Mysterious Space Rock That Crashed Into Home Has Family Dreaming Of Winning The Lottery
The Hopewell Township Police Department issued a press release about the incident on Facebook, stating it has reached out to "other agencies for assistance in positively identifying the object and safeguarding the residents and the object."
Chief of the Hopewell Township Police Department, James Rosso, told Insider, "I have seen quite a few interesting and strange happenings in my career, but I would never have thought a meteorite would be one of them."
A local fire department's hazmat team was called in to make sure the likely meteorite was not hazardous. They also checked to make sure the family was clear of any possible radioactive effects from the strange rock.
Suzy Kop, a resident of the home, told reporters that the object came through the roof and ceiling, ricocheted off her father's bedroom floor hitting the ceiling, before finally coming to rest on the floor below. She added that the object was still warm when it was found.
Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer at the Franklin Institute, told CBS Philadelphia that the uninvited guest could be billions of years old. "It's been running around in space all that time and now it's come to Earth and fell in their laps," he added. "For it to actually strike a house, for people to be able to pick it up, that's really unusual and has happened very few times in history."
The family is now considering buying a lottery ticket after the suspected space rock crashed into their home, according to CBS. One might say their odds of winning are astronomically in their favor.
