Man Looks for Missing Cat, Finds UFO Instead

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According to news reports, an Austrian farmer discovered a mysterious, deep, perfectly round hole that apparently had appeared in his field overnight. And, of course, extraterrestrial activity was assumed.

Farmer Franz Knoglinger discovered the hole while looking for a lost pet. In an interview with the Austrian Times newspaper, Knoglinger said: "I was looking for our family cat, Murlimann, when I noticed the hole. I didn't know how deep it was, so I dropped the stone down there and heard a metallic clunk. From the time it took for the stone to reach the bottom, I realized it was very deep."

Intrigued, Knoglinger used a rope to lower a magnet into the hole, and he concluded that whatever was at the bottom was metallic. This only deepened the puzzle, and soon the mystery drew local, national and, finally, international attention. Curiosity-seekers, geologists and UFO buffs flocked to the farm to see the hole for themselves. A buried UFO became a favorite explanation.

A few clues shed some light on the mystery. If the hole was indeed perfectly round, then the obvious source was a drill. In fact, the hole's perfect roundness would make it less mysterious, if anything, because drills leave round holes. A perfectly square, rectangular, or even oval shape would be more extraordinary.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/man-looks-for-missing-cat-finds-ufo-instead

[valerief]

1. If it wasn't flying, how could it be an unidentified flying object? Sounds more like a

UBO (unidentified buried object).

[Quantess]

2. The title was kind of a ruse...

"The case in Austria stumped many until a local historian decided to do a bit of digging — not in the dusty field but in the local land-use archives. It turns out the hole had not appeared overnight as Knoglinger assumed, but had been there for decades. In fact, a half-century ago an oil company had drilled there looking for oil. A large metal drill bit became stuck and broke before workers could find anything, so they left the drill bit at the bottom of the hole and never bothered to fill it in. That's what attracted the magnet dropped down to the bottom: not a spaceship but a large metal bit stuck in rock."

[valerief]

5. Ha! Not woo-woo after all! nt

[LARED]

3. Everyone knows alien spaceships are not magnetic .........

silly Aussies

[Kablooie]

4. It's a drill head from an abandoned oil well test. I read about this awhile back.

It was to difficult to get it back out so they just left it in there.

[Robert Czar]

6. On the subject of weirdness