The 27th October 1954, was a day that has survived in UFO'ology.
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| Newspaper Illustration Of The Events |
In Tuscany, Italy, Fiorentina football club was playing against its local rival Pistoiese, with ten thousand fans in the Stadio Artemi Franchi. Just after half-time, the crowd fell eerily silent ..... all eyes looked to the sky.
The players and officials, sensing something had happened allowed the ball to roll off the pitch and also scanned the clear autumn skies over the stadium, to see the same thing as the crowd. Drifting lazily across the sky was an 'an egg' shaped object, that was apparently dropping something glittery which was coming down from the sky ... it was described as like 'silver glitter' ..... and its been reported all over the world as 'angel hair'.
Others claimed to see 'multiple objects moving very fast', and then just stopped dead in the sky ... these were described as 'being like Cuban cigars'.
The referee, possibly aware of the ridicule he risked, reported that the game was stopped 'because spectators saw something in the sky' in his referee's match report.
You might want to consider 'mass hysteria', especially as the descriptions differ as to what was being seen, but there were apparently numerous other UFO sightings, in many towns across Tuscany reported that day, and over the days that followed ... so whatever it was that was happening, it was seen across the region and not just in one stadium.
Analysis of the 'angel hair' collected at the time from a local wood, where it had covered many trees, concluded that it contained the elements boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium, and that it was not radioactive ... but as the tests in those days destroyed the samples, we can't re-subject it to modern tests.
Sounds like the definitive UFO event doesn't it ......
However, astronomer James McGaha (and former US Air Force pilot), working from the Grasslands Observatory in South Eastern Arizona has said the 'angel hair' and the drifting objects is almost certainly attributable to migrating spiders. These young spiders spin very, very thin webs which are carried by the wind .... "The spiders use these webs as sails and they link together and you get a big glob of this stuff in the sky and the spiders ride on this to move between locations. They just fly on the wind and these things have been recorded at 14,000 feet above the ground. So, when the sunlight glistens off this, you get all kinds of visual effects. As some of this stuff breaks off and falls to the ground, this all seems magical of course, but I'm fairly confident that's what happened that day."
Sadly, this analysis is also backed up by the fact that September and October are the months when spiders in the northern hemisphere migrate - and spectacular spider migrations are commonly reported across Europe and North America.
But for those who like to retain the mystery of all these events ..... Fact: Spider silk is a protein - an organic compound containing nitrogen, calcium, hydrogen and oxygen and not normally 'boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium' ..... make of that what you will.
Others claimed to see 'multiple objects moving very fast', and then just stopped dead in the sky ... these were described as 'being like Cuban cigars'.
The referee, possibly aware of the ridicule he risked, reported that the game was stopped 'because spectators saw something in the sky' in his referee's match report.
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| The Press Recorded It Widely |
You might want to consider 'mass hysteria', especially as the descriptions differ as to what was being seen, but there were apparently numerous other UFO sightings, in many towns across Tuscany reported that day, and over the days that followed ... so whatever it was that was happening, it was seen across the region and not just in one stadium.
Analysis of the 'angel hair' collected at the time from a local wood, where it had covered many trees, concluded that it contained the elements boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium, and that it was not radioactive ... but as the tests in those days destroyed the samples, we can't re-subject it to modern tests.
Sounds like the definitive UFO event doesn't it ......
However, astronomer James McGaha (and former US Air Force pilot), working from the Grasslands Observatory in South Eastern Arizona has said the 'angel hair' and the drifting objects is almost certainly attributable to migrating spiders. These young spiders spin very, very thin webs which are carried by the wind .... "The spiders use these webs as sails and they link together and you get a big glob of this stuff in the sky and the spiders ride on this to move between locations. They just fly on the wind and these things have been recorded at 14,000 feet above the ground. So, when the sunlight glistens off this, you get all kinds of visual effects. As some of this stuff breaks off and falls to the ground, this all seems magical of course, but I'm fairly confident that's what happened that day."
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| Spider Balls Are Common |
Sadly, this analysis is also backed up by the fact that September and October are the months when spiders in the northern hemisphere migrate - and spectacular spider migrations are commonly reported across Europe and North America.
But for those who like to retain the mystery of all these events ..... Fact: Spider silk is a protein - an organic compound containing nitrogen, calcium, hydrogen and oxygen and not normally 'boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium' ..... make of that what you will.
Another reminder to the Foo Fighters, "U" stands for Unidentified, and these Objects remain Unidentified until they have been Identified ! Until then, there's no justification for leaping to the most unlikely theories and conclusions. Giant floating Cuban cigars are more likely than other world spaceships.
ReplyDeleteAs the term 'Foo Fighters' originally comes from a nonsense word used in a cartoon strip from the early 1930's, and was applied to what later became known as 'UFO's' by USAF WWII fighters, that probably sums it up ....
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