When Nick Lanzara walked into work at HG Hardware in Aurora, Illinois Thursday morning, he could hear water rushing through the ceiling tiles and flooding the floor.
“I walked back to where the noise was coming from, looked up, and I saw the sky,” he said.
A 6-inch bolt, weighing about a half-pound, apparently had fallen from the sky, pierced the building’s metal roof and ceiling tile and landed on the floor of the store. Rain was pouring in through the hole it left in the roof.
“I thought it was a lightning strike,” Lanzara said — until he saw the hole, shaped exactly like a bolt.
On the floor, co-worker Diego Menchaca found the culprit: The rusty, beat-up bolt sat just beneath the hole on the floor of aisle 5.
Employees assume it fell from an airplane, but aren’t sure.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said objects do occasionally fall from planes, though often there’s another explanation for fallen objects reported to the agency.
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