The severe weather group at the University of Alabama - Huntsville caught on to it first after finding clumps of hair-like strands of fibreglass on the ground. It didn't take very long for the mystery to be solved, though. However, Matthew Havin, the data services manager for Baron Services, a weather technology company in Huntsville, told LiveScience: "It would take many millions of ladybugs to really show up on a weather radar, and it wouldn't look the same as what we were seeing." There was even talk about it being caused by 1,000 ladybugs that the local botanical gardens released that day. Base Reflectivity Doppler Radar for Huntsville AL, providing current static map of storm severity from precipitation levels. Others went for the disaster angle, thinking it might be signals from a damaged utilities substation interfering with the radar. Some went straight for conspiracy-theory territory, talking about secret military transmitters. There was plenty of speculation about what caused it. In total, it was visible for over nine hours. WAFF 48 Doppler Radar Promo 2003 Huntsville AlabamaWAFF is the NBC television network affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama. The standard radar continued to show it, though, and even when they switched to dual-polarity - where the radar sends and receives in both the horizontal and the vertical - the blob persisted. The sky was sunny with just a few clouds, and there wasn't any smoke visible either. A large blob suddenly turned up on their weather radar, which they thought was a sudden 'pop-up' thunderstorm, but looking outside there wasn't a storm in sight. Meteorologists can see some strange things with the weather sometimes, but back on June 4th, forecasters in Huntsville had a real mystery on their hands. When a strange blob showed up on weather radar over Huntsville, Alabama back in June, there were plenty of equally-strange ideas floating around about what caused it, but the mystery has now been solved, thanks to some persistent weather service scientists.
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