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groovehouse
01-11-03, 11:16 PM
Fuzzy Strands Fill Skies Over Texas City (http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20021221_1365.html)
Mysterious, Spider Web-Like Strands Fill Skies Over Galveston, Texas

The Associated Press
GALVESTON, Texas Dec. 21 —

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.

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Chemtrail Central (http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/)


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Pistol Pete
01-12-03, 01:12 AM
Check this this out. Those aren't fuel nozzles. I'm hoping Mando can shed some light on this.

BTW, we've had them here for a few years and always from what look like contrails from about 50K feet. Sometimes a clear, blue morning sky would become overcast from the release in about 2 hours. I grew up with B-47s & B-52s flying in and out and over all the time and the height is about right.

Mando
01-13-03, 08:21 AM
Hmmm, dunno what that is (maybe Eagle 3 does). It can’t be a KC-135, there is no refueling boom on the tail. As for drogue baskets, they are always out on the wingtip’s and off the center tail boom (when configured). It could be one of the older C-135’s jettisoning fuel but the fuel jettison probes are usually out on the wingtips.

Also, sorry to say this, but, 50,000 feet is a bit high for this type aircraft. Max is normally 45k and then only for a short time. The air is too thin up there for the airfoil to produce efficient lift. What ends up happening is the airplane does a porpoise act and bobs up and down. Heavy aircraft usually leave anything above 42k to planes like the U-2, A-12, or other super secret planes like that.

Pistol Pete
01-13-03, 08:52 AM
I asked Eagle and he doesn't know either :what:

Whatever is coming out isn't flamable because they'd never have an ignitable spray in the vortex of the exhaust.