MYSTERIES FROM THE SKY

 

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.