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Fear, however, is not as generally expressed by UFO sighters as a sense of the uncanny. This is almost universal in the reports and indicates a definite feeling among the observers that they have seen an other-worldly

phenomenon. Note the following expressions used in connection with sightings:

November 14, 1956, near Mobile, Alabama. An airlines pilot, Captain Hull, upon seeing a zigzagging object during flight along with his copilot, said: "Macintosh and I sat there completely flabbergasted at this unnerving exhibition. ..."

September 8, 1958, SAC headquarters. Upon sighting a hovering UFO, one officer among others stated: "We watched in awe for several minutes."

August 3, 1951, Silver Lake, Michigan. Walter N. Webb, astronomer, saw a yellow light making peculiar motions in the sky and averred later: "I had seen something strange in the sky that I could not explain. No known object (on earth) I could think of followed a path like that."

March 16, 1961, aboard an icebreaker near Antarctica. Rubens J. Villela, an experienced Moon-watch (satellite) observer, spied a luminous teardrop whose appearance was "out of this world. I can think of nothing on earth which would reproduce the phenomenon."

June 30, 1954, over the North Atlantic south of Goose Bay , Labrador. A BOAC pilot, Captain Howard, upon seeing a "blob" UFO pacing the plane for 18 minutes, called it the "strangest eighty-five-mile journey in my life. ... Maneuverable and controlled intelligently. ... It must have been some weird form of spaceship from another world."

August 1, 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio. George F. Kyle, fire inspector at a GE plant, saw an oval shape as big as the moon and said it was "hard to believe and was like a dream."

Winter 1952, near Stockholm, Sweden. A farm couple saw a disc that seemed on fire yet abruptly faded out of view, and the woman said their skin pricked and "got goose pimples" at the eerie apparition.

Angel Hair

The pattern of unearthly phenomena connected with UFO's goes in other directions besides human reactions. One of the oddest mysteries is the so-called "angel hair" seemingly dropped at times by saucers flying overhead, as mentioned briefly before.

Angel hair as seen under a microscope.

But there are many more cases from all over the world through the past 20 years, again bearing the stamp of a repeated reality. The angel hair had often been touched and even gathered for later analysis, but it always "evaporated" or otherwise disintegrated swiftly before reaching a laboratory.

Incidentally, in both the French sightings at Oloron and Gaillac of the same cigar-shaped mother ship, fluffy angel hair was reported to have drifted down, and "for several hours clumps of it hung in the trees, on the telephone wires, and on the roofs of the houses."

A more detailed account of this UFO "discharge" is as follows:

November 16, 1953, Reseda, California , sighting by Mrs. Louis Dangelo. In her own words:

"We were watching three jet planes. Then, behind them, we saw a huge silvery ball ... it moved up and down and even sideways. Finally, a long streamer of white stuff, almost like a vapor trail, spewed out of its back end. "It detached itself from the ball and began settling earthward. It spread out, stringy sort of, like white wool being shredded, and it dropped down all over the neighborhood like cobwebs. ..."

The term "cobweb" is often used by those witnessing this queer white material exuded by UFO's. The anti-UFO critics seized upon this to "explain" all such angel hair as the well-known migration of newly hatched tiny spiders, who spin out cobwebby fluff and ride it in the wind like "balloonists."

However, no entomologist has yet explained how this can occur in the winter, too, since the spiders migrate only in the spring and the fall. It seems almost stupid for scientists to offer such explanations that are so patently erroneous.

From the list of 17 cases compiled by Professor Charles Maney, the following reports speak for themselves: May 30, 1953, Palmerston, New Zealand. "Four round objects glistening in the sun threw off some kind of whitish substance ... a white silky strip about twelve feet long settled on a tree."

October 13, 1953, Pleasant Hill, California. "The ball was about three times the size of a full moon. ... Suddenly a stream of white lacy substance flowed from the ball."

November 16, 1953, San Fernando, California. "After ten or fifteen seconds the object ... emitted some shining cobweb like substance which began to drift to earth."

October 22, 1954, Marysville, Ohio. "Fifteen thousand spectators at a football match watched a flight of saucers which dropped candy-floss type streamers."

The entomologists might have difficulty denying that 15,000 witnesses saw that flight of UFO's drop down angel hair.

Professor Maney also gathered quotes from various witnesses, describing the strange properties of the cobwebby strands:

"When rolled up into a ball, they rapidly became gelatinous, then sublimed in the air and disappeared." "Quickly disintegrated when handled."

"Held between the fingers, it dissolves into nothing."

Fading Saucers

Another uncanny set of phenomena displayed by many UFO's, according to eyewitnesses, is the peculiar ways saucers will appear or disappear, falling in the following categories:

Saucers that just fade from sight without growing smaller or receding in the distance. Bright saucers seen at night that suddenly "blink out."

Saucers that have "fuzzy" outlines.

Saucers that appear in a misty "cloud" of their own and usually "dissolve" into a cloud again. Saucers that seem to dive straight to the ground, leaving no wreckage, at least none officially admitted.

All of these may be lumped together as indicating that UFO's can do "tricks" that no machine or object on earth ever can. One theory is that the UFO's do not speed through the huge gulfs of space, from their home world to earth, but enter a "dimension door" and appear in the wink of an eye.

Yes, this is the old science fiction "gimmick" of the convenient "space warp," which allows the author to whisk his space hero anywhere in short order and thus not delay the story's action.

UFO truth may be stranger than fiction - the saucerians may have made this earthly "plot device" come true. Certainly this would make it much more reasonable and understandable that so many saucers are constantly flitting around earth, perhaps coming originally from a star system unthinkable light-years away. If they can simply "fade into" earth's skies, then "fade home" again in mere seconds, one of the major arguments against the

existence of UFO's would be eliminated - that the saucerians from any star more than 30 light-years away would spend an entire lifetime, if equal to ours, just going back and forth once.

The UFOnauts may utilize tremendous secrets of space and time we know nothing about that make travel through the universe fantastically easy. Who knows?