[meteorite-list] Oh, The Stories They Tell....

[Meteorites USA]

It's possible he's lying for the media attention.

But what about the little girl. Is she lying too? Or was she there?



JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
> There's a very simple explanation to this story:  the guy's lying!!!   
> How do I know?  Because they always lie!!  Why would you ever assume 
> even for a second that such an outlandish story is true?  I work at a 
> small Earth & Space Museum with a large collection of meteorites.  
> Every single story I've heard from people witnessing falls have been 
> bogus.  At least 10 people in the last year and a half have brought in 
> meteorwrongs that they swear up and down hit their house.  One was so 
> hot that it melted the vinyl siding!  (It was railroad rock.)  One hit 
> the house, went through the roof, bounced around inside awhile, then 
> smashed through the wall and landed outside in the yard. (It was 
> silicon.)  Others have hit houses narrowly missing the occupants. 
> (Slag, klinkers and more silicon).  3 or 4 people have been outside 
> and had to duck to avoid getting hit.  (Hematite and yet more slag.) 
> Several people have come in with stories of seeing very large 
> meteorites hit the ground, explode, form big craters, etc. Every one 
> of these I've checked out has been a meteorwrong.  Often people will 
> bring in non native minerals and swear they found them here in 
> Indiana, or saw them fall from the sky.  I just had a chunk of 
> antimony brought in that was supposedly found 30 feet underground!  My 
> favorite was an older lady that just finished watching a television 
> show about how meteorites are worth millions of dollars, when suddenly 
> she was startled by the sound of something hitting the side of her 
> house. You guessed it,  it was meteorites!   5 of them.  (One was 
> railroad rock, 3 pieces of slag, a chunk of asphalt, and a piece of 
> melted plastic.) Under questioning, not one relented, they all stuck 
> to their stories.  They seemed to really believe their stories.  It's 
> an interesting psychological phenomenon that meteorites (like sex) 
> seem to induce people to tell outrageous stories.
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