ANOMALOUS METEORITE FALLS ON STELOPOLIS
"This fella certainly paid me enough to keep this thing quiet."---Jim Lumley.
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Iowa: A messenger from celestial space fell on Jim Lumley's garage on July 18th. Mr. Lumley was on his back porch enjoying a cold alcoholic beverage and a sandwich when he saw a bright luminous body in the heavens. It was moving very fast and in an easterly direction. It was visible for at least five seconds and then broke into particles. A short time later he heard a heavy explosion which jarred the earth. He claimed the air was filled with a sulfurous odor. He rushed to his garage where he found the roof had been smashed to bits by a large stone object which had driven itself through the concrete floor into the ground beneath it.
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"This fella certainly paid me enough to keep this thing quiet."---Jim Lumley. |
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Police and fire fighters who quickly arrived on the scene, examined the stone and found that it had been partially carved with curious hieroglyphics. As we understand it, the stone, the garage, and the entire property was purchased by a private collector in Hopkins Grove. Beyond what is printed here, Mr. Lumley tells us that the purchaser of his stone requested he not give further publicity to the "event" and is going to comply with those wishes. In his only statement to the press, Lumley said with a smile, "Everybody has a right to privacy, and some like it more than others. This fellah certainly paid me enough to keep things quiet. I 'spect he don't want nobody to come along and steal it from him."
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