[meteorite-list] Mysterious Object , Story from local paper 5-28-06

From: wahlperry_at_aol.com <wahlperry_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun May 28 21:46:49 2006
Message-ID: <8C8509F1F2BDFB0-1714-64F8_at_MBLK-M35.sysops.aol.com>

Hi ,

Check this story out.

Sonny




A story last week about a mysterious object that fell through a medical
center's skylight and embedded itself in a wall 18 feet above ground,
prompted readers to call and write with explanations. George Gayner
suggested a huge catapult was used to launch the rock from about 200
feet away from the target. "People are building these things and
testing them, matter a fact I have a model one on my desk," he said.
Another reader, from North Carolina, wrote that the rock was a
"thunderstone." "Numerous cases exist where the stone has actually been
seen to fall and impact the ground or a tree, frequently during a
thunderstorm," Mike Price wrote. "You have reported on a genuine 'rock
fall' object there, a Fortean object and it should be very carefully
studied and preserved."

The object turned out to be nothing more than asphalt.

K.C. HOWARD
Received on Sun 28 May 2006 02:53:19 PM PDT