What's with the falling thing?

Ford's first book, The Cursed Book, begins with a discussion of strange objects falling from the sky. Falling objects in the sky may also be his favorite phenomenon. He collected many surprising reports about falling objects from scientific publications: from alabaster to worms, but more frogs, fish and ice cubes. Sometimes they fall in storms or showers, but sometimes they fall in sunny weather, which looks very mysterious.

Many people only vaguely know that there have been reports of strange falling, but they suspect that these reports are just anecdotes and can't be real events. No one who has really studied these phenomena will hold the same view. People can't argue that many things really fall from the sky like rain. This kind of thing happened in the Ford era, and it still happens today. There are also all kinds of sundries, which are equally rich. This mysterious phenomenon is not the weather, but why and how they fall.

Fish and frogs are still common today. For example,1February 22, 994, hundreds of swordfish were found jumping in the parking lot of the Side Hotel in Danmarawi, about 590 kilometers inland from the desert in northern Australia. Each fish was about 1 ~ 2 inches long. A week later, in the same place, a slightly larger fish fell. There was a heavy rain at that time, and the water depth was 12.7 cm overnight. However, as in 1920, more and more strange objects are falling from the sky. 198 1 February, a roasted flounder fell from Barnes, a suburb of London, and got stuck in a crack in the fence. This fish is still edible. Among a large number of other colorful foods, a large number of beans fall in the summer of 197 1 in Opaso, Brazil. The beans landed in Salvador Targino's house. He thinks these beans may have crossed the Atlantic from West Africa, but it is very difficult to prove this because he cooked them. What was not so delicious was a tan shower, which fell on the audience of Clegg Lockhart Tennis Club near Edinburgh in August. 1995. Its smell soon made people understand that it was human excrement.

Rarely, something unique sometimes falls from the sky. There is a legend in Sweden that there is a strange animal, which is generally considered to be a Scandinavian mountain god. In the summer of 1708, it fell into the streets of Nokoping. Other unusual objects also fell from the sky, such as worms, mussels, grass, nuts and bloody big fish. The strangest thing is a silverware box, which was left in Lynn Connolly's back garden in Hal in February 1973, just above the passing Mrs Connolly's head. There is a half-used clipboard with the initials T.B engraved on it and the word "Clay Pether". It turns out that Clay Pether is the old name of a Lithuanian seaport. 1973, the harbor was closed for some reason, which made the origin of the silver box more mysterious.

There are things that fall from the sky, and there are things that are often thought to fall from airplanes. The grilled flounder that landed in Barnes is said to be an on-board meal. However, it is very unlikely that the crew on board will throw food in mid-air, and it is usually piled up on the plane until it lands. At first, some people thought that the excrement left on Craig Lockhart's tennis court was due to the abnormal function of the plane going to the toilet, because there was evidence that several kinds of "pure ice"-urine mixed with water and disinfectant-fell to the ground. This explanation seems more reasonable, because the flight from Edinburgh to Birmingham was passing overhead at that time, but the inspection of all toilets on the plane ruled out the possibility of problems with the plane.

This is the strangest place for falling objects. Of course, planes flying at a very high altitude will have some small ice cubes and then fall to the ground. However, before the manned flight, there were incidents of ice falling in the sky. One of Charles Ford's favorite examples is a huge hail, which is said to be as big as an elephant. It landed at Padan in Seringa around 1800. The source of Ford's story sounds ridiculous, but it is impeccable. This is quoted in the annual report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Another explanation is often used to explain the situation that frogs and fish fall from the sky. Those careless animals were blown up from rivers or ponds by tornadoes passing by the sea, and then they were thrown somewhere by the roadside. This statement is worth recommending: on the one hand, it has long been known that some falling objects in the sky are indeed caused by tornadoes at sea. 191311,in Quarendi, New South Wales, a cyclone caused fish to fall; 192 1 6 A tornado also left fish in Anshao, Louis. However, the theory of tornadoes at sea also has shortcomings. I haven't heard of any toad falling, and I haven't heard of smelly soil, broken bottles, old bicycles and other sundries often nesting in the pond with fish frogs. Besides, this theory cannot easily explain most strange examples. There are a lot of things whose colors are falling. 1859 In February, in Ashton, South Wales, a large number of freshwater minnows and spiny fish fell from the sky, covering a long and narrow land, all of which were fish. For a long time, people thought that nothing was left outside except this extremely restrictive rectangle. However, a researcher recently showed that falling things were also found in the surrounding mountains. )

A more peculiar example of the same phenomenon is an event that happened on the other side of the earth in the spring of about 1986. A group of fishermen on Cribadi Island, thousands of miles away in the northeast of Australia, drifted in the Pacific Ocean in an open boat for more than four months because the motor of the boat broke down. They lived by catching sharks, but they soon got tired of eating that stuff every day. Later, as the person who finally came to save them explained, "One Saturday night, they were praying to catch a different kind of fish, because they had vomited when they saw the shark. At this moment, something fell on the boat. This is a rare snakehead, which cannot be caught by trawl. It never surfaced and only lived under water about 990 kilometers deep. " Even excluding the unusual accidental factors when the fish falls, it is a miracle that the Kribaldi fish can fall, because it is difficult for people to understand how such a fish was blown up by a tornado and how it was let go by a passing bird.

In the past, one of the most mysterious things about this flying object in the sky was "angel's hair", which is a filament formed by an obvious gelatinous substance. They fall from the sky and dissolve when they touch the ground. It is sometimes associated with flying saucers, and there are many recorded examples that it is actually solid waste discharged by flying saucers. For example, on June 1952 65438+ 10/7, people saw a very long and narrow cylinder with about 30 smaller objects beside it. They all have angelic hair hanging down behind them. Many of them fell to the ground, and some of them were still hanging on some bushes and telephone lines. They kept it for several hours.

Since 1950s, there have been fewer and fewer reports about angel hair, which may be partly because in 1970s, UFO Research Center has found some materials for analysis. It is found that the hair of an angel is only a kind of spider web, but the spider web itself sometimes has very mysterious characteristics. They sometimes pile up in unusual numbers-so spectacular that people can't help asking how many spiders are involved in this web-weaving activity. For example, on the night of1October 4th, 1988, 10, the coast guard patrolling the English Channel outside Dorset, England, reported that they saw a spider web cloud with an estimated area of about 77 square kilometers. In the modern battlefield, cobwebs also have dangerous meanings. During the conflict in Bosnia, there were several reports that a "mysterious reticular substance" was released from Serbia and floated on the heads of local people. The scientists collected several samples for analysis. Under the microscope, they look like composite materials, not natural cobwebs. However, people still have to worry about the motivation of Serbs to release this apparently harmless substance.