Look up, way up, and I'll call Angie and Fiddle

Doing research into expedition artists (the folk who paint and sketch the things that explorers go looking for before cameras were useful) landed me on quite few web sites devoted to things that fell from the sky.

There is a long history of objects pummeling the earth. Pretty much from ancient times onward man has seen stones, cinders, toads, fish (quite a few actually) and especially since air travel is common, the odd plane part and frozen poop.

And then there is meat. Seems that meat has fallen lots of times. Lets see starting in 1851 near San Fransisco troops reported seeing pieces of meat, apparently beef (how did they check?) falling from a cloudless sky.

Sampson County, North Carolina reported that in the same year meat as well as liver, brains and blood fell from the sky. No mention as to what cut of meat it was. Again in 1884 meat fell from the sky in Chatham County.

In 1869 on a farm near Los Nietos, California, more meat came down. This time in strips.

We move now to Bath, Kentucky when in 1876 cubes of beef (what else?) landed on the Crouch family farm.

Every meat fall occurred on clear cloudless days. Think I'll use the grocery store.