If rocks dont fall from the sky, then what the heck was the nine pound sulphide object that tore through a roof and hit this woman as she slept on her couch?
Paper: Bridgeport Telegram
City: Bridgeport, Connecticut
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1954Meteorite Tears Hole In Roof Of Alabama House, Woman Hurt
SYLACAUGA, Ala., Dec. 1 - (AP) A celestial disturbance seen in three states was identified yesterday as an exploding meteor which sent a nine-pound fragment crashing through a roof here and injured a 32-year-old woman.
Mrs. Hewlett Hodges received bruises when the meteorite tore a hole three feet wide in the roof over her living room, smashed a radio and struck her on an arm and hip.
The object was identified as a sulphide meteorite by George Swindle, field representative of the U. S. Geological Survey.
A "bright flash" across the sky followed by explosions was reported about 2 p.m. simultaneously in Atlanta, Newnan and Columbus, Ga., Sylacauga and Birmingham in Alabama, and as far away as Greenville, Miss.
Dr. Walter B. Jones, Alabama state geologist, said that evidently a meteor exploded over central Alabama and that Mrs. Hodges was hurt by a particle of it.
Swindle said the meteorite measured about six inches in diameter, and weighed approximately nine pounds.