People have reported seeing living and inorganic things fall from the sky. These include fish, grain, coins, slime and many other items. Usually strange rains occur when there are heavy winds or bad storms. Occasionally, strange rain falls from the sky on bright and sunny days.
Selected Documented Strange Rains
- 1861: Singapore. Many people in numerous areas reported a rain of fish.
- 1869: Los Nietos Township, California. J. Hudson's farm was pelted by a rain of flesh and blood for three minutes.
- In 1873, Scientific American reported that Kansas City, Missouri was blanketed with frogs that dropped from the sky during a storm.
- 1881: Worcester, England, a thunderstorm rained tons of periwinkles and hermit crabs.
- 1877: South Carolina. Several one-foot-long alligators fell on J. L. Smith's farm. They landed and started crawling around.
- 1890: Messignadi, Italy. Birds’ blood rained down. No body parts accompanied it.
- 1901: Minneapolis, Minnesota. The city was pelted with frogs and toads.
- 1948: Bournemouth, England. Golfers experienced a shower of herring.
- 1956: Chilatchee, Alabama. A woman and her husband watched a small dark cloud form in the sky. When it was overhead, rain and live catfish, bass and bream fell.
- 1966: A fish fell on Father Leonard Bourne’s during a downpour. He almost caught it, but it wiggled away, fell to the flooded ground and swam away.
- 1981: Naphlion, Greece. Small green frogs feel from the sky landing in trees and on the ground.
- 1982: Redding, England. Children saw coins fall from the sky.
- 1982 to 1986: Evans, Colorado. Kernels of corn have rained on several houses. There were no cornfields in the area.
- 1989: Ipswich, Australia. A couple’s front lawn was covered with about eight hundred sardines that rained down during a light shower.
- 2001: Wichita, Kansas. There was an unexplained rain of corn husks.
Strange Rains of Purple Blobs or Star Jelly
These are often attributed to meteors, because they're commonly found after strange lights are seen in the sky. Modern scientists are baffled because they believe that these blobs couldn’t survive the fiery trip of entering earth's atmosphere.
- 1979: Frisco, Texas. On August 10th, Mrs. Christian and others saw a bright light in the sky. The next morning, she found three purple blobs in her yard. One dissolved. The others were analyzed. Chemical reports could not clearly determine the origin of the blobs.
- 1996: A town in southern Tasmania. Several residents woke up after a night of violent thunderstorms to find a strange, white-clear jelly-like substance on their property.
- 2001: Kerala, India. Strange colored jelly filled with fungus spores fell.
Theories About Strange Rains
What accounts for these strange rains? There are theories.
Funnels, tornados, hurricanes, whirlwinds or waterspouts are one theory. Objects can be picked up and carried by them. How could they pick up only one type of animal or object and carry it somewhere? They are known to drop everything they pick up.
UFOs and aliens are another theory for the cause of strange rains. Morris K. Jessup, UFO enthusiast, believes that strange rains are alien waste. He claims aliens collect and raise earthly creatures in tanks and occasionally empty the tanks for cleaning or other purposes.
Writer John Philip Bessor believes that UFO's are meat-eating animals who live in the atmosphere. They hunt the earth for food, including humans, which accounts for their mysterious disappearances .
Other hypotheses include teleportation and electromagnetic fields. Like the others, none have been tested. Scientists remain perplexed.
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