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Chapter v

OUT OF THE SKY: METEORS AND FIREBALLS

About one o'clock in the afternoon on November 30, 1954, a spec-
tacular meteor flared across the southeastern part of the United
States and exploded. Many persons in Alabama, Georgia, and Mis-
sissippi saw the bright flash high in the sky, followed by a trail of
smoke, and heard three violent detonations. Over the town of
Svlacauga, Alabama, a nine-pound fragment of the falling meteoric
body crashed through the roof of a house, bruised the left arm and
hip of the unlucky resident, and came to rest on the floor. Members
of the American Meteoritics Society collected detailed descriptions
of the event from many witnesses and added this daylight fireball
to the official list of observed meteorite falls from which meteorites
are recovered [1, p. 128].

UFO addicts, however, apparently regarded both the meteor and
its fragments as unnatural phenomena, and a leading exponent of
the saucer theory characterized the bright flash as “mysterious,” the

explosions as both “strange” and “mysterious,” the nine-pound frag-
ment as a “shining black object” that was “labeled” a meteorite,
and the entire incident as “a queer business” [2, p. 231]:

To the astronomer who specializes in the study of meteors the
only “queer” aspect of the episode is that saucer publications list
so few mysterious UFOs for that particular week when similar spec-
tacular fireballs were almost a commonplace in the southeast states.
On November 29 a meteor flew over Alabama at 5:30 P.M., and
about two hours later another with a long tail soared over Florida.
On November 30 at 5:00 P.M., a few hours after the fall at Sylacauga,
another bright fireball Hashed over Alabama. Shortly before mid-
night the same night a meteor famed over North Carolina, so bril-
liant that its copper-green light illuminated the interior of cars on
the highway; blue-green fire shot out above the treetops, changed
to magnesium white, and then slowly faded. Detailed observations
of all these appeared in the scientific journal Meteoritics [1, p. 128].

THE DAYTON

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Bilas. | Holi ae : meee - : | land her husband said they planned | she ran outside after regaining her
~ _—— to demand that the Air Force re- |compoaure and saw, about a cia
: ‘ rn the stone-like object to them!up, ‘‘a kind of boiling smoke.’
RI, as a souvenir. | Editor James E. Mills of the
3

She said she was lying on her Scripps-lHoward Birmingham Post-:
sofa when she heard the explosion Herald saw the phenomenon south-

that was plainly visible to personS,east of Birmingham.
Ns ‘om Atlanta to Greenville, Miss. | “It looked something like a she!

ew ater. she said, the .
he f seconds | | burst but gave off white smoke

ae meteorite came tearing through tne, et : “3
p32 | met of her home. | Then it trailed off in a spiral 10%
- aaates pene who was later | feet below’ and -was visible fo

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METEORITE STRUCK MRS. HEWLETT HODGES »

Chief Asheraft Holds Evidence; Mayor Howard, right.—AP.

"ELL THROUGH ROOF

Woman Demands A. F.

Return Fallen Meteorite | |

3 “vLACAUGA, Ala., Dee’ 1. < exnloainn visible in three states,.
°)—Mrs. Hulett Hodges, the! A helicopter crew from Maxwell
+ Known person ever struck by | Air Force base, Ala., flew to Mrs.
‘ailing meteorite, demanded to- | Hodges” home to examine the ob-
that the Air Force return the! ject and the Air Force said it would
» that ripped into her home and |be taken to Air Force laboratories
cred her. in Washington.
meteorite, six or - eight Sylacauga Mayor Ed J. bial
‘es in diameter, fell through! ard, apparently unaware of the
* roof leaving a three-foot hole, Air Force’s plans, said the nine-
. struck her on the hip and hand, pound object would be placed in
‘erday afternoon. She was only! the state museum of natural his-

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RnGy injured, however, by the! tory at the University of Ala '\ stterson have promised the*
f thay may have been one of; bama in Tuscaloosa. ~ ~ izes they will get their

-v that fell from a 40-mile high} But the sa-year-old Mrs. ‘Hodgés meteorite back — in ‘several
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‘Meteorite

The star that fell om Alabama
—a meteorite that clobbered into
a living room and struck a house-
wife—was slated to arrive at
Wright-Patterson Air Force base
Friday afternoon for study.

Air Technical Intelligence cen-
ter officials will examine the
nine-pound rock before return-
ing it to its star-struck owner,
Mrs. Hewlett Hodges of Syla-
cauga, Ala.

Mrs. Hodges was lying on a
soft in her home Tuesday when
the stone crashed through her
roof, bruising her hip and hand.
Thus she became the only human
ever known to be struck by a
meteorite. -

The Hodges, who have obtained
an attorney to make sure they
get their rock back, said Friday
they plan to sell it to the highest
bidder and hope to get more than
$5000.

A Muncie, Ind., munitions fac-
tory, the Smithsonian institution
and the Alabama state museum
are reported all interested in the
object.

And ATIC officials at Wright-

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i Weteorite Right Through the Roof

‘ies. Hewlett Hodges (center! was bruised Tuesday when
struck b¥ a meteormte which crashed through the roof of
1ee Sylacauga, \la., home. Mrs. Hodges is standing beneath
the bole tn the roof. Right, holding meteorite fragment, is

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Coming In

Bids on the nine-pound meteorite
that plummeted into an Alabama

living room four days ago and
struck a housewife, were filving
thick and fast Saturday
jut the meteorite itself was ap
parently flying low and slow—
courtesy of the UU, 5S. Air Force
Officials at Wright-Patterson Air
Force hase said the rock—oricina!.
ly slated to arrive here for analy.
sis Friday afternoon wasn't in yer.
But they “presume it’s en route.’*!
n |
Air Technical Inteliigence center!
Specialists will study the meteorite!
before returning it to its owners.
Mr. and Mrs. Hewlett Hodges of}
Sylacauga, Ala.
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MEANWHILE, Hodges renorted)
receiving at least 75 bids for the
object including one from the
evansville tind.) public museum
said to be “in excess of $3000 "* Tr
“will so, he said, to the highest

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irs, Hodes, who wags atruck on
tne hip and hand by the stone when
‘ plunged into her home Tuesday
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leteorite Right Through the Roof,

*. Hewlett Hodges (center) was bruised Tuesday when

rick by a meteorite which crashed through the roof of

: $ylacauga, Ala., home. Mrs. Hodges is standing beneath
hole in the roof. Right, holding meteorite fragment, is |

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Meteorite
Bids Are

C oming In

Bids on the nine-pound meteorite,
that plummeted into an Alabama!
living room four days ago and!
Struck a housewife, were flying |
thick and fast Saturday,

But the meteorite itself was ap-.
parently flying low and slow—
courtesy of the U. S. Air Force.

Officials at Wright-Patterson Air
Force base said the rock—orizinal
ly slated to arrive here for analy-
Sis Friday afternoon wasn't in yet.
But they “presume it’s en route.’’
Air Technical Inteliigence center
Specialists will study the meteorite
ibefore returning it to its owners,
Mr. and Mrs. Hewlett Hodges of
Sylacauga, Ala.

* > *

MEANWHILE, Hodges reported
receiving at least 75 bids for the
Object including one from the |
F.vansville (Ind.) Public museum}
Said to be “in excess of $5000.’’ It}
will go, he said, to the highest jj
bidder,

Mrs. Hodges, who was struck on
the hip and hand by the stone when)
it plunged into her home Tuesday,|
is confined to a Sylacauga nerve

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recovering from bruises. and nerv-
or ™ strain yd Cem 4 Pace

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SYLACAUGA, Ala. Dec. 3.—
2 owners ofthe only meteor-
‘e known to have.struck a
uman said today they plan to

| the object “to the highest
cdcer”’ and hope to get more
tan $5,000.

-- and Mrs. Hewlett Hodges

acvememt meEressy artival at Latruare-
WT. +$ ell 2/ 3/ yt one is their daughter, Melinda,

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There's Gald in That Thar Meteorite

to keep the meteorite from its;Patterson Air Force Base, Day:}
rightful owners. ton, Ohio.

Mrs. Hodges was on a sofa} <A colonel from Wright-Patter-
Tuesday when the ninepound-/son also telephoned Mr. Hodges
rock came crashing through her|and assured him the meteorite
roof. The meteorite  badly|would be returned, But he
bruised her. She entered a hos-|couldn't say when.
pital because of insomnia, she} A Muncie. Ind. munitions
said. factory, the Smithsonian Insti-

The Air Force: n now has thejfution in Washington and the
stone and sent a message to!state museum of natural history

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The Meteorite.
That Hit Her

Washington, Dee. 9 (U.P).—Mre.
ewlett Hodges got her meteorite
k today. The Air Poree form-.
ly returned to the 32-year-old }
ylaeauga, Ala., housewife the 10- |

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Mr. Hodges last night saying itt
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Alabama’s Star Now

Closer To

The Daily News Bian.

Hl4 Albee Bidg
_ WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.,— The!
nine-pound, “‘transient’’ meteorite!

Was on the next-to-the-last leg ‘of:

ts travels which started when it)

tell from the skies 10 days ago and
|bopped an Alabama housewife on)
ithe arm while she was resting.
| Democratic Rep. Kenneth A.
Roberts of Alabama said Huel M.
|Love, an attorney from Talladaga,
Ala., obtained the meteorite for
Irs. Hulet Hodges, Salacauga,
Ala., housewife, in a ceremony in
‘his office yesterday.

Rep. Roberts said the
Force turned over the stone to
Love, who represented § Mrs.

liodges, after he had arranged
, for its return a week ago. The
meteor had been under study at
, the Air Technical Intelligence
|) center at Wright-Patterson Air
| Force base in Dayton.

Maj. Gen. Joe W. Kelly, director
of Air Force liaison on Capitol Hill,
handed it over'to attorney Love.
He said the Air Force had taken}
possession of it last week as part

| its responsibility for “everything
hat falls from the skies.’ |
| Love said Mrs. Hodges plans to

i] the meteor to the highest

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ites i ' have been received, ranging
vom $2 to $20,000. - sy

Housewite

Next week, Love added, the stone
“Iwill be turned over to the Smith-
/sonian institution for a thorough
scientific analysis. A few days ago
the Smithsonian told The Daily
News bureau it would not cet into a
bidding war for the object.

The national museum sugzested
Mrs. Hodges accept an offer of
$5000 for the meteor ‘with a kiss,”
if she could get it. That came
from Siegfried Weng. director of
the Evansville, Ind. museum and a
former Daytgnian.

are among. those interested in
purchasing the object.

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und meteorite that crashed!

rough the reof of her home Nov. }
30 and struck her on the arm and?!

hip.
pitaized. |

Mrs. Hodzes is hos

Her attorney, Huel M. Love of
Ala., wuccepted the stone

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from Maj. Gen. Joe W. Keily in
the office of Rep. Kenneth A. Rob-
ferts (D-Alz.)} snd said it would be
sold to the highest bidder.

$22,800 Offer
Love said the Hodges have re-
ceived “fantastic offers” for the
meteorite, ranging up to 320,000.
He said he would turm the stone

over to the Smithsonian Institution
for a thorough seientific aes
before it is

E. P. Henderson, associate
Smithsonian: evrater, said the me-
teorite was the “first witnessed
tail thas ever. strvek a human be-
fing.” It smashed through the roof
of the Hedges’ home and struck
Mrs. Hodges as she lay on a couch.

Kelly said the Air Force took
temporary possession of the stone
as part of its ,respomsibility for
Pode obec that fails from the

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when ‘Jonh: ‘Donne wrote “Go wand
catch a falling star” he thought he was
‘creating an Amage of impossibility. But.
a Mrs. Hulett Hodges of Sylacauga, Alz.,
fwho perhaps doesn't redd John Donne
(few people do, these days), very nearly
ught a falling star. Rather, it .very
early caught her. She was struck on the
chip and hand by a meteorite tha; ripped
‘ongh the roof of her home while she
“was taking a nap. It was only a nine-
“pound meteorite, «n astral :fragment
ch the skies will never miss, But to”

nal evidence that stars once really fell
von Alabama. “4

. Now they want to take it away Hh tag
her. “They” means the Air Force and the
‘State: Museum of. Natural History. The
“Air Force has taken possession of the
“meteorite Pom dt will be penta!
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‘Washington for scientific ‘research. The
museum, located in Tuscaloosa, says it
wants the.meteorite for display purposes.

» Mrs. Hodges, who obviously is*a forth-

“Mrs. Hodges, it is her meteorite, her per- .

obs edt natcige, “A “a apatcts bene i

right woman, says she wants the meteor-
ite neither. for display nor for research.
She merely wants to preserve it, in the
good old American fashion, as a souvenir
to talk about when folks drop in.
” Science, of course, must be served, and
perhaps some kind of a compromise can
be worked out whereby the Air Force can
conduct its experiments'and return the
meteorite forthwith té Mrs: Hodges. In
her turn, she might be willing to lend it
. to the museum ‘occasionally, say on Bl-
_ternate’ ‘Sundays. But it might well pe
‘made the law of:the land: any meteorite.

falling on “any person shall belong to

Said person. Let others .go- and catch

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* Daily News Staff Writer

When ‘‘Mrs. Hodges’ meteorite’
leaves Dayton's Wright - Patterson
Air Force base, it may continue
under the Dayton influence.

For if Siegried Weng, former
Davtonian, has his way, “‘the star
that fell on Alabama’’ will wind
up_in his custody at the Evans-
ville, Ind., Museum .of Arts and
Sciences.

- Weng. director of the Ev. ansville
institution, says museum officials
are “‘up in the clouds’ over the

, prospect of acquiring the meteorite
that fell on the fi Naat Ala.,
housewife.

_iMrs. Hewlett Hodges was wine
‘on @ sofa in her living. room when
the nine-pound meteroite made her
see stars last week. Mrs. Hodges,
whose hip and hand were bruised
by the blow, is believed to be the
only person who was ever hit by
a meteorite and survived.

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FOR 20 YEARS director of the
Dayton Art Institute, Weng said
Tuesday in a telephone conversa-
tion that the Indiana museum's
bid of $5000 for the meteorite
still tops the list of nearly 100
offers. An attorney for Mrs.
Hodges also indicated she was par-
ticularly interested in seeing the
Evansville museum get the meteor.

Dick Cull Jr., writing for The
Daily News bureau in Washington,
Monday revealed that the Smith-
sonian museum would like to have
the heavenly rock. But curators
there admit they aren't wiles. to

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"Ex: Daytonian Seeks
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Jpay more than $100 a pound or 2
total of $900 for the meteor.

If the owner—Mrs. Hodges—can
get a higher price, she'd betier
take it “with a kiss,’’ said a
spokesman for the Smithsonien’s
division of minerology and pe-
trology. The larger the meteor.
the lower the value, he added.!
However, the Smithsonian has |
offered free appraisa] of the
meteor.

The rock was délivered Monday’!
to Wright-Patterson Air Force bese!
where it is being studied by Air!,
Technical ee geet -center of-
ficials.

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WENG SAID the meteor is of
scientific interest for two reasons.

“First, many have been hit by)
meteors before but: Mrs. Hodges
is the first to survive. —

“Second, the rock may ‘sub

Stantiate the theory that the core
of meteors is very cold.”
’ When R. Malcolm Koch, presi-
dent of the Evansville museum
and an astronomer by avocation,
talked to Mrs. Hodges she wes
astonished when he asked ‘her if
the meteor had been cold.

Mrs. Hodges told Koch the rock
had been too cold to handle, ac-
cording to Weng. .

Acquisition of the meteor should
make the Evansville museum a na-
tional shrine, Weng is convinced.

The museum, which hes an all-
public planetarium, one of two in
Indiana, is now raising funds for
new quarters. Weng said the
drive has thus far brought in
$459,000 against a needed $600,000,.

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CBSERVED WITS VARYING DEGREES OF PROMINENCE PRCA 24 NOVEMBER TO 7 DECEMBER. IT
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WISHED APPROXIAATELY EIGHT (S) POUNDS, EIG@IT (3) cuNers.

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METEORITE WHICH CRASHED THRU Sse IN SYLACAUGA, ALABAMA ON
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WEICHED APPROXIMATELY EIGHT (&) POUNDS, EIGHT (5) OUNCES.

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