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Kansas Town Rains Corn, Baffles Weather Experts WICHITA, Kan. (Reuters) - Townspeople and weather experts were scratching their heads in puzzlement after large quantities of corn husks fell from the skies on Wichita, Kansas, over the weekend.

According to news reports, thousands of foot-long and larger leaves from corn stalks fell like rain across the eastern edge of this south-central Kansas city on Saturday and Sunday.

``It was a pretty large area where people reported it,'' said Weather Data Inc. meteorologist Chad Pettera. ``I think it is very odd.''

Pettera said that in cases of high winds, tornadoes, thunderstorms and other extreme weather events it was not unusual for objects to fall from the sky after getting blown long distances.

But there has been no unusual weather to explain the falling corn husks, he said.

``In our area there has been no weather to speak of, no high winds. It's just been very hot and dry'' he said.

Some speculated that an airplane may somehow have been responsible, but there is no evidence to back up the theory.

``There weren't strong winds. I don't see how they could have gotten blown up in the air,'' National Weather Service (news - web sites) meteorological technician Holly Kreutzer told a local newspaper.

Kansas is known as the largest wheat producing state in the United States, but also grows a significant amount of corn each summer.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Answers

Thought I would bump this to the new answers page. Just thought this was plain weird.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

That is weird. Corny, but weird.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

Body Drops From Sky

he body of a man believed to be an airplane stowaway plummeted from the sky last night and landed in a Nassau County parking lot, police said.

Witnesses called 911 about 6:30 p.m. after they heard a thud and saw the dead man lying in the Island Park lot.

Nassau County cops said the man probably had hidden in the landing gear wheel well of a jet approaching Kennedy Airport, then fell out when the wheels were deployed.

Island Park, on Nassau's South Shore, is in the flight path of many planes going to and from the airport.

Police were trying to determine which aircraft the man fell from.

A Port Authority source said the man could have fallen from one of five planes that landed at the airport at about the time the body was spotted.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001