Man tries to identify mystery object found in woods

A Wakefield man has a mystery in his living room, an object that looks kind of a like a rock but not quite, which might have fallen from the sky.

William McCarthy found the mysterious object lying on the forest floor not far from his house, that's about the size of a football and weighs about the same. But he said he can't figure out what it is or from where it came.

"And after I started looking at it, I noticed all of the strange things that were in that lump," McCarthy said.



Some of the unusual features are a detailed leaf imprint on one side, and on the other side is a slash of what looks like red paint, but it won't scratch off, even with a knife.

"I have a hard time believing that occurs naturally, especially since it's so nice and smooth and shiny," McCarthy said.

McCarthy said he took the object to the fire department on Thursday morning to make sure it wasn't radioactive. Firefighters tested it and gave it the all-clear.