STRANGE VISITANTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4921, 4 January 1926, Page 3

STRANGE VISITANTS.

FROM OTHER WORLDS. While the idea of shooting to the moon is often considered by-astronom-ers, the possibility of projectiles having been shot to the earth is hardly considered at all. Yet strange carved stones of which there has been no satisfactory explanation have fallen from the sky and been picked 'up at different times. In 1887, a small carved stone, covered with ice, fell at Tarbes in France. In 1892 another stone, also carved, fell in a plantation in Dutch Guiana, and a carvbd cylinder of stone was reported to have fallen in the United States in 1910.

A possible explanation concerning the stone that fell in Tarbes was made at the time by Professor Sudre, who thought that it must have been swept up in a whirlwind in some other part of the world and then dropped at Tarbes.

But while such a supposition might be accepted as possible, more convincing evidence is required for should the scientist’s surmise in regard to the whirlwind be correct it is strange that the stone should have fallen alone—without any of the other things a whirlwind would be bound to collect.