'Lime jello' and a UFO

Thursday, July 23, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette

John Hubert, a member of the board of directors of the High Plains Historical Society, inspects a glob of green glass that fellow board member and McCook historian Walt Sehnert believes could have been created during a "UFO landing" northwest of Benkelman in 1884. Sehnert said descriptions of the glass glob include "lime jello with cottage cheese." Others describe it as "end-of-the-day" glass in the manufacture of Coca-Cola 7-Up bottles. A summer visitor to the museum, Robert Golka of Massachusetts, is requesting that the museum and the DAR (which owns the piece of glass on display at the museum) be analyzed by the Corning Glass Institute.

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UFO or glass from the old 7-Up plant? Gee, whichever could it be?

-- Posted by McCook1 on Thu, Jul 23, 2009, at 12:11 PM

I hate to do this, but I can't help it.

MWHAHAHAHAHA!

-- Posted by sameldridge on Thu, Jul 23, 2009, at 2:50 PM

Better check it for peanuts!

-- Posted by Deer Slayer on Thu, Jul 23, 2009, at 3:23 PM

WHAT SOME PEOPLE WILL DO TO BE FAMOUS!!!!!!!!!

-- Posted by Just a reader on Thu, Jul 23, 2009, at 5:00 PM

No doubt UFO! Aliens in McCook dropping their liquid wastes from high altitudes. Scary times when this gets a "Headline".

-- Posted by Online on Thu, Jul 23, 2009, at 6:01 PM

This is GREAT!! only in Nebraska would this make NEWS!!

-- Posted by Banani on Sat, Jul 25, 2009, at 1:14 AM