On 10 Mar, 00:19, "Yokel" wrote:

I have been to that part of Australia and it's pretty remote. *It would be
more remarkable if a tornado *had* been spotted, there being so much Outback
for the tornado to visit and so few people to see it.

If the fish were still alive when they hit the ground, it is extremely
unlikely they went up to 60 000 or 70 000 feet - that's about twice as high
as the summit of Mt Everest and the temperature at a tropopause that high
would surely be somewhere around -70C to -80C. *Knock a "nought" off the end
and we have a rather more credible scenario for a survivable voyage. *Having
said that, I believe there was an incident once when a pilot had to bale out
of his aircraft in a thunderstorm and the updraught caught his parachute,
taking him up to somewhere between 20 000 and 30 000 feet and turning him
into a kind of giant hailstone.

What is most remarkable about this sort of thing is that the creatures
are all the same size and all the same species no matter where the
report comes from.

You'd think it would be explained by now considering it is such a
regular occurrence in Honduras that they have festivals celebrating
the phenomenon.

The pilot was wearing a survival suit of some kind he worked for the
Met service in the USA and it was about 1958 IIRC. The flying suit
seams were imprinted on his skin indicating his body swelled in the
low pressure.

I wouldn't put it past the Yanks to have experimented with more humans
since then. When was the Roswel incident? '51 wasn't it? Plenty of
Brown skinned people to play with in those days.

And reds.