In the summer of 2001 the sky above Kerala, India appeared to rain blood for a period of six weeks. Strange red drops fell from above, confusing locals and reminding some from afar of the classic anomalous phenomenon championed by the late Charles Fort—namely, a rain of toads—which has also been popularized in the closing scenes of movies like The Last Wave and Magnolia. But when scientists looked for an explanation of this abnormal occurrence, they found neither frogs nor blood. Their best guesses involve something even more unbelievable—an alien invasion.

More than 55 tons of red matter fell inside of raindrops. This extraterrestrial hypothesis is detailed in a study conducted by Dr. Godfrey Louis and A. Santhosh Kumar of Mahatma Gandhi University and recently published in Astrophysics and Space Science. The paper claims that the crimson colored microbes are similar to known unicellular organisms yet they contain no DNA. How did they get here? A comet passed the Earth in 2001 and dropped them off, panspermia style. The sonic boom was loud enough to be heard on Earth.

• Red rain may have ‘extraterrestrial origin
• Skepticism greets claim of possible alien microbes
• Alien Rain On India