Case file · High strangeness
Kentucky meat shower
On 3 March 1876 chunks of what looked like red meat fell from a clear sky over a small area near Olympia Springs, Bath County, Kentucky.
1876 CE · 38.06, -83.67 · status: explained
The account
Samples went to scientists in several states. One theory called it Nostoc, a jelly-like cyanobacterium, but microscopists identified lung tissue, muscle and cartilage. Charles Fort later used it in The Book of the Damned.
The sceptical view
The favoured explanation, then and now, is that vultures disgorged their meal in flight, as they do when one bird starts and the flock follows.