It’s Raining Fish In Australia

The small town of Lajamanu, in Australia’s Northern Territory was witness to the bizarre phenomena of raining fish this week.

The town was pelted with fish from the sky, not once but twice this week. On both Thursday and Friday night at around 18:00 towns folk saw hundreds of small white fish rain down from above. Local resident Christine Balmer took some photographs and even tried to save a few fish from dying by putting them in buckets of water.

“It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night,” she said,

“They fell from the sky everywhere. These fish were alive when they hit the ground.”

[quote]Lajamanu, which sits on the edge of the Tanami Desert, hundreds of miles from any lakes, is a hotbed for raining fish activity. Similar events have been recorded in the area twice before, once in 1974 and even as recently as 2004. Meteorologists believe that the fish rain back down to Earth after being sucked up into the air by tornadoes, but Lajamanu is hundreds of miles from any large bodies of water and no tornadoes have been reported in the area all last week.

Mrs Balmer is just relieved that she’s not going mad and that it could’ve been a lot worse.

“Thank god it didn’t rain crocodiles” she said.

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