When Birds Fall from the Sky and Dead Fish Float on Water

Sounds like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie, when birds suddenly start dropping from the sky. Is it a sign of the times, when birds fall from the sky like a shower of rain and dead fish line a river's bank? December 31^st 2010, new year's eve, just before the clock struck twelve it is reported that up to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds plummeted from the sky to their death in Beebe, Arkansas.

To add to the mystery, an estimated 100,000 drum fish were found dead floating in an Arkansas river, but the two incidences are reported as unrelated. Game wardens and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, at the time of one report, seem baffled, "...suspected disease was to blame for the death of the drum fish..." ¹

Are state officials hiding something? Did fireworks, which go off every year at this time, really cause stress on a flock of birds and kill them all? Do you believe it was "lightning" or "high-altitude hail" that caused the birds to suddenly fall out of the sky. What about the fish, if it was some sort of disease or pollutant in the water why did only one species of fish die? Workers cleaning up the dead bird carcasses were wearing United States Environmental Services LLC uniforms, which caused many raised brows.

However, Mike Robertson, mayor in Beebe, Arkansas said, "The workers wore the suits as a matter of routine and not out of fear that the birds might be contaminated."²

The locations where the birds died and the fish were found is not that close, but that does not make the events and less eerie. After reading several reports from different sources, it seems the actual number of birds that dropped out of the sky is questionable. The speculated reasoning, for both cases at this point, sounds like guess work.

We will have to wait for testing to be completed, and hopefully the public will get real answers.

Was it a sign of the times? Are 2012 predictions beginning to unfold? Was it a Biblical prophecy revealing itself? There are many unanswered questions to a mysterious event, many people may soon forget, but residents of Beebe, Arkansas will probably remember for years to come. One can only imagine the confusion and fear felt as red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky.

Sources:

1. 100,000 dead fish in Arkansas near where 5,000 blackbirds dropped from sky - dailytelegraph.com
2. Birds fall from the sky: Thousands of dead birds found in Arkansas - 1/2/2011 The Washington Post, AP