COLORADO SPRINGS — Have you heard the one where the meteorite comes through the ceiling and nearly hits a guy sitting at the bar?
Neither had the patrons of the Red Rock Lounge on the west side until Wednesday night, when they heard a huge boom around 11:30 p.m. and a 4-inch hole opened up in the roof.
“They thought they were being attacked,” said Karol Sandvig, owner of the bar at 31st Street and West Colorado Avenue. She said there were about 15 to 20 people in the bar when the ceiling exploded, sending insulation wafting through the air.
Five days after the incident, Sandvig and firefighters still aren’t sure what caused the hole in the bar’s roof, but a meteorite hunter from Arizona drove through the night to spend Monday searching above the bar’s ceiling tiles for a piece of space rock. He hoped it had bounced off of a heating vent and was hiding somewhere in the ceiling.
Colorado Springs firefighters, who heard the boom at Station No. 5 three blocks away, couldn’t figure out what caused the hole even after examining it on Wednesday night and Thursday, said Lt. Robert Coffey, a fire department spokesman.
The hole was clearly made from the roof down, which meant it wasn’t caused by gunfire in the bar, and there’s no burn marks or signs of high heat that would indicate lightning.
Thre was also no proof it was a meteorite, Coffey said.
“I guess it could be, but without the rock how do you know?” he said.
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