posted 12-22-2002 08:09 PM            

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 (news - web sites) 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.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021222/ap_on_fe_st/tx_floa ting_spider_webs_1
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CHEMTRAIL OBSERVER'S COMMENT:

These are not spider webs--I know from personal exprience, and I
paid dearly for my interest in them. In 1998 I saw the same thing
that is in the article I am posting. I was told the same thing--that
they were spider webs. Being a person who has to see for my own eyes,
I stood under the falling strands to see the spiders at the end of the
strands--there were no spiders!!!!!!! The next day I woke up
sick as a dog and feeling death would be welcome because of the pain
in every bone, muscle, and cell in my body--I was not able to
even roll over in bed. I ran a fever that was 103 and honestly
wanted to die rather than feel the pain I went through. I was unable to
go to work for three days, and then was still weak and sore for more than
a week after. Please do not touch these strands, and make sure your kids
know not to touch them also.

Heidi