A crisp winter morning in Albuquerque, the scent of breakfast burritos wafting from local restaurants, unwary drivers zipping through red lights, and suddenly – whoosh.
A White House-sized object descends from the skies, creating a fireball with hurricane-force winds that knock over buildings and blow out windows for miles around.
The article tells how Sandia National Laboratories researchers have estimated that such an event is more common than previous expected. Well, not Albuquerque precisely, but on Earth in general.
Chicken Little was right!