--- title: Money, Dollar Bills Falls From Sky in Downtown Indianapolis description: Money literally fell from the sky in downtown Indianapolis on Tuesday, according to pedestrians in the area. canonical: https://time.com/4650521/money-falling-from-sky/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-26T18:39:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:29.941Z og:title: Money Was Falling From the Sky in This City og:description: Another way to make it rain og:url: https://time.com/4650521/money-falling-from-sky/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f1514d19455c6d5/6988b76a8e06011f21468f82/money-falls-from-sky-indianapolis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee Meeting og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Money Was Falling From the Sky in This City twitter:description: Another way to make it rain twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f1514d19455c6d5/6988b76a8e06011f21468f82/money-falls-from-sky-indianapolis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # It Actually Just Rained a Couple Hundred Dollars in This City > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 26, 2017 6:39 PM UTC  (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images) (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images) Philipp Schmidli—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 26, 2017 6:39 PM UTC Pedestrians in downtown Indianapolis experienced an [unexpected windfall](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808021,00.html) on Tuesday morning when [dollar bills](http://time.com/money/4621673/money-cash-currency-bacteria-disease-sickness/) began falling on them, seemingly from the sky. According to [_Fox 59_](http://fox59.com/2017/01/25/police-investigate-money-falling-from-the-sky-in-downtown-indianapolis/)_,_ bills already littered the sidewalk and street, but the cash continued to float down. A witness later called police and directed them towards the rooftop of a 10-story building where money could be seen flying off the roof. Police later reported that there were a couple hundred $1 bills on the roof, as well as five partial money wrappers with the words “Federal Reserve Bank,” four of which were dated Dec. 29 and one of which was dated Jan. 20. A Qdoba restaurant, located on the ground floor of the building, had reported a robbery on the night of Jan. 20; however, it’s not known whether or not the robbery can be connected to the cash found on the building’s roof. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4650521/money-falling-from-sky/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4650521/money-falling-from-sky/"},"headline":"It Actually Just Rained a Couple Hundred Dollars in This City","datePublished":"2017-01-26T18:39:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:29.941Z","description":"Another way to make it rain","url":"https://time.com/4650521/money-falling-from-sky/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Internet","viral","U.S.","Funny","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f1514d19455c6d5/6988b76a8e06011f21468f82/money-falls-from-sky-indianapolis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f1514d19455c6d5/6988b76a8e06011f21468f82/money-falls-from-sky-indianapolis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee Meeting","caption":"Extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee Meeting","creditText":"Philipp Schmidli—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4650521/money-falling-from-sky/","name":"It Actually Just Rained a Couple Hundred Dollars in This City"}}]}] ```