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Fuzzy Strands Fill Skies Over Texas City GALVESTON, Texas - 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. A spokesman at the National Weather Service 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. 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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