In the following article I have collected reports of falls of the most varied material from heaven, as to credibility, they range from more or less acceptable to those truly amazing, at the edge of this spectrum of possibilities, there are events which could also fit into another category of the unexplained. For example, the meteoric stones can fall from the sky following a volcanic eruption, or a tornado, but if they always fall on the same roof it begins to touch the imagination.
Reports of falling objects from the sky in ancient times are less numerous than in more recent times, they are just as varied. Greek University historian, speaks, in his historical anthology 'The Sophists at banquet ", written around 200 BC, a rain of fish took three days to a spectacular deluge of frogs.
< < I also know that very often rained fish. Each way, Fenia, in the second book of his work Ereso The magistrates said that once in the Chersonese (the name simply means in greek peninsula, perhaps this was intended to the peninsula of Thrace, Ed.) fish rained continuously for three days ; Filarco and, in his fourth book says that people have often seen it rain fish and often grain, and that the same thing happened with the frogs.
In any case, Heraclides Lembo, in the twenty-first book of his History, says: "Peony and in Dardania (the first region of Macedonia and Serbia present the second, Ed.), It is said that before now have rained frogs and this was the number of those beasts that the houses and streets full of them. At first, for some days, the people trying to kill them and locked in houses, they tried to resist the invasion. But when they realized that not lead to nothing, all their pots were full of frogs, and frogs boiled and roasted in the midst of all their food, and also could not use water, nor set foot on land for heaps of frogs were everywhere-, for more annoyed by the smell of dead frogs, decided to leave the country. "
Reports of rains of fish, grains and even frogs flock to the more recent history. But the plague of frogs in Paeonia and Dardania is compared only with another major disaster, the second plague of Egypt, which deals indeed, even frogs.
< < says the Lord ... I will smite your whole territory with frogs: the Nile amusement will of frogs: they will come, I come home, and the room where you sleep on your bed in the house your servants, and among your people, into your ovens and into your kneading bowls ... and the frogs came out and covered the land of Egypt ... the gathered in heaps and the land was tainted > > (Exodus 7 , 27 - 8:11)
The book of Exodus speaks of a mortal hail, hail mixed with fire, as the seventh plague of Egypt (Exodus 9.18 to 34).
I would, however, ignore the evidence frogs and fish, either because they are really hundreds and have happened in all periods of history, is not to dwell too much and to concentrate on falling objects and materials that actually have something strange or inexplicable. Anyone who wishes to learn more about the case of frogs and fish, in each case spiegabilissimi pulling in different dance every day that tornadoes form all over the world thanks to the combination of several meteorological factors, may ask the webmaster and time-dependent I have available, I will try to make a list of the most extreme cases.
But back to us.
ancient historians, including Procopius and Theophanes Marcellino, mention a rain of black powder in the year 472 BC, during which the sky seemed to blaze. The location of the fall is uncertain, but it could be Byzantium, now Istanbul.
During the reign of Charlemagne, in the nineteenth century, fell from the sky a huge block of ice about 3 cubic meters (Source by Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphere ")
A fiery object fell into Lake Van, in Armenia, in 1110, reddened waters. In the first plague of Egypt, the Nile turned into blood (Exodus 7.15 to 24).
In the second half of 1600, then, there were at least four examples of substances 'abnormal' fall from the sky: the first concerns the fall of a meteorite in 1652 here in Italy, near the crash site was found in the "Star Jelly" ("Annals of Philosophy, August 1826) and according to this source, a fibrous substance similar to silk blue fell in great quantities March 23, 1665 in Naumburg in Germany to the south-east of Leipzig.
Around 1687, a fibrous substance black scales, some as big as a tablecloth, fell on the snow near the town of Memel (Klaipeda, Lithuania) on the east coast of the Baltic, the flakes were wet, smelled of algae and marches tore like paper. Once dry, they lost their smell and some fragments were kept for 150 years, when, Finally, we saw that were analyzed consisted in part of < < plant material, mainly Conferva Crespo (a seaweed green ribbon) and other 29 species of Infusoria (microscopic aquatic animals) ("Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, December 9, 1839).
Finally, a fetid substance, the texture of butter, fell over large areas of the South of Ireland during the winter and spring of 1696: according to the bishop of this clone < < disgusting dew fell in pieces sometimes as big as the tip of a finger, was soft, sticky and dark yellow. It seems that the cattle camps continue to graze peacefully and that the population was convinced that the "butter" had healing properties and collect and store in jars and pots ("Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, March-May 1696).
One of the first reports of the substance known as "angel hair" is in "The Natural History of Selborne 'by Gilbert White: he describes it, September 21, 1741, came out in the fields before dawn and found the' thickly covered with grass "cobwebs", so that her dogs if they had to wipe away from eyes. Then about nine:
< < an unusual sight attracted our attention: a shower of cobwebs falling from the sky and continued without interruption until the going down of the day. These webs were not single strands floating in the air, but perfectly pitched or rags, some wider than two centimeters long and eight or ten, and fell at a certain speed, they were much heavier than the atmosphere. Everywhere you look he turned, we saw a continuous fall of new bows before his eyes, shining like stars when the sun reflected. It 's hard to say how far you extend that wonderful rain, but we know that it reached Bradley, Selborne and Alresford, three countries that form a sort of triangle with sides shorter than 10 km.
Whatever may be the angel hair (and the term is probably because different substances) are usually described as a spider web of filaments of silk or cotton, white, shiny and resistant, a common feature of all is that when you try to collect them for analysis, they melt and disappear without a trace, yet are routinely passed off as mere cobwebs.
An explanation to this effect was given in the "Marine Observer" of October 1963, in response to the letter sent to the journal of Captain Pape, who described a fall of angel hair in the port of Montreal and told the story so :
I pulled one of those wires and found rather strong and flexible, but still pulled it does not break easily (as it did for example a wire spider web) in it, hand-held for three or four minutes, I saw it was gone, vanished into thin air. Looking up they saw little cocoons that matter floating down from heaven, but as far as we could ascertain, there was nothing, neither air nor on the street level, which could justify this extraordinary event.
The writer of the letter, DJ Clark of the Natural History Museum in London, explains the phenomenon as follows:
I think that a spider species is responsible for the phenomenon described. These particular spiders in general, belongs to the family Linyphiidae, whose eggs hatch in autumn. This season, in sunny and hot, especially with large morning dew, the spiders begin to migrate and disperse to colonize new areas where the amount of food is greatest. The method used is the "rides": when the sun evaporates the dew create warm ascending currents, the spider runs to the top of a plant or any high point, and raising the lower abdomen, it emits a globule liquid silk. This comes as silk "spun" by the currents of air and hardens as it comes out. When the wire is long enough to support the spider, this leaves his grip and fly in the air (...) The single wire is very thin and barely visible (...) but when it is intertwined with other wires is much easier to see and it is strong and flexible. I do not know how to explain the disappearance of the filaments after they were held in his hand. It may be due to the fact that the wires of the cord should not be so intertwined that handled, you are disconnected from each other, becoming impalpable. The thread of the spider can not melt because it is not subject to the action of heat is actually less soluble silk.
theorists of the web, however, ignore a negative test, that does not support their theory: the fact that in all of those filaments meters balloons has never been found only a spider. Given this general tendency to want to give explanations, ignoring the conflicting situations, or invalid or saying that they are mere coincidences, it is not surprising that proponents of the theory of spiders tend to neglect those cases where the appearance of hair d ' angel coincided with the presence of unidentified flying objects. Nor does wonder, for the same reason that proponents of the UFO theory ignore the cases in which matter is falling (at least according to reports) that we were not in sight "distributors" cigar-shaped, disc, sphere, light etc..
A letter from the French consul M. Laine in Pernambuco, Brazil, "Annual Register "in 1821 signaled the collapse, which occurred in October the year before, a silky substance which covered an area extending 150 miles inland and nearly the same to the sea, so that a French ship was left all "crowned" (sic).
In 1828 came the news that several districts of Persia had been covered to a depth of 18-20 cm, of a substance falling from the sky and that was greedily devoured by cattle ("Nature" on January 15, 1891)
Even in Russia fellsomething: in March 1832 a yellow substance with fields near Volokolamsk. At first the people thought it was snow-colored, but then realized that the substance was very similar to cotton. It was a small amount on the fire that burns with a blue flame, a part vennemessa in water, and became resinous; placed on the fire, and it was foam was boiling but not burned. It is said that this had the color of amber resin, a rubbery texture and smell as < < > > oil mixed with wax. The precipitation covered an area ranging from 5500 to 6000 m ², with a thickness of about 5 cm ("Annual Register, 1832)
A substance like maybe it fell on us too, precisely in Genoa, on the morning of February 14 1870, here you could do more analysis depth of about MGBoccardo and prof. Castellani Technical Institute of Genoa, who was turned down as follows: 66% sand (mostly silica with a little 'clay), 15% iron oxide (rust), 9% calcium carbonate, 7% total organic and the rest of water. The organic matter contained spore-like particles, starch grains, fragments of diatoms (algae whose cells contain silica) and cobalt blue unidentified cell (the signal is taken from a foreign newspaper, the "The Journal of the Franklin Institute of July 12, 1870, I found nothing in the Italian papers, if anyone has any news, please inform)
In Milwaukee, a Green Bay and other places in Wisconsin (USA), fell in late October 1881, and very robust webs of white. Their length ranged from small dots to wires 20 feet long. Cobwebs, sometimes so thick as to disturb the view, seemed to move inland of Lake Michigan and extend upwards as far as the eye can see. To prove what I said a moment ago it was noted that a spirit < < strangely not mentioned in any of the press ... the presence of spiders in this major exhibition of cobwebs > > (" Scientific American, November 26, 1881)
In August 1890, near Mardin and Diyarbakir in Turkey, an area of \u200b\u200babout 8 sq km was covered with small yellowish spheres, white inside, it seems that someone has even tried it (How dare ...) discovering edible and the locals picked us faith and of bread, which tasted good and was easily digestible. Botanists declared that the substance was a lichen, Lecanora esculenta perhaps ("Nature" on January 15, 1891).
Always something similar to web rained on Montgomery Alabama, November 21, 1898, but the structure was more similar to asbestos, the matter was in gusts and some flakes of several centimeters in length and width. The most curious thing was that the substance was phosphorescent ("Monthly Weather Rewiew", December 1898).
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And now some object fell from the sky very unusual and strange.
On August 13, 1819 in Amherst, Massachusetts, fell foul smelling an object, covered with a kind of sweater. He was examined by Rufus Graves, who took his hair and found under it, a pulpy substance < < > > color of leather. To contact with the air the substance took < < a color stripe, as the object of venous blood in what they said, had fallen, producing a bright light ("Annual Register, 1821).
was June 17, 1857, when Mr. Bradley, a farmer in Ottawa, Illinois, and heard a hissing sound, looked up and saw a mass of glowing embers V-shaped fall to the ground, about 15 feet away , making smoking the ground. The larger pieces were almost fully penetrated into the ground, while smaller surfaced half. Bradley had noticed a small and dense dark cloud overhanging the garden, the weather was rainy, but no thunder or lightning ("The American Journal of Science and Arts, November 1857).
A shower of candy (!!!) has been reported in some areas of Lake County, California, on the nights of 2 and 11 September 1857. < < Allegedly, those two nights was rained a shower of candy, the crystals measured from 3 to 6 mm in length and were as thick as a quill pen. Some ladies of the place made it the syrup > > (Lyman L. Palmer, "History of Napa and Lake Counties, California).
the evening of Sunday the Holy Trinity, in 1908, the parish priest of St-Etienne-lès-Remiremont, a parish located a few kilometers from the Vosges mountains in France, was comfortably seated in canonical reading a powerful < < > > Treaty of geology. He had just read a few pages on the formation of ice when she heard the door open, the rectory and Miss Marie André call: < < curate, he may soon be, are melting!
Reluctantly Gueniot father got up to see what it was, the rest of the story continues with his own words.
"Look," he said, "here is the image of Our Lady of the Treasury, printed on hailstones. "" Come, come, "I replied," I come to tell lies. "To make her happy, I looked absently two beans in his hand, but since I did not see anything, and most importantly I could not have see anything without glasses, I turned around and went back to my book. She became urgent: "Please, put your glasses." I did, and I saw very clearly on the front of the grains, which were slightly convex at the center while the edges were irregular, the bust of a woman, as raised in fund as a cope. I could probably describe it more precisely by saying that it was like the Lady of the Hermits. The edges of the image were slightly scored, it seemed that they had been obtained with a punch, but they were very sharp.
André Marie asked me to observe some details of the dress, but I refused to watch any longer. I was ashamed of my credulity, feeling sure that the Blessed Virgin would not have taken the trouble to print pictures of herself on the hailstones. I said, "But I do not see that these grains must have fallen on vegetables and must have received these impressions from them? Take them away, I do not know what to do. " I returned to my book without further worry about what had happened.
But my mind was disturbed by the singularity of those hailstones, they picked up three, weighed, without looking closely. They weighed from 170 to 200 grams, one of them was perfectly round, like balls with which children play, and had a crest in relief all around, as if cast in a mold (not rare reports of hailstones edged to wrinkles or ridges, Ed.) During dinner (I was alone) I said: "However, these hailstones have an unusual shape and the imprint of those two that I examined was so smooth and precise that it could hardly be attributed to chance." But I soon stiffened against any temptation to believe in the paranormal, and I was ashamed of having thought for a moment.
When the priest had finished his dinner, but the storm had passed, and the priest came into the garden to inspect the damage from her garden. He had the happy surprise to see that bad weather had damaged the fruit, later learned that he had broken glass in about 1400 homes in the area. It seemed that the storm had produced two types of grains, those with the miraculous image and a larger type and destructive, that it seemed worthy of attention, the pastor continued, was that the grains, which should have been thrown violently to the ground according to the laws of the acceleration of the speed of falling bodies, seem to fall from a height of only a few meters and have the initial velocity of a body that continues to fall. The testimony of the pastor as continues
< < Towards half past seven, near the parsonage turned the items that many people had seen the image of Our Lady of the Treasury printed on the hailstones, and that many grains were shaped medallions. The children picked them on their aprons, and had made them see their parents, who had noted the presence of the same image. Some even saw small details, like the crown of the Virgin and Child Jesus, the fringes of her dress. It was all imaginary? But aside from these details, there is no doubt that most of the grains separately examined bore the image of Our Lady of the Treasury. The next morning, transporters milk, returning from Remiremont, reported that many people in town had seen the same thing.
After the following Sunday evening, the parish collected 50 signatures of people who were < < absolutely convinced of the truth of their observations, do not attach much importance, he said, these signatures which would also have been the inspiration, but in reality they were given voluntarily.
The pastor concluded by noting that, although the authorities of the Remiremont had denied permission for a solemn procession, which was scheduled on Sunday of the SS. Trinity, the artillery of heaven had organized a procession in the vertical that no one could forbid (Inglese Mechanic and World of Science ", June 12, 1908).
Edward Mootz, 17,30, 22 July 1955, was working in the garden of his house in Boal Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Suddenly, a few drops of red liquid and warm fell on his arms and hands in an instant, a red rain began to fall all around him. He came from a bulge protruding from a dark cloud, and was spraying a peach tree in her garden. So recalled:
I looked up and right above my head, about 300 meters high, was the most curious cloud I had ever seen: it was a big cloud, but had strange colors, was dark green, red and pink. The red was similar to that of the strange substance that struck me and my family tree, whatever it was, I saw that came from that cloud. I watched the clouds for a minute, trying to figure out, then his hands and arms began to burn in the affected parts of the drops, I did really bad, like when you pour alcohol on an open wound, I ran into the house and washed with soap and water.
The rain actually looked like blood, appeared oily and sticky to the touch. The next morning, Edward Mootz discovered that the fish had died during the night with all the grass around him, and all the fruit hanging from the tree had withered on the branches. At the time of the reverse there were no aircraft in the area and it seems unlikely that a chemical plant or a factory may have produced a cloud capable of hovering over a point so limited for several minutes. Mootz was interviewed by representatives of the Air, which also be sampled tree, fruit and grass, though they may have discovered has not been made public, and the deadly nature of the rain remains a mystery ("Enquirer of Cincinnati, August 28, 1955, "The Cincinnati Post, February 3, 1975).
dime and a penny half penny dropped, one day in 1956, around the children who came out of school in Hanham, a suburb of Bristol, England (John Michell and Robert JM Rickard, "Phenomena: A Book of Wonders ").
"Thousands" of 1000 francs notes rained down on Bourges in 1957. No one ever claimed the property or it will report the loss (John Michell and Robert JM Rickard, "Phenomena: A Book of Wonders").
Perhaps this report does not cover abnormal falling objects, but strange is the same: a November afternoon in 1958 it rained for two and a half hours over an area of \u200b\u200babout 10 square meters in the home of Mrs. R. Babington in Alexandria, Louisiana. At that moment the sky was perfectly serene and neither the weather nor the office of the nearby air base were able to give an explanation of the phenomenon ("Alexandria Daily Town Talk, November 11, 1958).
During the year 1968, a deluge of mud, wood, glass shards and rushed four times for the city of Pinar del Rio, Cuba (John Michell and Robert JM Rickard, "Phenomena: A Book of Wonders").
A number of banknotes to the value of 2000 marks floating down from the sky in Limburg (West Germany) in January 1976, the money "heaven" were collected from two clergymen ("Bath and West Evening Chronicle" of January 6, 1976 ).
What about all these phenomena? True stories or jokes of some prankster? Impossible to say, the only solution is to look at the sky and try to discover as much as possible about the nature and the paranormal, UFOs and the human mind, perhaps the answers will come by themselves.
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