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White frogs fell on Mosely, a suburb of Birmingham,England during a severe storm on the morning of June 30,1892
~Symon's Monthly Meteorological Magazine 32;107, Aug 1887
Hundreds of small catfish,trout,and perch fell during a heavy rain at Tiller's Ferry,South Carolina in June of 1901.
Afterwards, they were found swimming in pools of water that had accumulated between the rows of cotton on a plantation belonging
to Charles Raley.
~source:Monthly Weather Review,29:263, June 1901
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During the reign of Charlemagne (9th Century A.D.) an enormous block of ice,990 cubic feet of it,fell from the sky.
~Camille Flammarion,The Atmosphere,p.398
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A fiberous substance resembling blue silk fell in great quanities at Narumburg,Germany on March 23,1665
~Annals of Philosophy,New Series 12:93,August 1826
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For 10 to 12 days, Despite the sunshine and cloudless skies over small area of Chesterfield County,South Carolina,
it rained incessantly,almost nonstop.
~The New York Sun,Oct.1886
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A small yellow cloud passed rapidly over Paderborn,Germany during a thunderstorm, When the cloud broke, a clattering rain
of living pond mussels fell on the town.
~Nature,47:278,Jan. 19,1893
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Something described as 'sulpher rain' fell on Mt. Vernon, Kentucky on March 28,1898 and at several other places in Rocksdale
County. The substance was flammable and smelled of sulphur.
~Monthly Weather Review,26:115, March 1898
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On several occasions during the winter of 1891, the people of Valley Bend disctrict of Randolph County,West Virginia
found the snow thickly covered with worms.Since the snow was two feet deep and had a hard crust, it was logically proposed
that the worms could have only came from the sky along with snow. They were reported to be 'ordinary worms' (a nocturnal caterpiller
in the family Noctuidae) and to be so abundant that a 'square foot of snow can scarcely be found on some days without at least
a dozen worms on it'.
~Source:Scientific American,64;116,Feb 21,1891
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An edible substance consisting of small yellowish spherules,white on the inside, fell over an area of 3 sqaure miles
in the neighborhood of Mardin and Diyarbakir,Turkey in August 1890. The local people made it into a bread that was said to
be of good flavor and easily digestable. Botanists declared the substance to be lichen,perhaps Lecanora esculenta
~nature,43;255,Jan 15,1891
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A burning object fell into Lake Van, Armenia, in A.D.1110,turning the waters red. In the first plague of Egypt the Nile turned
to blood.
~(Exodus 7:15-24)
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White Frogs fell on Mosely, a suburb of Birmingham,England, during a severe storm on the morning of June 30,1892.
~Symon's Monthly Meteorological Magazine,32:107,Aug 1893
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Several hundred sand eels fell on an area of about1/3 of an acre at Hendon,a suburb of Sunderland,England on Aug. 24,1918.
There was heavy rain, and the fish were not only dead but stiff and hard when picked up just after the occurence.
~Nature,102:46,Sept. 19,1918
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During a violent storm angular black pebbles fell on Wolverhampton,England in such quanties that they had to be shoveled away.
~Las Science Pour Tous,5:264,July 19,1860
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