Not sure how I ran across this, but it seems to be an interesting theory. It was hosted on a Cornell server.
The links below are for the PDF of this document. If you are interested in reading the entire document, but can't open a PDF, email me and I will email you this article as a Word Document. I have no idea of the scientific accuracy, but the only implausible part (the me at least) is why didn't the debris disperse in the atmosphere over the two month period? Gary Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala Godfrey Louis & A. Santhosh Kumar School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam - 686560, Kerala, India. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 5, 2003 Red coloured rain occurred in many places of Kerala in India during July to September 2001 due to the mixing of huge quantity of microscopic red cells in the rainwater. Considering its correlation with a meteor airbust event, this phenomenon raised an extraordinary question whether the cells are extraterrestrial. Here we show how the observed features of the red rain phenomenon can be explained by considering the fragmentation and atmospheric disintegration of a fragile cometary body that presumably contains a dense collection of red cells. Slow settling of cells in the stratosphere explains the continuation of the phenomenon for two months. The red cells under study appear to be the resting spores of an extremophilic microorganism. Possible presence of these cells in the interstellar clouds is speculated from its similarity in UV http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0310/0310120.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/2sxuh
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