Now We Understand

We have been assiduously following the story of the alien bombardment of Freehold, New Jersey. Up until now, we had not really understood the full ramifications of what the aliens were doing with this offense. New details have emerged, however, that shed light on the incident and the real motives. Unfortunately, the earthlings are foolishly playing right into their hands.

"The fact that something from outer space hit our house … it's overwhelming," Shankari Nageswaran said in an interview. She and her husband, Srinivasan Nageswaran, a 46-year-old consultant for information technology companies, are from India and have lived in Freehold Township since 2003.

On the night of Jan. 2, Srinivasan Nageswaran walked into his bathroom and spotted a hole in the ceiling and small chunks of drywall and insulation littering the room…..

….Two geologists from Rutgers University, along with an independent metallurgist, soon arrived. They concluded that the rock - tentatively named "Freehold Township" - was an iron meteorite.

"It could have done great damage and destruction," Srinivasan Nageswaran marveled. "It could have hurt our people."

About 50 meteorites reach the Earth's surface each year, but with humans occupying only a small part of the planet, there is only one report every year or two of meteorites hitting buildings, said Tim McCoy, curator of the Smithsonian Institution's meteorite collection.

Every meteorite serves as a "poor man's space probe," yielding information on how the solar system formed, McCoy said.

"There's been fewer than 5,000 meteorites found over the surface of the Earth in the recorded history of mankind," McCoy said. "Every time we get a new one, it's an important event."

Meteorites that hit buildings can be sold for thousands of dollars.

The Nageswarans have not decided what to do with their meteorite, despite plenty of advice from family and friends. But they said they want to make sure that the rock, which they have locked up at a bank, serves an educational purpose.

"There are other dimensions to it than just the absolute 'What is it worth?'" Shankari Nageswaran said.

Given the fact that the "meteorite" is the size of a golf ball but weighs some 13 ounces, it should be obvious that this is not just a rock, but a device of some kind. We here at Blue Crab Boulevard believe that locking it up in the bank is the worst thing they could have done. We strongly suspect that the object is actually the "bank vac" attachment for the mother ship.

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