study the inside of the moon from crust to core. for the second year in a row, a small arkansas town has ushered in the new year in eerie fashion. before the stroke of midnight, the streets were littered with dead blackbirds that mysteriously rained down from above. matt johnson reports from beebe, arkansas. >> birds were brought down, you know, by fireworks this year. i didn't believe it, but now i do. >> reporter: charles moore never thought he would see the sequel to what he considered the greatest unsolved mystery of 2011. >> this morning when i came out, i had dead birds. mostly red-winged blackbirds. what a surprise. >> reporter: for the birds that plummeted to their deaths a year ago, happening again in 2012. >> we had this thing, the birds leaving their roost and falling out of the air.