Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

Via Newspapers.com



It's time for another round of Anomalous Falls!  The "Jackson Clarion-Ledger," September 11, 1956:

MERIDIAN-P. F. Watkins, Meridian, Route 4, said here Saturday that during a light rain and a dead calm, a sweet-gum tree limb, 15 feet long and eight inches in diameter, fell into his yard Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Weather Bureau reports that no stormy conditions were in the state at that time. 

Watkins is the father of H. C. (Mike) Watkins, Meridian attorney. No sweet gum tree is growing in that section. The limb had the appearance of being twisted off a tree, indicating that a heavy wind of cyclonic proportions, possibly hundreds or more miles away, twisted off the limb, whirled it into the sky and carried it until the strength of the wind died down and the limb dropped to earth.

I can't say I find that explanation terribly convincing, but it doesn't seem like anyone came up with a better theory.
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1 comment:

  1. John BellenAugust 3, 2022 at 7:09 PM

    What we need for evidence of the theory is for some aeroplane crew to see the branch - or whatever is being hurled about at the time - in mid-flight.

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