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

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:57:06 -0700
Message-ID: <49D86452.2040409_at_meteoritesusa.com>

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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