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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Eric Wichman
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