Thomas Brewer tbrewer@gci.net writes: While driving back to Alaska on Nov. 11th traveling up I-5 approximately 30 miles north of Sacramento and continuing to Red Bluff I saw a strange substance falling from or floating in the sky.

I noticed strings of fiber like material of varying lengths, a few inches to many feet long (up to 50), floating at various elevations above the highway. After maybe 10-15 miles of seeing this and noticing some along the shoulders and on the roadway I stopped at a rest area and saw many strings of this attached to trees, signs, and on the lawn. I used a straw and twirled strings of it into a ball about the size of a golf ball and put in a drink cup with lid and put in a zip lock bag. That sample today is about half the original size.

These ranged from clusters half the size of my hand, to rope like diameters ball point pen size, down to spider web size. As I collected the sample some of the thinner strings attacked to my arm and seemed to have a sticky, almost suction type attachment. A burning sensation followed for about 10 minutes after pulling off of arm, even after washing at rest area restroom. No apparent skin irritation appeared.

One rope like strand, about 12-15 feet long was horizontal across the road at about 3 feet and stuck to my vehicle from the far left bumper, up across the headlights and grille and continued up across the hood to the bottom edge of the windshield. This is still visible today, although shrunk to a thin thread, however, it survived approximately 1,000 miles of rain and 1,600 miles of snow on the balance of the trip to Anchorage.

I took the sample to a lab here in Anchorage and the CEO was amazed at it but said no lab here was capable of analyzing it and referred me to a lab in Colorado. He asked for my name and number (I thought that was strange since he couldn't help me) and the next morning he called me to say that I should be very careful with this material. He had done some research since I left his lab the day before and said similar substances had been collected in 22 states over the past year and he believed it could have some harmful bacteria associated with it. His estimate for me to get this tested was from $275 to $10,000. I am not able to do an expensive test but am willing to send sample to someone that can test it or has an interest in this sample.

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