STUFF THAT FALLS FROM THE SKY

Fish is the best known of these. There have been claims around the world that fish fall with the rain sometimes. Well we have to test this claim. Can a fish get 5,000 feet up in the sky? Certainly not under its own power it can’t. How could a fish then get so high that it gives the appearance of ‘falling from the sky’?

I can easily see how a hurricane or cyclone over the water can scoop up fish from the ocean, transport them quite a distance, then peter out and let the fish fall to the ground. I can even see how the fish could still be alive when it comes down.

The same thing could happen from a lake or other reservoir. So for me, it is quite conceivable that fish could fall from the sky. But let’s put some limits on this. Thousands of fish? I very much doubt that a hurricane or cyclone is powerful enough to scoop up thousands of fish. The ‘eye’ or ‘point’ of the weather pattern that touches the sea does so over a relatively small area. Granted that the pattern is moving across the surface of the ocean, but why would thousands of fish all see this ugly thing and swim up to the surface to get a better look?

Let’s move on from fish. People have reported the weirdest of things falling from the sky, and to count as weird, we simply say that it is something that is not normally found in the sky such as frogs, steering wheels, and 1968 Mustangs. I don’t know of anyone reporting the Ford, but there have been claims of frogs, toads, snakes, worms, blood, and pieces of muscle and flesh.

I don’t have much trouble believing fish and frogs. But blood? This sounds a little Biblical like in the days of Pharaoh, but even then the blood was in the rivers and lakes, not falling from the sky. I guess a farmer might butcher up a few thousand cows smack in the middle of a huge hurricane or tornado, and he might even put all the blood from the killings in a shallow tank and hold it in the path of the freaky weather. Maybe the stormy weather passed through some production site for some chemical or colouring additive or whatever that just happened to make the rain look a little red or ochre in colour.

Whatever the case I really don’t want to be around if it ever rains snakes. In fact, I just don’t want to believe that story at all.

Probably the best story is one where it was claimed by a number of observers that ‘fiery rain’ descended, and when the glowing lumps came to rest on the ground, they turned into jelly. I can just see the children out there now with bowls, spooning the once deadly missiles into greedy mouths. Unfortunately if they left the ‘jelly’ too long it solidified, flattened, and became a white powder.

So, is it possible for water-lizards, fiery embers, snakes, fish, syrup, and blood to fall from the sky? Maybe you have more answers than I, but I think this is just plain crazy. If you like to stay grounded, how about looking at the benefits of an ssd.