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A remote community in the Australian outback was shocked over the weekend when small, live fish began falling from the heavens, the New York Post reported.

Locals in Lajamanu, on the northern edge of the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory, said the scaly phenomenon occurred during a heavy rainstorm.

“We’ve seen a big storm heading up to my community and we thought it was just rain,” Central Desert councilor Andrew Johnson Japanangka told ABC News.

“But when the rain started falling we’ve seen fish falling down as well.”

Japanangka said the fish were still alive as they fell, and were about “the size of two fingers.”

“Some are still hanging around in the community in a puddle of water,” he told the outlet.

“Children are picking them up and keeping them in a bottle or a jar.”

Incredible, this wasn’t the first time Lajamanu experienced a seafood shower, either. The bizarre event has been periodically reported as far back as 1974, according to ABC News.

“I got up in the morning, I was working in the school at the time, and the dirt streets outside my home were covered in fish,” Penny McDonald recalled of a time fish rained from the sky above the community in the mid-1980s.

“They were small fish and there were a lot of them around. It was just amazing.”

In 2020, a similar event also took place in Yowah, Queensland.