14 DAY TRIAL // You know what they say: "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place"... but meteorites might! What is the chance of that ever happening? "I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate," says the owner of the house, Radivoje Lajic.
It all started in November last year and, since then, four more meteorites have crashed over Lajic's house. "I am being targeted by aliens. They are playing games with me. I don't know why they are doing this," says Lajic. He installed a steel-girder to the roof of his house in order to reinforce it.
Although there are no images of the destruction created by the fall of the five meteorites, Belgrade University confirmed that all of the rocks returned by Lajic were genuine meteorites. Meteorites are somehow like kinetic energy weapons, which harness the energy required to destroy a certain object from kinetic energy alone.
Kinetic weapons were first imagined in a novel written in 1985, where the kinetic energy weapons projectiles were big iron bars with steerable vanes for guidance. Once placed in orbit, these projectiles could be used anytime by simply putting them into a controlled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
"Thor will impact a target area at about 12,000 feet per second that is sufficient kinetic energy to destroy most hard targets, with minimum collateral damage and of course no fall-out. Achievable accuracy has been estimated at ten to twenty feet circular error of probability," says Jerry Pournelle, co-author of the novel describing such a kinetic energy weapon system.
Although its not quite sure what aliens might want with Mr Lajic, nor what is the true origin of the five space rocks, one thing is for certain; meteorites don't just fall out of the sky five times in only six months.