On October 27, 1954, an afternoon football match in Florence was temporarily halted after thousands of spectators, players, and officials turned their attention toward unusual objects in the sky. The stadium sighting was only one part of a wider series of reports that afternoon. Similar objects were reported over central Florence and elsewhere in Tuscany. A strange white, fibrous material also fell across parts of the region. Samples were collected and subjected to microscopic and spectrograp...