Fishy tale: The story of fish falling out of the skies above Sri Lanka seems indisputable. Videos taken in the district of Chilaw show people collecting the little fish in buckets.
In Qatar more rain seems to fall from my air conditioning units than from the sky. Sometimes the units spit ice, and once or twice as a special treat, they've thrown a cockroach at me. In parts of the world which are wetter than Qatar, it seems that nature is just as fickle; at the beginning of the month it wasn't cockroaches, but small fish which rained down on western Sri Lanka.
Tales of creatures raining from the skies have been told throughout history. The Roman natural philosopher, Pliny the Elder, wrote about storms of fish and frogs in the first century AD. For years many people assumed that these stories were myths, or at least exaggerations, but nowadays there is no doubting the truth surrounding these tales. There are simply too many stories and too much evidence supporting them.
Certainly the story of fish falling out of the skies above Sri Lanka seems indisputable. Video taken on May 5 in the district of Chilaw shows people collecting the little fish in buckets. The video also proves that some of the little creatures were alive when they came out of the sky, as when water was added to the buckets, the fish swam around, gasping for breath.
The strange thing is that no one has ever seen creatures getting sucked up into the air, they've only ever been seen falling from the sky. How they get into the sky is therefore assumed rather than proved. It's believed that a tornado must move across a coastal region or a river, and suck the sealife out of the water. The strong winds in the upper atmosphere can then carry the creatures vast distances before they eventually fall back to earth.
Comment: Important clues on the why of this phenomena: Creatures from the deep signal major Earth Changes: Is anyone paying attention?