I am wondering what AA would think of this story.
Is this part of his "presence of high density of magnetically polarized plasma in the galactic plane which we are now entering" ?
Is this stuff getting in through the breaches in the magnetosphere?
Kerala's location is of note.


*Morning shower paints rural Kannur red
TNN Jun 29, 2012, 02.02AM IST

KANNUR: Though not for first time in the state, red rain in parts of Kannur on Thursday did create some panic and curiosity among the residents in the district. The strange phenomenon happened around 6:50am and lasted for 15 minutes. People in the 1km area in and around Edachery in Puzhati panchayat panicked as their courtyards turned blood red after rain.

[link to articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com]


*Numerous research groups got to work analyzing the red rain, trying to determine the cause of the discoloration. It was determined that the rain contained around 90% solid red particles, composed primarily of carbon and oxygen, and to a lesser extent hydrogen, nitrogen, silicon, chlorine, and various metals. The water samples were then brought to the Centre for Earth Science Studies(CESS), where further studies were conducted. After filtering out the particles, the water component of the rain was found to be normal, except for the fact that there were no dissolved salts present.

J Thomas Brenna at Cornell University also explored the particles discovered in the rain and determined that, since they collapsed when dried, they were filled with liquid. Within the particles seven amino acids were identified: phenylalanine, glutamic acid/glutamine, serine, aspartic acid, threonine, and arginine, and thus the particles were of marine or terrestrial plant origin. Well, all of that is delightful, but where did the red particles come from? It is this question that has yet to be given a definitive answer.

[link to www.environmentalgraffiti.com]


*The cu­ri­ous events be­gan on July 25, 2001, when res­i­dents of Ker­a­la, a re­gion in south­west­ern In­dia, started see­ing scar­let rain in some ar­eas. It per­sisted on-and-off for some weeks, even two months. Sci­en­tists could­n’t iden­ti­fy the cell-like specks that gave the wa­ter its scar­let hue. Specula­t­ion of pos­si­ble ex­tra­ter­res­tri­al ori­gins be­gan.

Two In­di­an sci­en­tists lat­er pub­lished a chem­i­cal and bi­o­log­i­cal anal­y­sis sug­gest­ing, they said, that the specks might in­deed be lit­tle aliens. They “have much si­m­i­lar­ity with bi­o­log­i­cal cells” but with­out DNA, wrote the re­search­ers, God­frey Lou­is and A. San­thosh Ku­mar of In­di­a’s Ma­hat­ma Gan­dhi Un­ivers­ity. “Are these cell-like par­t­i­cles a kind of al­ter­nate life from space?”

[link to www.world-science.net]