For now, it appears the small crater that splayed debris across a 100-foot area wasn’t caused by a meteorite. Beyond that, it’s a mystery.
“It’s just really, really weird,” said Jerry Vinski, director of nearby Raritan Valley Community College’s planetarium, who conducted tests on the site. “We dug around and couldn’t find anything. We used metal detectors because all meteors have metal in them, and we couldn’t find anything, large or small.”
Bernards Township Police Capt. Edward Byrnes said whatever hit the front yard in the Basking Ridge section left a crater about 18 inches deep and roughly the size of a coffee table. Rocks and soil were scattered around the yard and driveway.
A State Police bomb squad ruled out explosives, Byrnes said.
According to Byrnes, no one in the neighborhood heard or saw anything at the time of the May 6 incident. The homeowner called police upon arriving home.
“The weather was clear, there were no reports of lightning strikes; nobody reported seeing anything,” Byrnes said. “I’ve never seen anything like this in 23 years.”
Vinski said that the hole could have been caused by an object falling from a plane. He said if the object was a meteorite, the impact would have been significant and would have been felt nearby.
“When you see meteor showers in the upper atmosphere, they’re traveling 50 miles a second,” he said. “Even if it’s slowing down through the atmosphere, you’re still going to have a sonic boom. And it would have left something behind, it wouldn’t have completely disintegrated.” - dailyrecord
NOTE: someone's got a helluva big mole roaming around. Looks to me like a black bear was in the neighborhood. Anyway...I enjoyed some of the comments attached to this story:
"Officials and experts in one New Jersey town are scratching their heads over ________________" Just fill in the blank. Doesn't matter whether it's a mysterious hole that's appeared in someone's backyard, or balancing the budget. Officials and experts in MOST New Jersey towns are clueless over most things. I can actually see them at the site, scratching their head with one hand, while the other is holding a Starbuck's Mocha Latte.
"Anchor that was not removed by departing UFO"
This is my neighbor's property. He's been saying for years that he wanted to plant an apple tree there, all of the neighbors did not like the idea (including myself). We felt it would only attract more deer to the neighborhood, so we asked him not to do it. Then the other night, after a few beers, I caught him out there digging like a maniac in the dark, throwing dirt everywhere while mumbling "They can't tell me what to do!". When I confronted him, he ran off into his back yard. What a mess. ....Lon
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