Paper: The Gettysburg Times City: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1982 Page: 3 (of 20)
Meteorite crashes through house
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) - An object believed to be a meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in this Hartford suburb Monday evening, but occupants of the house escaped injury, police reported.
The rock was "slightly bigger than a softball," said police officer Alan Powers, who added that he believed ti was a meteorite.
It landed first in the living room of the single family home owned by Robert Donahue on Church Street and then "bounced into the living room," Powers said.
Donahue and his wife were home at the time but were in another room watching television when the object smashed through the roof.
Powers said his department had received numerous phone calls from residents who reported they had seen "bright lights and then heard an explosion" - phenomena associated with meteors rushing through the atmosphere.
The rock was taken to the police station and authorities said they would investigate it further Tuesday to try to determine its origin.
Donahue could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press on Monday night; telephone calls to his home went unanswered, and he refused to talk on camera with a Hartford television station.
Meteors - some huge fireballs, others tiny specks - bombard Earth's atmosphere at the rate of one million an hour; only about 150 meteors a year survive the trip through the atmosphere and hit the surface of the Earth. Those that make it are called meteorites.
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