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[Le-Roy]

   Folks, please excuse the vanity, but I would like to get others to look at this.

   If there is anyone in Dallas with a telescope or a good set of binoculars, get outside and point them SE, towards Kaufman Cty.

   There are currently thousands (literally) of wispy, white 'streamers' of something drifting down through the sky. This stuff is falling all over my yard, all over Forney, and all the way out to Terrell.

   Could this be the same 'harmless' stuff which fell in Trappe, MD. last week? I don't know, but it is truly bizarre.

[MississippiMan]

Is it something visible and tangible when it gets to the ground? Don't recommend touching it, of course.

MM

[Diva Betsy Ross]

What does it look like when it reaches your yard?

[ChowChowFace]

Contrails?

[nevergore]

Don't worry, buy a car.... it's not related to Sept. 11th....

BTW, I'm sure it's not a real problem......terrorists can't rig a delivery system.....right????(sarcasm off)

NeverGore

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Do you hear any planes? What's the weather like there

[TomGuy]

Would fall-out from Kabul reach Dallas? Does it glow in the dark?

[John H K]

The stuff in Trappe turned out to be....bird crap. I kid you not.

[Ben Hecks]

Could be spiders......some species spin a web and launch themselves....usually after a rain and when there is a good breeze.

[cyberwatcher]

I am nowhere near Texas, but you got my attention. I will hang out here a bit to see what develops.

[Sabertooth]

Is it baby spider season there?

After hatching, some species make little sails out of their webs and drift all over the landscape.

[RandallFlagg]

Does it resemble spiderwebbing when it lights on the lawn? If so, then I remember hearing something about it on Art Bell's website. Take a gander there and look at the pics.

[HoustonKevin]

Pictures please.

[jerod]

Stop smoking the rope, and tie yourself up with it.

The rubber truck is on the way to your house.

[Scutter]

bttt

[Le-Roy]

   The little bits that I have been able to track into my yard look like little blobs of sheer gauze (smaller than your little finger-nail).

   There was a prop-plane sound just before I noticed them, but I never could see the plane itself. I like planes, and generally watch them while smoking on my porch.

   I really would like to get other folks to witness this stuff while it's still there. It is easiest to spot if you use a building to block the direct sun, and then look at the edge of the halo (just the properties of light reflecting from the streamers).

[jellybean]

Carlo, you're near Dallas....is this happening by you?

[TexasChip]

Confirmation, We are in North Dallas and my wife and I are seeing little wispy threads in the sky. They do look like spider webs. Haven't seen any close yet. Could be a natural phenomenon.

[Bommer]

We were just hit with a 10,000 megaton nuclear warhead! Since theres nothing in Dallas to really destroy, damage is minimal! Nothing to see here, move on!

[GEC]

Oh no.

Not the contrail thing again.