Object Found Near Spot Where Man Saw Other Strange Item

Wakefield, N.H. -- A Wakefield man has a mystery in his living room, an object that looks kind of a like a rock but not quite, which might have fallen from the sky.

William McCarthy found the mysterious object that's about the size of a football and weighs about the same. But he said he can't figure out what it is or from where it came.

"And after I started looking at it, I noticed all of the strange things that were in that lump," McCarthy said.

Some of the unusual features are a detailed leaf imprint on one side, and on the other side is a slash of what looks like red paint, but it won't scratch off, even with a knife.

"I have a hard time believing that occurs naturally, especially since it's so nice and smooth and shiny," McCarthy said.

He said he found the object lying on the forest floor not far from his house -- and not far from where another strange thing happened three decades ago.

"You've heard of hair-raising experiences? Well, they actually happen," McCarthy said. "Because the hair went right up on the back of my head."

In 1977, McCarthy found a giant square object melting into the thick ice of his frozen pond. He said the only place from which it could have come is the sky.

"We go back to the object in the pond, and guess what? It wasn't there," McCarthy said. "But there was this square hole the same size as the object had been."

He said the object was so hot that it melted through 12 inches of ice. He never retrieved it and still wonders what it was.

Now, 31 years later, he's wondering the same thing about the new object. McCarthy said he took the object to the fire department Thursday morning to make sure it wasn't radioactive. Firefighters tested it and gave it the all-clear.