On 06 Jan 98, concerning _Skeptic's corner._, James Root said to Troy H. 
Cheek in UFO:
 THC>> For all I know, it was ordinary spiders at work.  Like I
 THC>> said originally, at the time I had heard nothing about
 THC>> angel hair and did not link it at all with the UFO I'd been
 THC>> following through the area.  If I had, I might have tried
 THC>> collecting a sample.
 JR> 
 JR> I myself, personally had and "angel hair" experience, years ago as a 
re-
 JR> teen when one sunny afternoon suddenly from the sky above the area
 JR> surrounding our cottage in Lake Simcoe (40 miles North of Toronto, 
Canada)
 JR> was "rained on" by enourmous amounts of spider webs. After a closer
 JR> inspection one could actually see that there were very tiny black 
piders
 JR> also falling which were mixed in with the spider webs that they had
 JR> obviously produced as a result of the free fall that they were subjected
 JR> to. How they actually became airborne in the first place is the curious
 JR> thing. (Updraft?)
I've read somewhere that some species of spiders, shortly after leaving the 
egg sac, intentionally create large, free-flowing amounts of webbing for the 
sole purpose of catching the wind and being carried to a (hopefully) better 
place to start their lives, away from the competition of their siblings.
 JR> A few days afterwards we were also rained on with millions of tiny 
ittle
 JR> toads, that covered almost every square foot of the ground.
Rains of toads, fish, and similar creatures are supposedly caused when 
tornadoes and similar atmospheric phenomenon pass over a pond or lake.  Large 
amounts of water are sucked up, along with anything in the water.  Since 
everything has different weights and aerodynamics, it gets separated out as 
it is carried along by winds at high altitude, and eventually falls in 
different areas.  Somebody a few miles over probably got rained on by large 
fish that day.  :-) 
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