COLORADO SPRINGS — Mystery still surrounds what caused a boom and a 4-inch hole to open up in the Red Rock Lounge about 11:30 p.m. Dec. 29.
“They thought they were being attacked,” Karol Sandvig, owner of the bar, said of the 15 to 20 people there when the ceiling exploded, sending insulation wafting through the air.
Five days after the incident, Sandvig and firefighters still aren’t sure of the cause, but a meteorite hunter from Arizona drove through the night to search for a piece of space rock. The hole was clearly made from the roof down, which meant it wasn’t caused by gunfire in the bar, and there were no burn marks or signs of high heat that would indicate lightning.
There also was no proof it was a meteorite. Maria St. Louis-Sanchez, The Gazette
