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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs: Kentucky marks the day meat fell from the sky

NPR | By Cheri Lawson
Published March 15, 2026 at 6:09 AM MDT

In rural Kentucky, people recently celebrated the meat shower of 1876. That's when mysterious pieces of meat fell from the sky onto a farm, sparking all kinds of theories.

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Cheri Lawson