ANGEL HAIR
Discovered falling from the sky, reports describe it as web-like filaments of white silky material in strands of anything up to 50 feet long. It can also be very strong, as the captain of the ship Roxburgh Castle found in an incident in 1962. He noticed white filaments over therailings of his vessel, with small cocoons of the same material still floating down from the sky. When the captain tried to pull the strands away, he could scarcely break them. Yet, within minutes, the material had disappeared. A scientist who has analysed Angel Hair concluded: "My research has shown that Angel Hair is very unstable and it degrades in oxygen. Shortly after falling on the ground, it usually disappears. A few specimens have been preserved, when, shortly after falling, they have been sealed in air-tight containers. Analysis has shown that its structure contains silicon, magnesium, calcium and boron. The strands in our laboratories are therefore not alien to the earth, yet they are very strange indeed. I cannot say whether it comes from UFOs."
Source: Aliens: Encounters With The Unexpected by Marcus Day

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