A two-month rainstorm in southern India may be the most compelling evidence yet that extraterrestrial lifeforms have visited Earth.
The above line has not been nicked from the screenplay of an ambitious sci-fi. It is the opening statement of an article published in the HuffPost. The Guardian ran a similar story titled,“Red rain could prove that aliens have landed.”
Sensational and far-fetched as they might sound, the stories had set the scientific community abuzz with what they hoped was evidence of extraterrestrial life. The triggering incident? The red rains of Idukki.
When it rained aliens
In July 2001, red rain lashed across Kerala. It burned leaves, stained clothes and turned the water a gory hue. Witnesses heard a sonic boom as the skies burst open and bled. One can only imagine the sheer horror of the residents.
Scientific records say Kerala and Sri Lanka have been exposed to sporadic instances of red rain since the 1890s. Yet, it is difficult to ascertain if the same was retained in local living memory. Naturally, theories ran wild. A divine curse, an apocalypse, the end of the earth, to say a few. The most plausible of these was the one presented by Physicist Godfrey Louis.
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