Sylacauga Meteorite Incident

Date: November 30, 1954 • Location: Mignon, United States

A meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, and hit a sleeping woman in the first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object.

The Sylacauga meteorite fell on November 30, 1954, at 12:46 p.m. local time in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga, in the United States. It is also commonly called the Hodges meteorite because a fragment of it struck Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges (1920–1972).