A man walking on the beach on an island off Massachusetts made a remarkable discovery - a zip-style plastic bag containing clear plastic dental aligners from 100 miles away.

Rick Maurice was taking a first-day-of-summer stroll on Tuckernuck Island off Nantucket when he came across the bag.

When he picked it up he noticed the plastic dental devices inside and the dentist's name printed on the bag.

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© Unknown'Raw power of nature': Springfield orthodontist Dr Scott Smith who gave the dental aligners to the patient.

'It said Invisalign on the package, so I knew what they were,' he said.

'It looked new," he said. 'I could clearly read the word Invisaline on it and I thought it must have fallen from a boat. It was just flotsam and jetsam.'

Mr Maurice Googled the Springfield orthodontist Dr. Scott Smith and found out the June 1 tornado had destroyed a patient's house in Brimfield.

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© UnknownAmazing journey: The bag flew 100 miles from Brimfield to the island of Tuckernuck.
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© UnknownStrange find: The dental aligners that were kept in a draw at Tammy Lamy's home in Brimfield.
The patient, Tammy Lamy, had the bag in her closet when the tornado leveled her home.

'It was at her house. And it traveled, somehow, all the way to the ocean, a hundred and something miles away,' Mr Maurice said from a friend's home on Nantucket island Wednesday Night.

Dr. Smith was amazed by the journey his dental appliance made, wwlp.com reports.

"The fact that this can be picked up in the atmosphere and thrown in the atmosphere that far away, it shows you the raw power of nature, just unbelievable, incredible," Dr. Smith said.

His assistant, Diane Marino, first spoke with Mr Maurice, wwlp.com reports.

She says that this miraculous find may be just the beginning.

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© UnknowIn ruins: Tammy Lamy's home in Brimfield which took a direct hit in the June 1 tornado.
"I just wonder what else is out there?"

'I'm sure that people are going to be finding things day after day from the tornado, maybe things of sentimental value," she said.

Rick Maurice and his wife normally spend the Summer on Nantucket, but they came early this year, because his main house was destroyed by a devastating Earthquake in Christ Church, New Zealand, last February.

"I was lucky. I was in the kitchen, and it came apart, and I got out from under all the fallen glass.

'It was almost 11 o'clock in the morning when the earthquake hit. The big one."

Maurice says he and his wife are refugees now, staying with friends on nantucket, and his wife's family in Swampscott.

He's waiting for word on whether they'll be able to move back to New Zealand.

In the meantime, he's looking at properties on Nantucket, and says he'd be happy to return that one small item that traveled one hundred miles on tornado-driven winds.