On this Wednesday afternoon, a meteorite crossed the sky of the Canary Islandspossibly falling in the north of the islands and caused this object was noted throughout the island of Gran Canariaand even in Tenerife, La Gomera Y The Palm the presence of a ray of green and red light that crossed the sky was reported and, on the other, a trail of smoke towards Gran Canaria.
This phenomenon occurred just 68 years after the only person to have been struck by a meteorite. “Coincidences of life,” said the IGN volcanologist, Stavros Meletlidiswho has recalled that this anecdotal event has coincided with this unique event.
As he joked “if some put that together, the signs in Hawaii and what happened in Gran Canaria and make a conspiracy movie that sweeps the Oscars“.
For this we must go back to 1954 and its protagonist, Ann Hodges, from Alabama (United States) survived. This woman was lucky that the meteorite in question did not land directly on her, but bounced off a radio set first. All this after going through the roof of her house.
He was taking a nap
Ann was taking a nap on the couch at home when he felt a very big blow on the hip. After waking up in pain and calling her mother, who was at home at the time, they both saw that the roof of the house was broken. In addition, the radio set was destroyed. They soon realized that the source of the impact was a black rock, about the size of a melon, that was resting near the place where she had been sleeping moments before.
He did not seek medical help, as he only had pain and an incipient bruise that ended up turning into a huge bruise. But he did bring what happened to the attention of the authorities. Your neighbors in the town of sylacauga they had already warned of the observation of a red fireball in the sky. in full Cold War, it was feared that it could be a Soviet attack, so the rock was confiscated for inspection. In addition, such a media commotion was generated in his house that he ended up going to the hospital, more than because of pain, to get away from the crowd.
Fear of the Soviet Union
Due to the existence of the Cold Warthe authorities of the US Air Force. The possibility of an attack carried out by the Soviet Union. Even so, a new dilemma opened up. Who did this precious treasure belong to? Ann Hodges began a hard battle to get hold of him. The problem is that said rock fell on the property of Birdie Guyas Ann Hodges and her husband did not own the home.
Mrs. Guy won the trial, but the married couple in this story acquired ownership of it by paying $500. After a couple of years without receiving offers, the couple decided to donate the piece to the Alabama Museum of Natural History, where it is still on display. Who was going to say that the meteorite that hit a person and did not kill them instantly was going to end with this sad ending? At least, taking a quick look at the story, everything was left in an anecdote in which, without a doubt, a movie could come out of it.
The other fragment fell in the neighbor’s house
He had better luck Ann’s neighbor, in whose orchard the other half of the meteorite fell, which had split in two after crossing the earth’s atmosphere. Meanwhile, the woman began to have anxiety problems, in the course of which her divorce also occurred. He died in 1972, at the age of 52, due to kidney failure..
