On November 30, 1954,Ann Elizabeth Hodges experienced what would become one of the most bizarre events in the history of ...

An Alabama woman made history 70 years ago Saturday when she survived a close encounter with a piece of falling space debris. Ann Hodges, 34, was napping on her couch in Oak Grove, near Sylacauga, on ...

SYLACAUGA, Ala. (WIAT) – She wished it hadn’t hit her. Ann Hodges had made that clear. The reserved woman, an Alabama native, told her then-husband she’d wished that the meteorite had burned up in the ...

Sylacauga celebrated the 70th anniversary Saturday of a truly unique event. In the fall of 1954, Eisenhower was in the White House, the conflict in Korea was over and Sputnik was still a couple of ...

In 1954, Ann Hodges, was struck by a meteorite while taking a nap in her Alabama home. Overnight, Hodges became a celebrity as word of her strange story traveled across the country. It's the ...

While resting in her living room in Sylacauga, Alabama, she was struck by a 10-pound meteorite that crashed through her ceiling. The unusual event captured both public imagination and scientific ...