(See accounts for Benld, Bloomington, and Park Forest, for example.) None of the rocks associated with the stories below that I have had the chance to examine myself have been meteorites, however. Some of them describe real meteors and some of the rocks may be real meteorites. I am fascinated by the numerous stories that I have been sent about rocks someone found that “weren’t there yesterday.” (Sorry, this is a long page because I have received LOTS of these stories.) Common alternative stories are “We heard a thud on the roof at night and found this rock the next morning” and “I saw a fireball and found this stone where I saw it land.” All the quotations below were sent to me by real people.
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