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   BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – A Basking Ridge   
   homeowner would really like to know why there’s a crater in her   
   front yard.   
      
   “To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because   
   the grass was folded back, the rocks and dirt were all spewn out   
   into the cul-de-sac and across the driveway,” Sue, who asked not   
   to be identified out of concern that the hole may draw unwanted   
   onlookers and crowds, said.   
      
   Her son, Jeff, believes something fell from the heavens.   
      
   “Something clearly came out of the sky and just hit it from an   
   angle and then it all shot up the other way,” he said.   
      
   Officials and experts are also scratching their heads. For now,   
   it appears the small crater that splayed debris across a 100-   
   foot area wasn’t caused by a meteorite. Beyond that, it’s a   
   mystery.   
      
   “It’s just really, really weird,” said Jerry Vinski, director of   
   nearby Raritan Valley Community College’s planetarium, who   
   conducted tests on the site. “We dug around and couldn’t find   
   anything. We used metal detectors because all meteors have metal   
   in them, and we couldn’t find anything, large or small.”   
      
   Bernards Township Police Capt. Edward Byrnes said whatever hit   
   the front yard left a crater about 18 inches deep and roughly   
   the size of a coffee table.   
      
   A State Police bomb squad ruled out explosives, Byrnes said.   
      
   According to Byrnes, no one in the neighborhood heard or saw   
   anything at the time of the May 6 incident. The homeowner called   
   police upon arriving home.   
      
   “The weather was clear, there were no reports of lightning   
   strikes; nobody reported seeing anything,” Byrnes said. “I’ve   
   never seen anything like this in 23 years.”   
      
   Vinski said that the hole could have been caused by an object   
   falling from a plane. He said if the object was a meteorite, the   
   impact would have been significant and would have been felt   
   nearby.   
      
   “When you see meteor showers in the upper atmosphere, they’re   
   traveling 50 miles a second,” he said. “Even if it’s slowing   
   down through the atmosphere, you’re still going to have a sonic   
   boom. And it would have left something behind, it wouldn’t have   
   completely disintegrated.”   
      
   What do you think created the hole? Let us know below   
      
   Giant pigs did it.   
      
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