Sysop's note:  Here's a bunch more Fortean material from a long-vanished
caller to this BBS.  The Forteans aim to publicise accounts of incidents
that are in conflict with established science.  If they did a more
careful and selective job of this, they might be doing the cause of
science a big favour.  What follows is classic Forteana:  things
allegedly falling from the sky -- usually long ago in far-away places,
with essentially no opportunity for further investigation into the facts.
Enjoy, anyway.                      -- Rick Moen, The Skeptic's Board




    (although I have quite a few, here are the ones that seem quite related)

    - Nut-sized lumps of odorless, gray resinous matter fell on Vilna,
Lithuania, during a rainstorm on April 4, 1846. When the material was burned,
it released a persuasive sweet smell. After being soaked in water for 24 hours
it swelled and seemed completely gelatinous.
    - On November 11 in the same year a luminous object estimated at about 4
feet in diameter fell at Loweville, New York, leaving behind -or becoming- a
heap of foul-smelling jelly.
    - On January 21, 1803, a shooting star fell to the earth in Silesia,
between Barsdorf and Freiburg (now Swiebodzice); its trajectory was low, and
witnesses heard a whizzing sound as it flew by. For some time the meteorite
seemed to lie burning on th ground, and its point of impact was therefore
easily observed. In the morning a mass of jellylike material was found in the
snow of its landing place.
    - A light crossed the night skies over the Irish county of Westmeath in
Feb.1958 and was seen to land in a field. A number of people rushed to the
landing site, where they found only a mass of gelatinous material (see a trend
setting here?)
    (ok, that's all I got ahold of fer the blobs, but here's some others...)
   
    - A carpenter, working on the roof of his house near Dusseldorf, Germany,
on Jan.10, 1951, died after being impaled by a shaft of ice. It was 6 feet
long, 6 inches in diameter, and fell from the sky.
    - A small yellow cloud passed rapidly over Paderborn, Germany, during a
thunderstorm. When the cloud broke, a clattering rain of living pond mussels
fell onto the town.
    - On August 27, 1968, blood and flesh fell on an area of about one-third
of a square mile between the Brazilian towns of Cacapava and Sao Jose dos
Campos. The fall was reported to have lasted about 5 to 7 minutes.
    - About half a ton of ox genitals fell on the Swiss town of Gorf. About
three people were crushed to death (just kiddin about this one..made it up
mahself, just to keep ya on yer toes...).
    - During the reign of Charlemagne (ninth century AD) an enormous block of
ice, 990 cubic feet of it, fell from the sky.
      
     PHEW that's all for now...(ox genitals??)
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