Ok, remember the meteor showers last weekend? Well, I walked into my pole building and noticed a new LED light before I turned anything on.

I am like great, someone shot a hole through my roof. I get a ladder to see the angle it took going through the metal. Um, straight down with even tear tabs on the metal all around the hole. The size of a dime.

Then two and a half feet below the hole where romex for my lights was running along the truss the meteorite grazed it and ripped/burnt the insulation off but missed the conductors.

Then it must have bounced off the concrete and went wherever in my building. Crazy

Glad it wasn't through my truck.

I'd find that, maybe it was a bolt out of an airplane. Some of the meteorites are worth something if you got a buyer.

They are usually iron/ metalic and it must have been really going fast the way it burnt the romex insulation. Maybe like a half inch ball bearing size. My building is full of equipment and that thing could have bounced and rolled out of site.

id get a metal detector and go looking for that thing

Keep it fresh in you memory, it may turn up well into the future.
Very cool !

Saw an interesting post regarding bullets shot straight up (or nearly) and how many folks are injured/killed each year from them.
Could have come from a loooong way off.

Magnet

I have seen a lot of bullet holes in metal, this would have been 50 cal size, seemed like it was going way too fast for a bullet falling straight down. Maybe it will show up when I am moving equipment around.

My cousin was shot with what they think was a 5.56 while putting a new roof on the lake house he was bent over it hit him between his neck and shoulder. He thought a piece of his hammer broke off or something. It bleed like crazy. In the error they keep asking him what happend over and over. It was not until they taped something with different projectials on his back and did x rays dud he figure out he had been shot. They left it becus it was close to an artery and his spine they Said. Turned out it was guys shooting down the road.

Its in there somewhere.
It'll turn up eventually, if you keep after it.
Something else in there might have a hole in it too.
Check your dustpan every time you sweep up.
Use a vacuum and you might miss it.

Cool story, happy no one was hurt.
Cheers

I belonged to a bench rest club that would let the local cops shoot to qualify and practice, and NOBODY could understand just how rounds from the range would hit in a junk yard , a good mile away, ACROSS THE MO RIVER AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE RANGE????? Turns out those bungholes were playing around shooting clay birds (trying) with their pistols.

Search the building with a Geiger Counter & Metal Detector.

It might give off a radiation signature in addition to being Iron/metallic !!!

Well that's something you don't hear about very often...hope you find it...

Crowfoot was right, I was wrong. It was a .45cal FMJ bullet.

I highly doubt it was a meteorite. It's very rare for that to happen. Usually something like this turns out to be iron slag. We astronomy nuts hear this all the time.

Darn it!
Was gonna suggest selling it to the college for two hundred bucks!

Way back in the early 80s a local small lake had an explosion and the local police thought someone was playing around with Dynamite but after the U of M got involved turned out it was a meteorite about the size of a BB, but it put a hole in the ice bigger then a two car garage and threw chunks of ice and water for hundreds of feet, so I don’t know what one hitting a building would do but I think a lot more then just a small hole as it’s moving at a velocity way faster then a stray or falling bullet

See the post by the OP directly above yours.

Flippah...you be careful on that ladder...don't you have a birthday this month ??

Did I miss it ???

Just got my free permanent trapping license yesterday... compliments

Of NH F&G..turning 68 is great !!! ..lol

Free permanent Clamming / oyster license too

7.00 hunting fishing combo too

You are a month my elder, and much wiser for sure!!
I am a month behind you for the big 68, act 12!