the spring, the professor was quoted as saying in the AP
story.
However, on the Internet, some conspiracy connoisseurs remain
convinced the webs are man-made and could be part of an elaborate
government plot.