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Rain is liquid precipitation
The title of this page is nonsensical. Rain refers to liquid precipitation. Animals falling from the sky are hailing. Please rename and relocate this article at your earliest convenience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.75.135.3 (talk) 20:27, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Animals falling from the sky aren't even a meteorological phenomenon. 8-leaf clover (talk) 02:46, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Non-rain events
The sources under the spider section both debunk these as "rain". One is called ballooning, a well known, natural spider behavior. The other: "The spider biologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUC-PR), Marta Fischer, analyzed the image and said that the phenomenon is normal and occurs mainly in cities in the interior of São Paulo. "They are spiders of the species Anelosimus Eximius, also known as social spiders. They usually stay in the trees during the day and in the late afternoon and early evening they build a kind of web sheet, each one makes its own and then they come together. The objective is to capture insects ", explains the biologist." This article is not neutral. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8806:A100:73:AD3E:FB3F:3833:8722 (talk) 03:31, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Other objects
If I can find WP:RS reports of the rains of coins, non-meteoric (cold) rocks, food, etc., I propose they be included and the article renamed. MarshallKe (talk) 16:50, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

The following is from The New Inquisition. It should by no means be considered an acceptable source for this article, but we can use it as a starting point for finding actual reliable sources. MarshallKe (talk) 18:48, 16 August 2021 (UTC)


 * 1) May 21, 1921 London Evening Standard - thousands of frogs fell from the sky at Gibraltar.
 * 2) July 21, 1979 Soviet Weekly - shower of frogs in village of Dargan-Ata in Soviet Turkmen
 * 3) May 31, 1981 London Sunday Express, shower of frogs in Nafplion, Greece. Scientists at the Meteorological Institute in Athens were quoted.
 * 4) July 12, 1873 Scientific American - frogs, Kansas City, MO
 * 5) June 16, 1882 Monthly Weather Review - rain of frogs and ice in Dubuque, Iowa
 * 6) August 2, 1889 - L'Astronomie, frogs in Savoy
 * 7) August 1984, Notes and Queries 8-6-190, frogs, Wigan, England, and in the same month in Bath, England, jelly substance idenfified as frogspawn
 * 8) November 11, 1979 Manchester Guardian, black pudding, eggs, bacon, and tomatoes, Castleton, Derbyshire, and happened several times. Police investigation found nothing.
 * 9) September 19, 1980 Essex Evening Echo, "two feet square" block of ice on a golf course, no planes about
 * 10) June 4, 1981 Stockport Express (England), rain of coins in Reddish, one pence to 50 pence pieces.
 * 11) Winter 1982, Fortean Times, witness confirmed the rain of coins, landed embedded in the ground on their sides
 * 12) Charles Fort, Book of the Damned - in 1800, block of ice size of an elephant in Seringpatam, India
 * 13) December 30, 1956 London People, fall of coins in Hanham, Bristol
 * 14) August 5, 1940 London Daily Express, fall of coins in Mesherera, Russia
 * 15) December 10, 1968, London Daily Mirror, fall of coins, bent in the middle, lasting 15 minutes in Gateshead, County Durham
 * 16) American Journal of Science 2-34-298, brick fell from the sky in Richland, South Carolina
 * 17) August 1834 Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 2-32-298, brick, Padua, Italy
 * 18) May 22, 1884 Monthly Weather Review 134 non-meteoric (cold) stones on Bismarck, North Dakota

coincidence/swarming hypothesis
This Skeptoid post put forth the hypothesis that this is just a case of unscrupulous witnesses and coincidence of animal swarming and meteorological phenomenon, but it is not an acceptable source. We should find acceptable sources that propose this hypothesis. MarshallKe (talk) 13:51, 19 August 2021 (UTC)