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Blood Rain and Star Jelly

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Every year, planet earth is bombarded with tons of material from outer space. This amazing fact is most evident during spectacular displays of "falling stars," but most of the time it goes unnoticed. However, there have been accounts throughout history of strange discoveries after meteor showers. Some report a blood red rain; others have discovered blobs of an unknown gelatinous substance where the meteors supposedly fell. Stories and superstition have grown around these mysterious events. Today, scientists investigate the mystery using the latest tools and knowledge, and what theyre discovering might prove some of the superstitions to be true.

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When the Sky Rains Blood and Goo It’s known that 100 tons of comet debris enters the Earth’s atmosphere on a daily basis. What scientists discover in this debris could forever change our understanding of life in the universe. On September 28, 1969 a meteor shower rained over Murchison, Australia. Scientists later collected more than 200 pounds of meteoric material and discovered amino acids, the chemical building blocks of DNA, within it. NASA continued to study this meteoric material and found cyano bacteria, many of which can be identified to genus and species of cyano bacteria that we know on Earth. In August 1994 a strange, gelatinous rain pummeled the tiny town of Oakville, Washington, during the annual Perseid meteor shower. The mysterious goo contained pseudomonas fluorescens and enterobacter cloaque, bacteria capable of causing serious illness. Biologist Tim Davis analyzed the substance and found what he believed to be a eukaryiotic cell, a complex cell with a nucleus. In July 2001, blood red rain fell on India. Godfrey Louis, a physicist at the Mahatma Gandhi University, studied the red rain and found what appeared to be biological cells. On November 28, 2001 in Manchester, England, paranormal investigator Stephen Mara was called to investigate reports of lights falling from the sky. But what he found was completely unexpected: a gelatinous blob. Star jelly sightings after meteor showers occur around the world. Meteorite finds in the past prove that they can maintain a frozen core during entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Theoretically, anything frozen in this core could remain intact upon landing. People have documented the phenomena of red rain and gelatinous rain with surprising frequency. Some of the reports date back to medieval times.

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