MYSTERIES FROM THE
SKY
Source: Reader’s
Digesr
Mr. David Muckle and Mr. W R McKay … were
in a field on farm of the farmer when they heard a sudden loud report, like
that of a cannon. They turned just in time to see a cloud of stones flying
upward from a spot in the field. Surprised beyond measure they examined the
spot, which was circular and about 16 feet across, but there was no sign of an
eruption nor anything to indicate the fall of a heavy body there. The ground
was simply swept clean. They are quite certain that it was not caused by a
meteorite, an eruption of the earth, or a whirlwind. (From the July 10, 1880,
issue of Scientific American ).
During a violent storm angular black
pebbles fell on Wolverhampton, England in such quantities that they had to be
shoveled away. (La Science PourTous, 5:264, July 18, 1860)
Fire seemed to fall from the sky like rain
for about 10 minutes in the night of October 18 1867, at Themes Ditton, Surrey,
England. In the morning “waterbutts and pebbles in the upper part of the
village were thickly covered with a deposit of sulphur.” (Symons’s monthly Meteorological
Magazine, 2:130, December1867)
For 10 to 12 sunny, cloudless days an
almost incessant deluge of rain poured down on a small area of Chesterfield
County, South Carolina. (The New york Sun, October 24, 1886)
Numerous silver coins fell in the
Meshchera region in central Russia during a storm in August 1940. (John Michel
and Robert J. M. Rickard Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, P. 19)
“Thousands”
of 1000 franc notes rained down on Burges, France in 1957. No one claimed the
notes or reported any loss. (John Michel and Robert J> M> Rickard
Phenomena, A Book of Wonders, p.19)
On August 27, 1968, blood and flesh fell
on an area of about one third of a square mile betweenthe Brazilian towns of
Cacapava Sao Jose dos Campos. The fall was reported to have lasted about five
to seven minutes. (John Michel and Robert J. M. Rickard, Phenomena: A Book of
Wonders, p.15)
Explanations for such sky falls, fall into
the categories of extraterrestrial, supernatural and time warp.
In
the extraterrestrial hypothesis alien space ships are supposed, for unspecified
but perhaps scientific or culinary reasons, to gather up supplies of earthly
materials and then release them, or most of them. Or materials are directed to
the earth from another similar planet and jettisoned upon us in the upper
atmosphere.
In
the supernatural theory, gods, demons, spirits, poltergeists or other unnamed
entities are responsible for the sky falls.
In
the time warp theory, it is conceived that worlds of another dimension, but of
parallel constitution, intersect occasionally with our own and that when they
do, currents of fish, fields of ice, screes of stone, and mounds of jelly come
tumbling into our ken.
In such case the reverse sky falls from
our world to other worlds cannot be ruled out.
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