Scientists around the world study Local News 8 video of geese falling from sky

Local News 8 video of the geese falling from the sky during last weekend’s lightning storm is getting national attention.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration contacted our Local News 8 ‘ s Linda Larsen who witnessed what happened and shot the video, as they try to learn more about the bizzare event.

Larsen was outside Saturday during that horrific lightning storm. She witnessed the birds dropping out of the sky. Some 112 birds in total bit the dust.

This event is so uncommon, today John jensenius from the NOAA headquarters in Maine called Larsen to interview her about it.

Jensenius is a specialist on lightning safety and serves as a national spokesperson for the organization on issues related to lightning safety. NOAA is most interested in the fact this phenomena happened in a cloud to cloud lightning scenerio.

Larsen is also going to be interviewed by other specialists about our strange weather event. She is now included in a lightning study NOAA email group.