One hypothesis offered to explain this phenomenon is that strong winds traveling over water sometimes pick up creatures such as fish or frogs, and carry them for up to several miles. However, this primary aspect of the phenomenon has never been witnessed or scientifically tested.
Sometimes the animals survive the fall, In some incidents, however, the animals are frozen to death or even completely encased in ice. Some cases occur just after storms having strong winds, especially during tornadoes.
Occurences
The following list is a selection of examples :Fish
- Singapore, February 22, 1861
- Olneyville, Rhode Island, May 15, 1900
- Marksville, Louisiana, October 23, 1947
- Bhanwad, Jamnagar, India, Oct 24, 2009
- Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia, February 25 and 26, 2010
Frogs and toads
- Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, June 2009 (Occurrences reported throughout the month)
- Rákóczifalva, Hungary, 18–20 June 2010 (two times)
Others
- An unidentified animal (thought to be a cow) fell in California ripped to tiny pieces on August 1, 1869; a similar incident was reported in Olympian Springs, Bath County, Kentucky in 1876
- Worms dropped from the sky in Jennings, Louisiana, on July 11, 2007.
- Spiders fell from the sky in Salta Province, Argentina on April 6, 2007.
- Orange eggs of an unknown species of invertebrate rained down on the Alaskan city of Kivalina on August 4, 2011.
- Spiders fell from rain in Brazil in Feb 2013.
