E-006524LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: approximateRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
Craig Phillips Florida Offshore Gossamer Fall
approximately summer 1957Off Florida coast south of Miami, Florida offshore, United States
Biologist Craig Phillips, Capt. W. B. Gray and Emil Hanson reported fine cobweb-like strands drifting down for hours off Florida; Phillips collected strands in a jar but later found no trace of the material.
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“Biologist Craig Phillips, Capt. W. B. Gray and Emil Hanson reported fine cobweb-like strands drifting down for hours off Florida; Phillips collected strands in a jar but later found no trace of the material.”
“Three-person observation with a trained biologist, but no retained sample exists. A natural spider-web explanation remains plausible and Hall explicitly calls the evidence poor.”
“Hall says NICAP did not presently consider angel's hair significant evidence of UFOs and that many cases were plainly cobwebs spun by ballooning spiders.”
SRC-002107 · Angel's-hair significance and spider-web caveat; uploaded PDF pp. 187-188
SUPPORTS
CLAIM-693020reported
“Hall's catalogue contains 43 gossamer/angel's-hair cases; visible unidentified objects were reported in 23, rapid dissipation in 12, and 7 of those 12 also had visual UFO sightings.”
SRC-002107 · Angel's-hair catalogue statistics; uploaded PDF pp. 189-190
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CLAIM-693021reported
“Hall concludes that material which disappears before it can be analyzed does not constitute good physical evidence, while non-dissipating samples show no single pattern and may have many causes.”