"Angel hair" is a cobweb-like, gelatinous mass that sometimes falls to the ground, and evaporates after a few hours. (In the hands "hair" melts or turns into foul-smelling lumps). In Italy, they are known as "silicon wool", in France, "a gift from the Madonna." Regardless of their name, their appearance is traditionally associated with UFOs.
It is believed that the first mention of them can be found in a papyrus of the time of Pharaoh Thutmose III, which is kept in the collection of the director of the Egyptian department of the Vatican Museum and describes the following phenomenon:
“In the twenty-second year, in the third month of winter, at 6 pm, the scribes of the House of Life saw a moving circle of fire in the sky. Its dimensions were one cubit long and one cubit wide. They fell on their faces and reported to Pharaoh, and he pondered over this event. After several days these objects in the sky became numerous and shone brighter than the sun. And Pharaoh, together with the army, looked at them. By evening, the fiery circles rose higher and moved towards the south … A volatile matter fell from the sky … This has not happened since the foundation of the Earth … And Pharaoh burned incense to the gods and ordered that the incident be recorded in the annals of the House of Life.
Later references include observation from November 16, 1857, Charleston, USA. At night, bright "comets" scurried over the city, and in the morning there were a lot of cobwebs everywhere, but only without spiders. And in 1881, in Milwaukee, USA, the sky was completely covered with angelic hair, which made an indelible impression on the locals. The information was published in Scientific American magazine.
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They began to be directly linked to UFOs in October 1954. On October 27, Gennaro Lucetti and Pietro Lastrucci sat on the balcony of a hotel in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. At the same time, they noticed two spindle-shaped objects that, spinning, floated across the sky. Traces like white flames followed. The objects followed at high speed across the sky, made a smooth 180-degree turn and disappeared over the horizon. A few minutes later, participants and spectators of a football match in Florence were able to observe the UFO. At the same time, in addition to teams and referees, about 10 thousand spectators, as well as journalists, were present at the stadium. The match had to be interrupted as everyone's attention was riveted on the flying cigars. But even then it was not possible to resume the game - it turned out that the entire football field was covered with a transparent sticky web.
Among the attempts to explain the phenomenon, the following hypotheses can be distinguished:
- American ufologist Charles Mainey suggested that "angel hair" is the material result of the operation of UFO engines, which are thrown out like the exhaust gases of internal combustion engines. He explains the rapid evaporation of the remains by the fact that such a substance is very unstable in our reality and disappears, moving into a more familiar space-time.
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- Other ufologists have suggested that the heavenly web is the materialization of certain spiritual forces, like the ectoplasm that appears during spiritualistic séances.
- In 2001, Nikolay Subbotin, director of the Russian UFO Research Station RUFORS, introduced the term "chemtrail" into everyday life, which was a literal translation of a similar foreign concept "chemtrail". He suggested that this substance is formed after flights in the atmosphere of aircraft of a certain design as a result of their spraying of certain chemicals.
“Entomologists say there is no mystery, and this fibrous substance is just a mass of broken cobwebs carried by the wind. In support of their theory, they cite the example of tiny liniths, which, although they do not have wings, are able to fly through the air in a rather original way. The spider simply unfolds its body in the wind and releases a long thin thread from the back. As soon as the wind lifts the thread into the air, the spider grabs it tightly and thus travels fairly decent distances.
However, none of these hypotheses can be considered strictly scientific: the first two explain the phenomenon through not scientifically proven things, the existence of "chemtrails" described by N. Subbotin has not been proven either. From it follows that the entomological hypothesis has not yet found practical confirmation.