Residents of Ahlbach, Germany, were mostly asleep at about 4 a.m. Sunday when they were jolted by a sudden blast.
Something seemed to have exploded, large enough to feel like an earthquake, and a massive crater in a cornfield was all that remained.
Police were sent to inspect the hole, which measured 33 feet wide and 13 feet deep, they said.
Was it a World War II bomb?
At first, officials weren’t sure. But after a day studying the crater, they said it “almost certainly” was a 550-pound dud.
“With the former railway depot, we were quite a bomb target at the end of the Second World War,” city spokesman Johannes Laubach told the German news website Hessenschau. “We can be glad that the farmer was not in the field.“
Undiscovered bombs can often explode without outside forces acting on them, experts say, as their detonators decompose over time.
Old bombs are not uncommon finds in Germany and elsewhere, with hundreds found each year.
In September, a 3,000-pound bomb discovered in Frankfurt caused nearly 60,000 people to be evacuated while experts defused it. In May, more than 50,000 people were evacuated from Hanover after bombs were discovered during pre-construction work.
After WWII, lots of bombs and other ammunitions were thrown in the Baltic and North Seas creating a veritable mess more than 70 years later, with people igniting spontaneoulsy after finding fake amber on beaches.
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That is nothing, just wait until the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery off the Kent coast Blows up, unless something is done about it soon as it is collapsing under its own weight of the 1400 tonnes of explosive in WWII unexploded bombs still aboard.
It is only a matter of time! See:
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com
Not a meteor because it would have had to come straight down to make such a perfectly round hole. A bomb perhaps, but why don’t they show metal fragments? And if it was a bomb, then why are the grain stalks untouched beyond the rim of the elevated earth? A bomb would normally cast earth far into the field. It may have been a gravitational anomaly.