Mysterious cables (or threads) hanging from the sky

[IronWing]

Going to take a lot of flak for necroing.

 

[WynnSnider]

I grew up in Linwood NC and back around 1975 my dad found a string hanging from the sky. My sisters and I came out and began helping our dad pull it from the sky. The best way I can describe the string was it was thinner than kite string but with a shiny nylon look. We pulled on the string for about 30 mins before my dad told us to call the local Sherriff’s department. Of course they took the call as a joke and said "When you pull the little green man from the sky call us back" and then hung up on us. We never found out what this was and when I tell this story, people look at me like we made this up. Does anyone know what this string could have been? I am 49yrs old now with kids of my own and they would also like to know what it was that we pulled from the sky for over an hour. We finally cut the string from the bundle we had gathered on the ground.

 

[LevelSea]

I grew up in Linwood NC and back around 1975 my dad found a string hanging from the sky. My sisters and I came out and began helping our dad pull it from the sky. The best way I can describe the string was it was thinner than kite string but with a shiny nylon look. We pulled on the string for about 30 mins before my dad told us to call the local Sherriff’s department. Of course they took the call as a joke and said "When you pull the little green man from the sky call us back" and then hung up on us. We never found out what this was and when I tell this story, people look at me like we made this up. Does anyone know what this string could have been? I am 49yrs old now with kids of my own and they would also like to know what it was that we pulled from the sky for over an hour. We finally cut the string from the bundle we had gathered on the ground.

Bath salts.

 

[Ruptga]

Almost every case of this is just floaters, little clumps of protein in your eyeballs that look big because they're so close to your retina.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I recall running across an actual picture someone took of these weird cables. I can't seem to find anymore. It was obviously not the best quality given it was taken in the 70's. There are tons of weird phenomenons that happen that can't be explained. I saw one myself the other day with my family. At first I thought it was two planes, typical white strobe lights in the sky. But then there were more of them, about 10, and they were all flashing, and all moving in unison towards the horizon until they could not be seen anymore. The only thing I can think of is a recent satellite that got destroyed and it was shiny pieces of metal spinning in space. It was still early at night like maybe 11ish, so it would still be light out that high. But it seemed a bit too bright for that, and it seems to me they would be spreading at a rather fast pace and not stay together. Not to mention would have heard something on the news about it.

Speaking of weird stuff, has anything ever come out of all those weird sounds people were hearing all over the world for a while?

 

[Ken g6]

As long as Red is still in this thread...

Speaking of weird things, on two occasions, I witnessed something very shiny in the sky, looked kinda like magnesium burning. It would move around a bit but pretty much stay in one spot, then eventually vanish. I'm thinking maybe a large piece of foil paper caught up in the wind, but not sure if it would actually end up that high.

Probably Mylar balloons.

It's a space elevator.

Space elevators would have to hang over the Equator. They can't hang over New Jersey.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The aliens are fishing for humans and the hook broke off.

 

[Printer Bandit]

I wish the elite would reveal what is really going on.

 

[zinfamous]

this is what happens to all of our socks that we lose in our dryers. They eventually dissemble into single lines of thread and combine with one another in the 5th dimension, only to reappear when the time is right, and only above our top methanphetamine-addled cities, to say one final farewell to their former human masters.

 

[zinfamous]

The aliens are fishing for humans and the hook broke off.

I'd be toast, because fried chicken is my weakness--and floating fried chicken is just too amazing to pass up.

 

[darkswordsman17]

this is what happens to all of our socks that we lose in our dryers. They eventually dissemble into single lines of thread and combine with one another in the 5th dimension, only to reappear when the type is right, and only above our top methanphetamine-addled cities, to say one final farewell to their former human masters.

Its the sock Rapture!

 

[sportage]

God... And I left P&N for THiS......?

 

[Sean Kyle]

Fiber??

 

[John Connor]

I'm not sure? Like this? I'm not very good at photo editing.

http://imgur.com/DIlh1eC

 

[digiram]

Strange thread.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Stupid, baseless, sci-fi yarns like this are a guilty pleasure. I enjoy reading all the fantastical accounts, even the silly time traveler videos gives me a nice dopamine reward.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My poor photoshop attempt at what it could have potentially looked like:

 

[Fanatical Meat]

My poor photoshop attempt at what it could have potentially looked like:

I saw something on the weather channel about strings in the sky

 

[MongGrel]

The aliens are fishing for humans and the hook broke off.

I hates when the fishies steal my bait.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Here's a wiki page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_hair_(folklore)

There was one event in France where a whole town saw this phenomenon

 

[John Connor]

Here's a wiki page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_hair_(folklore)

There was one event in France where a whole town saw this phenomenon

Very interesting. I guess there have been stranger things on this rock. I've heard of tadpoles or frogs falling from the sky.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Google Project Blue Beam if you really want to read up on some weird stuff. I don't know what to think of it myself as it is kind of far fetched but at same time the tech is there and I would not put it past our world governments to do something like that.

 

[grantski]

I just came across this today, and it has really been freaking me out, especially as I look more into it. Is seems that back in 1970, in a town in New Jersey called Caldwell, some type of thread was noticed in the air hanging down over someone's house. No one could see where the thread was coming from. From a newspaper report,

"It looks rigid, as if it were a wire, not a string. It appears silver when the sunlight strikes it. On Monday it hung about 150 feet above the houses on Forest Avenue and Hillside Avenue. By Tuesday, it seemed limper to Mrs Smith and other observers, as if one of its ends — wherever that is — had loosened. It also seemed lower in the sky. The Caldwell police tried to trace it on Monday, found signs of it up Hillside and down towards West Caldwell, but lost it in the clouds before tracking down the origins. They looked again on Tuesday with the same nebulous results."

Neighbors from all over came out to see the thread. It stayed there for about a month (!) just hanging in mid air, through storms and windy days. Finally, some kids used a fishing pole and line to snag the end of it, they pulled on it, and they gathered "buckets" of the thread according to one report I read, "1000 feet of it" before it "snapped" according to another report. The end that was still up in the sky was never found. The part that was pulled down was taken to the DuPont company for testing. I read one report that said DuPont couldn't figure out what it was, and another that said they found it to be "chemically a type 6 Nylon (caprolactam) or possibly a copolymer such as type 6 and type 66, but that it was not of their manufacture." Also, the lines "had a fine hollow tube running through their length. When Dr. Vargas first examined the specimens this was empty, but after a time in a vacuum jar he found to his amazement that this tube was filled with some other solid substance, and this defied analysis as far as we can make out."

Apparently this has also happened in other places, the Caldwell NJ incident took place in August of 1970, then it happened in Elberton, Georgia in June 1972, and in Greensburg, Ohio in September of 1978. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is it some kind of hoax? I would think that if it were real, there would have been some kind of major investigation on it, every report I've been able to find seems fairly blasé about it.

The latest report I found was from 2003, where someone writing for a publication called "Weird New Jersey" found one of the kids (who was around 40 years old at the time of the interview) who had snagged the thread with the fishing pole back in the 1970's. He said, "After the thread was hanging there for about a week, attracting all kinds of crowds, me and my buddies decided to pull it down. I got a fishing rod and just kept casting until we snagged it from mid air over the house. When we got a hold of it we just kept pulling and it just kept on coming down out of nowhere. Then it stopped and we found the end. There wasn't anything holding it from the other end, it was just coming out of nowhere! They took it from us and sent it off to some lab somewhere for testing and that's the last any of us ever heard about it. Jeez, now I wish I had saved some of it for a souvenir!".

Now he's saying he found the end, where other reports say the thread snapped and the end was never found. But, it was over 40 years ago, I'm sure memories are a bit rusty by now. There's not a whole lot of info on this online, and what little there is comes from just a few sources. Anyone know someone who works at DuPont who could look into this?

 

[grantski]

I too have experienced the thread from the sky. I was driving a big truck on a dirt road and could see the thread hanging motionless in front of me. As I approached it no change was seen in size. I drove through it and in my mirror I could still see it undisturbed. None of what I saw made sence as it should have been disturbed by my truck and the breeze it produced. This is the only true mystery in my life. This happened in central Saskatchewan.

 

[IronWing]

This happened in central Saskatchewan.

Maybe they occur in other places but it's sort of like having a dirty monitor, you only see the threads or dirt when the view is otherwise blank.