Mysterious Catfish Falls From The Sky, Hits Woman In The Face

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s... a fish? 

A Philadelphia woman says she was knocked to the ground when a 5-pound catfish fell from the sky and struck her in the face.

Lisa Lobree was on her way to a Labor Day exercise class near the Philadelphia Museum of Art when she was suddenly “slammed by something,” Lobree told the Philadelphia Enquirer.

“I was like, ‘What!?’ I was freaking out,” she recalled.

Several news outlets suggested that the 16-inch catfish fell from the grasp of a bird flying in the sky above.

Lobree suffered a small cut under her left eye and some swelling from the flying fish.

She was also hit with a distinct odor.

“I smelled so bad afterwards,” she told CBS Philadelphia. “I smelled disgusting.”

Of course, nobody wants to be smacked in the face by a fish falling form the sky, but Lobree is at least making the best of it.

“It could have been so much worse,” she told the Inquirer. “What if it hit a child? It was a not a fun experience, but there are so many worse things that could’ve happened. It’s probably one of the strangest things that have happened to me in my life.”