- Originally, it was a routine trip to their home in the
Corinth Community Sunday night for Dean and Carrie Martin.
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- Then, all that changed.
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- Carrie Martin told The Chronicle Monday that she was
afraid at first that "people would think we're crazy", but she
said she and her husband had just passed the Corinth Fire Department when
they first saw it. They were approaching the new home of their neighbors,
Bryce and Michelle Moss on Corinth Road, when they saw something in the
sky to their left.
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- Sparks which appeared to be several inches long were
coming from the unknown object in the sky. Carrie Martin said it was just
high enough to cross over utility lines. It crossed the road and struck
a tree on the Moss property.
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- "There was a car directly behind us so we couldn't
just stop," she said. They turned around after a short distance and
returned to the scene. "It was in the tree," Mrs. Martin said.
They could still see the sparks and the "ground was catching fire."
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- They drove to Bryce and Michelle Moss's present home
and reported the situation to them. Mrs. Martin dialed 911 and got Union
County Communications Department who advised they call on a "land
line." Mrs. Moss called Cherokee Communications who said they had
already been notified by Union County.
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- The incident occurred about 6:15 Sunday night, Mrs. Martin
says.
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- The Corinth Volunteer Fire Department answered the call
and extinguished the fire. Chief Doug Bowers said that after a conversation
with the eyewitnesses, fire department personnel shined a light into the
top of a tree where the object crashed. Chief Bowers said departmental
personnel spotted a shiney object about 20 feet off the ground in the tree.
The object appeared to be about six inches wide, Chief Bowers said.
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- Cherokee Communications Department contacted the Federal
Aviation Administration who said they had had no reports of any plane in
the area having any difficulty.
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- Bowers said FAA officials said they had no idea what
had been spotted in the skies of rural Cherokee County. "They called
it a 'headscratcher'," Bowers said.
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- Carrie Martin said she and her husband went back to the
scene on Monday but could not find the shiney object in the tree. Too,
they checked the brush area which had burned and found nothing suspicious.
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- Mrs. Martin said she wondered if what fell could not
have been some piece of the experimental objects that are placed in the
atmosphere by the United States or some other government.
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- But for the time being, nobody knows what fell through
the Cherokee County sky and crashed into a Corinth tree Sunday night.
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