jjcollins
06-14-2002, 09:29 AM
ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. -- Officials in a South Carolina beach town said that they are puzzled by a giant silver orb that washed up on shore this week.
The smooth, metallic ball is about 3 feet in diameter and weighed several hundred pounds.
There are numbers on the surface, but no other clues.
Police, firefighters, an Air Force bomb squad, the Coast Guard and the state Department of Health and Environmental Control all examined the orb on Wednesday, but none could identify it.
Officials contacted NASA and the National Weather Service, but none claimed ownership.
Isle of Palms Fire Chief Ann Graham says officials are calling it a UFO, "unidentified floating object."
Isle of Palms is on the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Charleston, S.C.
Marie Segneri said that the ball washed up in front of her rented beach house Monday night.
The Tampa, Fla., woman said that the ball appeared to have been at sea for some time.
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The smooth, metallic ball is about 3 feet in diameter and weighed several hundred pounds.
There are numbers on the surface, but no other clues.
Police, firefighters, an Air Force bomb squad, the Coast Guard and the state Department of Health and Environmental Control all examined the orb on Wednesday, but none could identify it.
Officials contacted NASA and the National Weather Service, but none claimed ownership.
Isle of Palms Fire Chief Ann Graham says officials are calling it a UFO, "unidentified floating object."
Isle of Palms is on the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Charleston, S.C.
Marie Segneri said that the ball washed up in front of her rented beach house Monday night.
The Tampa, Fla., woman said that the ball appeared to have been at sea for some time.
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