Red rain from another planet?

On July 25th, 2001, red rain fell over Chenganacherry in Kerala. People said that the red color shower began after an airburst. Closer examination by Indian Scientists, Dr L Godfrey and Chandra Wickramasinghe, found that red rain wasn’t because of dust particles. They have found organisms that look like biological cells under a microscope, but under an electron microscope they show the total absence of DNA. All life forms on the earth have DNA, so the absence of DNA indicates that they are extra-terrestrial!!!

The scientists propose that extra-terrestrial life was brought from space by a streaking comet, which burst over the sky creating the boom that people reported.



Red rain has also been reported in Europe in the 19th century, which was considered to be dust from the Sahara desert. So red rain can be considered as a process by which extra-terrestrial life can reach this planet. If this discovery is verified by scientists from different parts of the globe then it could change our idea of life and our universe. Aliens don’t need to be creatures from X-files or Men in black, but could be all around us. We probably just haven’t opened our eyes to them!

Interesting Links:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1723913,00.html
http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/mar/08gspec.htm
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601022