A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens.
Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites.
They are now investigating local magnetic fields to try and work out what makes the property so attractive to the heavenly bodies.
But Mr Lajic, who has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house he owns in the northern village of Gornja Lamovite, has an alternative explanation.
He said: "I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate."
The first meteorite fell on his house in November last year and since then a further four have smashed into his home.
Astronomy: Stardate (BBC)Last year, I visited a home in Chicago where a 2.5 kilogram meteorite had fallen through the roof just days earlier. It crashed through the attic, destroying a thick wooden support joist along the way, then smashed through a bedroom ceiling, breaking the window and mirrored wardrobe doors as it bounced off walls around the room.
Stop Worrying (Time magazine)
What are the chances of being hit by a meteorite? In Popular Astronomy, Professor Lincoln LaPaz, head of the University of New Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics, estimates the odds: three chances out of ten that someone will be hit every 100 years. Since a little Japanese girl was nicked in 1927 by what was probably a meteorite, the danger for the rest of earth's inhabitants for the rest of the century is just about zero.
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