1,000 Birds Fall from Arkansas Sky in Hitchcockian Scene

It has residents creeped out. Something out of a movie and Hazmat people are walking around not telling us anything, said one.

I'd like to know. Kind of spooky, you never know what's going to happen, said another.

Scientists are puzzled, but they don't suspect any Hitchcockian paranormal activity.

As many as 2,000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before New Year's, according to a local news report. A scientist said the birds might have been stuck by lightning or hit with a hailstorm, or maybe they're the victims of overzealous New Year's even revelers.

It all started around 11:30 pm local time, just a half hour before the new year, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Beginning at around 11:30 p.m., enforcement officers with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) began getting reports of dead black birds falling from the sky in the city limits of Beebe, the agency said in a statement.

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