FROM OTHER WORLDS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12298, 18 November 1925, Page 4

FROM OTHER WORLDS

SOME STRANGE VISITANTS.

While the idea of shooting to the moon is often considered by astronomors, the possibility of projectiles ever 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 tunes.' In 1887 a small carved stone, covo---ed with ice, fell at Tarbes, in France. In 1892 anothor stone, also carved, dropped in a plantation in Dutch Guiana, while a carved cylinder of stone was reported to have fallen :n the United States in 1910,

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

But while 6uch a supposition might bo accepted as possible, more convincing evidence is required, for Bhould the scientist’s surmise in regard to the whirlwind'he correct, it is strange that tho stone should have fallen alone —without any of tho other things a whirlwind would bo bound to collect.