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While the idea of shooting to the moon is often considered by astronomers, the possibility of projectiles ever having been shot to the earth is hardly considered at all. Yet strange carved stones of Avhich 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 Avith ice, fell at ' Tarbes, in France. In 1892 another stone, also carved, dropped in a plantation in Dutch Guiana, Avhile a carved cylinder of stone was reported to have fallen in the United States in 1910.
A possible explanation concerning the stone that fell at Tarbes Avas made at the time by Professor Sudre, Avho thought that it must have been swept up in a whirlwind in some other part of the Avorld and then dropped at Tarbes.
But while such a supposition might be accepted ais possible, more convincing evidence is required, for should the scientists 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.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1781, 10 July 1926, Page 6
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