The Sylacauga meteorite

On a November afternoon in 1954 a nine-pound stone from space crashed through the roof of a house in Sylacauga, bounced off a radio, and struck Ann Hodges as she napped on her couch, bruising her hip badly. She is the only human being in recorded history confirmed to have been hit by a meteorite. The rock and the story are real; the meteorite went to a museum, and the town has never forgotten the day the sky fell on it.