Residents of Bethaveppampattu in Vaniyambadi kept officials on their toes on Tuesday after they claimed to have seen a mysterious burning object fall from the sky on an agricultural field.
The object, according to villagers, fell with an explosion-like sound and left behind a huge cloud of smoke.
On being informed by the Vaniyambadi Tahsildar, a team of six personnel from the Fire and Rescue Services rushed to the spot and found that the object had created a three-foot-deep pit measuring about two metres wide on the field.
“We retrieved a stone from the pit. It weighed about 200 gm. Villagers were scared to come near the pit. The pit was filled with water as it was an agricultural field. We handed over the stone to the tahsildar,” said Syed Noorullah, station officer, Vaniyambadi Fire and Rescue Services. Villagers had informed the revenue officials of the incident at 1.45 p.m. T. Bakiya Lakshmi, Vaniyambadi Tahsildar, rushed to the spot.
Noise and smoke
“Villagers claimed that the sound was heard for nearly two km and that smoke rose to the height of a a palm tree. But it seemed like a hard stone and was in the size of the fist. We handed over the stone to ‘Q’ branch police,” she said.
