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wasn't there." In January, 1966, | sat in the workshop-study of Ivan T. Sanderson and studied an acquisition of the famous natural scientist's newly organized Foundation. In a glass jar were some peculiar metal shavings, in appearance not greatly unlike the "icicles" one hangs on his Christmas tree. According to the young saucer buff, who had brought the jar for our examination, the shavings had been appearing almost nightly in one particular spot in the New Jersey area. How the metal residue materialized and who or what brought the shavings were unknown. At the time, samples of the metal were being analyzed by a laboratory in an attempt to determine, at least, from what kind of metal the shavings had come. In February of 1958, the Miami Herald printed a story about a police detective who had reported a strange, white ball that had dropped into his back yard. Detective Faustin Gallegos told a reporter that the body of the ball seemed to be made up of thousands of minute cells resembling those of a honeycomb. "It was not white as it had appeared when it fell, but was Clear like glass. Amazingly, this translucent object was pulsating over its entire body." Silencing powerful inner objections, as well as those of his wife, Detective Gallegos at last bent over to touch the pulsating ball. He was amazed to discover that he was "unable to feel it." He got down on his hands and knees in an attempt to detect an odor. He gingerly put forth his forefinger to once again touch the object. "Again | had no sensation of touch, but my finger gouged a furrow its entire length. | noticed that nothing clung to my finger - it was as if what | saw before my eyes actually Detective Gallegos noticed that even the object was rapidly shrinking in size. In order to preserve some of the substance for the experts to examine, he quickly scooped up the still pulsating stuff into an empty pickle jar. By the time Gallegos arrived at the police laboratory to deliver the jar for analysis, however, it contained nothing which would indicate that anything other than pickles had ever been kept in it. People who try to catch and retain drifting globs of "angel's hair" experience a similar difficulty in preserving the mysterious substance, which, according to those who have witnessed falls of the wispy material, seems to evaporate in the hand.