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Strange Objects Falling From Our Skies
By James Donahue
We have all heard the stories about fish, frogs and ice blocks falling out of sometimes cloudless skies, but usually during heavy rain storms. But we have also noticed reports of much more interesting objects crashing down on homes and yards.
People in Jennings, Louisiana, said large tangled clumps of living, crawling worms literally plopped out of the sky on their town in July, 2007. Reporting the odd fall was Eleanor Beal, an employee for the Jennings Police Department. She said she was crossing the street on her way to work that day when the worms just dropped out of the sky. She said there were blobs of them. To prove her story Beal said she got fellow workers to come out of the office to see for themselves.
In Perkasie, Pennsylvania, the local television station said people all over town reported a strange substance had fallen after a rain. The station asked chemists at nearby Kutztown University collect samples of the material and determine what it was. They said it looked like "sparkly" ice cubes dumped all over the ground, except it was not ice and it did not melt. The chemists took the material off for some tests but said they were stumped. They had no idea what the stuff was or where it came from.
Clumps of loose hay fell from the sky over about four counties in the western side of the United Kingdom between June 19 and 22, 2014. Photographer Nick Madigan filmed the hay as it was dropping from a clear blue sky on June 21 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Hay-falls were reported from as far south as Devon County and north as Lancashire. Madigan said the hay he saw was swirling in a counter-clockwise direction as it dropped.
And in Freehold Township, New Jersey, authorities were mystified over a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house bounced off a tiled bathroom floor and embedded itself in a wall. Nobody was hurt. They said the object had a rough surface, looked metallic and was about the size of a golf ball. It weighted about as much as a can of soup. Was it space debris?
Perhaps the strangest fall was the four-thousand-pound aluminum storage shed that crashed into the roof of a church in Elkhorn, Kentucky in 2007. People said it happened under clear blue (or perhaps smoggy brown) skies. The Rev. Jeff Edwards of the Pine Grove Church said the twelve by twenty-four-foot building even contained a few building supplies. There were no explosive materials that might have suggested it was propelled into the air by a blast of some kind. The insurance company said the damage to the church, estimated at about twenty thousand dollars, appeared to be an "act of God."
By James Donahue
We have all heard the stories about fish, frogs and ice blocks falling out of sometimes cloudless skies, but usually during heavy rain storms. But we have also noticed reports of much more interesting objects crashing down on homes and yards.
People in Jennings, Louisiana, said large tangled clumps of living, crawling worms literally plopped out of the sky on their town in July, 2007. Reporting the odd fall was Eleanor Beal, an employee for the Jennings Police Department. She said she was crossing the street on her way to work that day when the worms just dropped out of the sky. She said there were blobs of them. To prove her story Beal said she got fellow workers to come out of the office to see for themselves.
In Perkasie, Pennsylvania, the local television station said people all over town reported a strange substance had fallen after a rain. The station asked chemists at nearby Kutztown University collect samples of the material and determine what it was. They said it looked like "sparkly" ice cubes dumped all over the ground, except it was not ice and it did not melt. The chemists took the material off for some tests but said they were stumped. They had no idea what the stuff was or where it came from.
Clumps of loose hay fell from the sky over about four counties in the western side of the United Kingdom between June 19 and 22, 2014. Photographer Nick Madigan filmed the hay as it was dropping from a clear blue sky on June 21 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Hay-falls were reported from as far south as Devon County and north as Lancashire. Madigan said the hay he saw was swirling in a counter-clockwise direction as it dropped.
And in Freehold Township, New Jersey, authorities were mystified over a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house bounced off a tiled bathroom floor and embedded itself in a wall. Nobody was hurt. They said the object had a rough surface, looked metallic and was about the size of a golf ball. It weighted about as much as a can of soup. Was it space debris?
Perhaps the strangest fall was the four-thousand-pound aluminum storage shed that crashed into the roof of a church in Elkhorn, Kentucky in 2007. People said it happened under clear blue (or perhaps smoggy brown) skies. The Rev. Jeff Edwards of the Pine Grove Church said the twelve by twenty-four-foot building even contained a few building supplies. There were no explosive materials that might have suggested it was propelled into the air by a blast of some kind. The insurance company said the damage to the church, estimated at about twenty thousand dollars, appeared to be an "act of God."