A family got the shock of their life when they returned to their house to find a meteorite had smashed through the roof.
They called the non-emergency line and struggled to explain what had actually happened.
The mysterious object had smashed through the roof of their New Jersey home, through the ceiling and then ricocheted off the hardwood floor before coming to a stop.
Homeowner Suzy Kop said that at first she thought someone had thrown something before seeing the damage and the strange object.
A police spokesperson said: "The object, which is described as approximately 4' x 6' is oblong in shape and appears metallic. It penetrated the roof, the ceiling and then impacted the hardwood floor before coming to a rest."
Various agencies have been contacted to ensure the object can be identified and to make sure it's not dangerous for the residents.
The police added: "This may be related to a current Meteor shower called the Eta Aquariids. The investigation is ongoing."
Suzy said: "We are thinking it's a meteorite, came through here, hit the floor here because that's completely damaged, it ricocheted up to this part of the ceiling and then finally rested on the floor there."
She stepped over the debris to find the strange rock in the corner.
She explained: "I did touch the thing because it thought it was a random rock, I don't know, and it was warm."
No one was injured but there were fears it could be dangerous.
Suzy said: "They were afraid that, you know, because it fell from the sky, was it radioactive? Could we have a type of residue on us? So they scanned us and everything came back clear."
An expert told CBS the rock could be as much as five billion years old and has been hurtling around space since, left over from the beginning of the solar system.
Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, said that to hit a house and to be intact enough for someone to touch it is incredibly rare and "has happened very few times in history."
"It's been running around in space all that time and now it's come to Earth and fell in their laps," Mr Pitts said. "For it to actually strike a house, for people to be able to pick up, that's really unusual and has happened very few times in history."
