On November 30, 1954, a descending fireball was seen by many people across Alabama, with dark smoke, an explosion, and white smoke shooting in several directions, leading even the Air Force to search for a crash. In Oak Grove, Dr. Moody Jacobs was called around 1 p.m. to treat Mrs. Ann Hodges, who had been struck when an 8½ pound meteorite crashed through the roof of her house, bounced off a radio, and hit her while she was napping on a couch under blankets, leaving severe bruises on her left hip and hand. The house stood on property owned by the Guy family, 50 yards southwest of this site facing Odens Mill Road, and the event became the first modern instance in Oak Grove, Alabama, of a meteorite striking a human being. The next day, nearby farmer Julius K. McKinney found a 3½ pound black rock in the road after his mules shied away from it, and after geological confirmation he sold it to the Smithsonian Institute, where it resides in the Hall of Meteorites. The Hodges and McKinney aerolites are the only known meteors from that day, though other “comets” likely reached the ground, and the Hodges meteorite has been on display at the University of Alabama’s Museum of Natural History in Tuscaloosa since March 1956.