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WHAT IS THIS CAUGHT ON WEATHER RADAR WHEN THE
BIRDS DROPPED FROM THE SKY?
Weather radar shows something unusual around time birds fell

Jan 7, 2011

A weather radar screen doesn't just show the weather, apparently.
The National Weather
Service in North Little Rock examined a speck on the radar that showed up around the same
time all the birds fell out of the sky from alleged trauma on New Year's Eve.  
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A weather radar screen doesn't just show the weather,
apparently. The National Weather Service in North Little Rock examined a speck on the radar
that showed up around the same time hundreds of birds fell out of the sky from alleged
trauma on New Year's Eve.

Today's THV reporter Lauren Clark talked to Science and Operations Officer Chris Buonanno
at the NWS who says that the speck on the picture is definitely not precipitation.
Object or energy field caught on National Weather Service radar abobe Beebe, Arkansas just after 10 pm
New Years Eve - Friday 31, Dec 2010. Copyright: US National Weather Service.
Boundaries graphic smoothed by CA.
"There are some indications that we're picking up a non-precipitation target. It has some
similarities to say, like a collection of birds."

The spot on the radar is estimated to be between 1,300 and 1,400 feet in the air and
Buonanno points out it doesn't move like a cloud or rainstorm would.

While speculations continue to pour in, officials in Wisconsin confirmed the cause of death of
the birds in Beebe was blunt force trauma.

National Weather Service:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lzk/
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NOTES:

Unusual above Beebe
just after 10.0 pm New
Years Eve, when
thousands of Redwing
Blackbirds fell from the
sky dead with internal
organs exploded. The
object on radar was
captured same time
and place and is
estimated 1,570 feet
above ground.