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Unexplained Blood Falls From Sky
The rain of blood, also known as blood rain, was an unusual event that was thought to be a bad omen in Antiquity, and this belief persisted into the Middle Ages and well into the Early Modern period.
Blood rain has occurred throughout history, from ancient times to the present. The first literary instance is in Homer’s Iliad, where Zeus causes a rain of blood twice, once to warn of slaughter in a battle. The same portent appears in the work of the poet Hesiod, who wrote around 700 BC; author John Tatlock speculates that Hesiod’s story was influenced by the Iliad.
Plutarch, a first-century Greek biographer, also recounts a tradition of blood rain during Romulus’, Rome’s, reign. Livy and Pliny, Roman authors, record some later cases of blood rain, with Livy describing it as a bad omen.
Enslaved workers in Wilson County, Tennessee, reported in July 1841 that just before noon, a small red cloud appeared in an otherwise clear sky; from the cloud fell a shower of “blood, muscular fiber, adipose matter,” in the words of a local physician, W. P. Sayle, who investigated it on the spot.
Sayle wrote to a chemistry professor at the University of Nashville, enclosing some samples:
“The particles I send you I gathered with my own hands; the extent of the surface over which it spread and the regular manner in which it exhibited on some green tobacco leaves leave very little or no doubt of its having fallen like a shower of rain….I have sent what I think to be a drop of blood, the other particles composed of muscle and fat, although the proportion of the shower appeared to be a much larger quantity of blood than of other properties.”
G.W. Bassett of Virginia, another doctor, described the incident in a letter to a colleague in the spring of 1850:
“Around four o’clock yesterday, Good Friday, a small cloud passed over Mr. Chas. H. Clarke and several of my servants, a few paces from the south bank of the Pamunkey River in the lower end of Hanover County, Virginia, on the estate called Farmington, and discharged various pieces of flesh and liver, too well defined in each sort to allow any mistake in their character.
I gathered from the spot this morning from four to six ounces, distributed over the above-mentioned surface; the pieces picked up at the farthest points, in a line from N.W. to S.E., were about 25 paces apart and weighed close to an ounce. The cloud’s direction was from N.E. to S.W., as described by Mr. Clarke, who is a gentleman of intelligence and established credibility.
Mr. Brown and I went to the spot this morning, and we all helped in picking up 15 to 20 pieces, which I have by me at the moment, and from which I send you a sample, which I hope will be passed over to Dr. Gibson so that he can determine what kind of flesh it is. The flesh and liver are in perfect condition at the moment, and the latter part I will put in alcohol for future inspection by the curious.”
A similarly grisly rain is said to have taken place the previous February 15 in Simpson County, North Carolina, were pieces of flesh, liver, brains, and blood, all looking fresh, fell out of a red cloud and splattered over an area of thirty feet wide and 250 to 300 yards long.
According to the San Francisco Herald of July 24, 1851, blood and flesh, with pieces ranging in size from a pigeon’s egg to a small orange, descended in a two- to three-minute shower on an Army station at Benicia, California, covering a spot of ground thirty yards wide and 300 yards long.
One Sunday in July 1869, blood was said to have fallen from the sky and landed on two acres of a cornfield near Los Angeles. Those who saw it — a funeral party that included members of the clergy — had no doubt that the substance was blood. It was not only a thick, vivid red, but it also contained hairs and organ fragments.
It’s easier to believe that stories like these are entirely fabricated than it is to believe that the fallen material was actually water colored by dust or plant matter. After all, we have rational, educated witnesses here.
Furthermore, these are not the only such stories. During a storm on October 16 and 17, 1846, a vividly red and bloodlike rain caused widespread terror among French witnesses.
A chemist who examined the material under a microscope noticed a “large quantity of corpuscles.” More specifically, the Italian Meteorological Bureau identified the red stuff that rained on Messignadi, Calabria, as bird’s blood.
On March 8, 1876, “flakes of meat” came down out of the sky to land on a Bath County, Kentucky, field, and one brave witness tasted a “perfectly fresh” sample. According to Scientific American (March 1876), it reminded him of “mutton or venison.”
This widely publicized occurrence sparked considerable debate and quickly fell victim to two conventional, contradictory, and unconvincing explanations.
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On May 24th, Brian May, a founding member of the rock band Queen who later earned a Ph.D. in astrophysics, posted several images to Instagram of a crop circle seen near Marlborough, England.
“Have you noticed anything out of the ordinary here in the English countryside?” The photos were captioned by May. “I’d never seen a crop circle before. As a result, I’m always skeptical of them. But yesterday, as we flew back from our production rehearsal space, over a location near Marlborough, there was this. […] Who creates these fascinating works of mathematical art? Is it a hoax? Are they created by extraterrestrials? And… how…? And what is their goal?”
Responses to May’s post have been mixed, with some claiming that the phenomenon is paranormal, while others believe that hoaxers are to blame.
Crop circles have sparked speculation in the modern era since at least the mid-1970s, with theories ranging from hoaxers to otherworldly beings to “earth energies.”
Despite the fact that people have claimed responsibility for certain crop circle formations, mysterious circles of flattened plants discovered in fields date back much further than modern-day hoaxers.
W.Y. Evans-Wentz recorded folktales of faeries coming in the night to thresh farmers’ grain in his 1911 book The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries. Similarly, in 1678, an English woodcut pamphlet depicts ‘The Mowing-Devil,’ who is shown mowing crops in a circular pattern.
While some dismiss these as folkloric inspiration for modern-day hoaxers, others see them as proof of a phenomenon that predates man-made imitation.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the crop circle photographed by May.
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According to a press release issued by the Department of Defense (DoD):
Due to the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), amended her original directive to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security on July 15, 2022, by renaming and expanding the scope of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Group (AOIMSG) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
USD(I&S) Hon. Ronald S. Moultrie informed the department today of the establishment of AARO within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, and named Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, most recently the chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center, as its director.
The AARO’s mission will be to coordinate efforts across the Department of Defense and other federal departments and agencies in the United States to detect, identify, and attribute objects of interest in, on, or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace, and other areas of interest, and, as needed, to mitigate any associated threats to operational safety and national security. Anomaly, unidentified space, airborne, submerged, and transmedium objects are included.
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USD(I&S)) Ronald Moultrie will lead the AARO Executive Council (AAROEXEC), which will provide oversight and direction to the AARO along the following primary lines of effort:
1. Surveillance, Collection and Reporting
2. System Capabilities and Design
3. Intelligence Operations and Analysis
4. Mitigation and Defeat
5. Governance
6. Science and Technology
This newly reported expansion of the Pentagon’s UFO investigation program follows low congressional trust in their investigative efforts.
Following the release of the much-anticipated preliminary assessment report on UFOs by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence last year, many in the intelligence community were critical of what they saw as the report’s failure to offer any concrete explanations for most of the incidents examined, particularly in light of concerns about secret Russian or Chinese technology.
The Pentagon then promised to revamp the task force in charge of investigating UFOs, which resulted in the formation of the AOIMSG, which has since been renamed the AARO.
This reflects Congress’ growing interest in UFOs, which was most recently demonstrated during a House Intelligence Subcommittee hearing on the subject last May—the first of its kind in more than 50 years.
The congressional hearing allowed lawmakers to question the Pentagon about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)—the current government term for UFOs—and for government officials to explain their current position and outline plans to investigate the issue further.
During the hearing, there were few mentions of extraterrestrials, though the Pentagon did express a particular interest in reports containing unusual flight characteristics such as incredible speed, transmedium capabilities, and undetectable means of propulsion.
Since the existence of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which reportedly ran from 2007 to 2012, was made public in 2017, congressional interest in UFOs has skyrocketed.
Interest in the encounters between Navy pilots and UFOs grew, and in 2019, several senators, including Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), then vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, were briefed on them.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, led at the time by Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), then included a directive in their Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 ordering the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to create a report on “unidentified aerial phenomena” in consultation with the Secretary of Defense.
That bill resulted in the formation of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), which was in charge of producing the aforementioned preliminary assessment report.
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