Observers in Talladega County that day reported seeing a fireball in the sky and hearing an explosion.
This 2004 file photo shows Rosa Hall of the Alabama Museum of Natural History holding the meteorite that struck Ann Hodges in her home near Sylacauga on Nov. 30, 1954. An Alabama woman made history 70 years ago Saturday when she survived a close encounter with a piece of falling space debris.
Observers in Talladega County that day reported seeing a fireball in the sky and hearing an explosion, according to the. The city’s police chief and mayor were summoned to Hodges’ house, where they took possession of the space rock. The object was turned over to the Air Force and then the Smithsonian Institution before returning to Alabama, where it was the subject of a legal struggle between Ann and Hewlett Hodges -- her spouse -- and their landlord over who owned it.
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