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

[wahlperry at 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