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Mrs. W. J. Daily of Puente, California phoned the Mt. Wilson Observatory on February 1, 1954, seeking advice on how to best collect a specimen of "saucer exhaust." Mrs. Daily had just experienced an UFO sighting when she was astonished to note a shiny, cobweb-like material flow out of the reddish colored saucer. The substance drifted down to earth and draped itself over trees, bushes, and telephone wires. According to Mrs. Daily: "It was long, silvery, like spider webs. But it vanished when | tried to touch it with my hands." Equally as common as the sighting of the strange "angel's hair," is the discovery of a peculiar foam-like substance associated with UFO's. On the morning of December 12, 1963, Customs Interventor Ignacio Gonzales Baz reported sighting and photographing two ball-shaped globs of foamy material which had bounced past the checking station and caught in the mesquite. The strange chunks of fluff were roughly six feet in diameter, and at first Baz had thought that they must be a concentration of soap or detergent suds that had somehow escaped the confines of a laundry. Upon closer examination, however, Baz noticed that the tiny bubbles seemed to be interlocked by a fibrous substance. The stuff clung cohesively together and stuck to the mesquite like large puffs of sticky cotton candy. Soap suds would, of course, have been instantly disintegrated by the rough contact of having been bounced into several rocks and mesquite branches before becoming caught fast. A rain storm dissolved the mysterious substance before it could be analyzed, but Baz's two pictures of the strange foam-balls appeared in an issue of the Douglas, Texas Gazette. On November 16, 1953, such a large quantity of "angel's hair" fell in the San Fernando Valley that a bakery truck became completely enveloped in the wispy stuff. Two city blocks literally received a "blizzard" of the unearthly substance. "It looked like finely shredded wool or spun glass," a resident was quoted. "But held between the fingers, it dissolves into nothing." In October of 1952, over 100 citizens of Gaillac, France reported the formation of 16 flying saucers, which surrounded a large, cigar-shaped object. According to news accounts: "This object discharged a