Plane Part Bursts Through Bowman Carport
Wendy Jeffcoat and Richard Walker
Orangeburg Times Democrat, SC
________________________
Bowman, South Carolina (US):
“It was coming through the treetops. I could hear the limbs cracking.” Moments before, Ed Williams heard and felt the force of jets overhead.
When the back window shattered on his parked 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe, blowing glass straight out toward the road, “I figured a tree limb had fell.” However, when Bowman police and fire personnel arrived on the scene, they discovered something more — a small hole in his tin-roofed car port, the shattered Tahoe window, a broken house window and a strange silver object lying on the ground.
The mystery surrounding the incident caused officials to cordon off the Dibble Street home while they tried to figure out exactly what the object was and if it was dangerous. It took the Air Force to identify the object as a piece from one of its jets.“It was an object somewhere around eight inches long with a spring on it,” Orangeburg County Fire System Coordinator Gene Ball said. “It apparently went through the roof, hit a car, broke the windshield out, bounced out and hit a house.”Bowman authorities were notified at about 7 p.m. of a possible vandalism at the residence, Police Chief Jason Marchant said.
“It went downhill from there fast,” he said, referring to the rumor mill surrounding the strange metallic object that touched down in the eastern Orangeburg County community.The Bowman Fire Department and the State Law Enforcement Division were notified of a device that had crashed out of the sky and into the Williams’ car and car port.
On-scene authorities were unable to immediately say the object wasn’t explosive, Marchant said, leaving police no choice but to clear the area.In the meantime, a call was put in to officials at both the North Auxiliary Air Field and Shaw Air Force Base.“They were trying everything they knew with us on the phone trying to ID it,” Marchant said.
Oct 26, 2005
Wendy Jeffcoat and Richard Walker
Orangeburg Times Democrat, SC
________________________
Bowman, South Carolina (US):
“It was coming through the treetops. I could hear the limbs cracking.” Moments before, Ed Williams heard and felt the force of jets overhead.
When the back window shattered on his parked 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe, blowing glass straight out toward the road, “I figured a tree limb had fell.” However, when Bowman police and fire personnel arrived on the scene, they discovered something more — a small hole in his tin-roofed car port, the shattered Tahoe window, a broken house window and a strange silver object lying on the ground.
The mystery surrounding the incident caused officials to cordon off the Dibble Street home while they tried to figure out exactly what the object was and if it was dangerous. It took the Air Force to identify the object as a piece from one of its jets.“It was an object somewhere around eight inches long with a spring on it,” Orangeburg County Fire System Coordinator Gene Ball said. “It apparently went through the roof, hit a car, broke the windshield out, bounced out and hit a house.”Bowman authorities were notified at about 7 p.m. of a possible vandalism at the residence, Police Chief Jason Marchant said.
“It went downhill from there fast,” he said, referring to the rumor mill surrounding the strange metallic object that touched down in the eastern Orangeburg County community.The Bowman Fire Department and the State Law Enforcement Division were notified of a device that had crashed out of the sky and into the Williams’ car and car port.
On-scene authorities were unable to immediately say the object wasn’t explosive, Marchant said, leaving police no choice but to clear the area.In the meantime, a call was put in to officials at both the North Auxiliary Air Field and Shaw Air Force Base.“They were trying everything they knew with us on the phone trying to ID it,” Marchant said.
Oct 26, 2005
