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Woman Says She Saw Star Fall To Earth
Geologist Unsure Of Retrieved Rocks
PALM BEACH, Fla., 12:05 a.m. EDT July 19, 2001 -- First there was a bright light, then a splash and what happened next had a lot of local people talking.

Deanna Ross, from Palm Beach, said that what she witnessed in the sky Tuesday night was nothing short of a meteor falling to earth.

"It seemed to stop and exploded into gazillions of pieces and fell down to the ocean," Ross said. "So my first thought was to come first thing in the morning and see if I could find some debris in the ocean."

She returned from the ocean with three rocks.

"It still feels very alive and soft," Ross explained. "I walk the ocean every day and evening so I was instantly aware it had to be parts of what I saw. It just had to be."

To find out for sure whether the stones Ross brought back were, in fact, remnants from a fireball, Eyewitness News 25 took them to a geologist at the South Florida science museum.

It didn't take the geologist, Dr. Stan "Rocks," long to come to this conclusion that the stones were probably made of volcanic material -- perhaps from a volcano on the ocean floor.

Deanna Ross, however, is not discouraged.

"It was just magical. It was so enchanting. I felt so exhilarated when I was watching this whole thing take place before my eyes," Ross remembered.