Ironically, meteors themselves used to be in this category until at least the late 18th Century. The scientific wisdom went, "There are no stones in the sky, therefore no stones can fall from the sky."
For big fun mocking this sort of thinking by throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, into the mix, track down the books of Charles Fort.
Ironically, meteors themselves used to be in this category until at least the late 18th Century. The scientific wisdom went, "There are no stones in the sky, therefore no stones can fall from the sky."I wholeheartedly agree, and would add "until at least the early 21st century". The belief that stones didn't fall out of the sky, that they were instead carried by the winds from elsewhere, dates back at least as far as Aristotle, and may have originated with him.