On that occasion one of the most massive UFO sightings in history took place: around 10 thousand people who were in the Artemio Franchi stadium watching the encounter between Fiorentina and Pistoiese witnessed the appearance of unidentified flying objects in the skies above the stadium. According to the testimony of one of the players present in that match, defender Ardico Magnini, who was something of a legend at the club and had played for Italy at the World Cup. Everyone was looking up and also there was some glitter coming down from the sky, silver glitter.
We were absolutely shocked. That unknown substance did not only fall on the court, but it covered a good part of Florence before evaporating. Those who came into contact with this material describe it as similar to cotton but ungraspable as it disintegrated on contact. An explanation, rare but scientific, of this phenomenon, arrived many years later: it could have been large networks of connected webs, which appeared in the sky as globes, shining by the reflection of the Sun since that is how spiders migrate.
In he told an Italian television programme, Voyager, how on that day he received hundreds of phone calls about the sightings. From the offices of La Nazione in the centre of town his own view of the sky was blocked by the Cathedral, so he went up to the top of the newspaper's building to see what everyone was talking about.
The year-old recalled seeing "shiny balls" moving fast towards the dome of the Cathedral. Batini ventured out to investigate. He came across a wood outside the city that was covered in the white fluff. He gathered several samples by rolling them up on a matchstick, and took them to the Institute of Chemical Analysis at the University of Florence. When he got there he found that others had done the same.
The lab, led by respected scientist Prof Giovanni Canneri, subjected the material to spectrographic analysis and concluded that it contained the elements boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium, and that it was not radioactive. Unfortunately this did not provide any conclusive answers - and the material was destroyed in the process.
Could it have come from a UFO? From the Grasslands Observatory in South Eastern Arizona he has spent more than 40, hours staring at the night sky. Not to mention the additional hours he's spent in the cockpit of US fighter jets. In McGaha's view, the whole spectacle, "angel hair" and all, was nothing more than migrating spiders. They can be cigar-shaped with pieces breaking off. But it became fairly apparent that this was actually caused by young spiders spinning webs, very, very thin webs.
They just fly on the wind and these things have been recorded at 14, feet above the ground. So, when the sunlight glistens off this, you get all kinds of visual effects. This theory is backed up by the fact that September and October are the months when spiders in the northern hemisphere migrate - and spectacular spider migrations still make headlines today.
But it hasn't convinced everyone. It's an old story and also a stupid story," says Pinotti. He disputes the spider theory because of the chemical analysis of the "angel hair" samples. Spider silk is a protein - an organic compound containing nitrogen, calcium, hydrogen and oxygen - not the elements reportedly found in the samples Batini and others brought to the university. This is a real phenomenon. Main Menu U.
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