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Journal of Professor Zachary Zapperoni, 23rd February 1876

I must admit the events of last evening have left me somewhat perplexed and elated. While returning home from a ceremony in Baltimore for the inauguration of a new university, my journey was interrupted by what appeared to be a falling star blazing across the path of my carriage and landing explosively in a nearby field. While my driver endeavoured to calm the horses, my natural inquisitiveness overtook me and taking one of the lanterns from the carriage I proceeded through the dark towards the upthrown mound of earth and sod created by the careening object. Expecting to find some smouldering shard of rock amidst the tumult, I was shocked to see a metal cylinder of approximately one yard in length and half that in diameter shimmering in the flickering torchlight. Approaching closer to the object than common sense should have allowed me, I was further surprised to find that rather than feeling any heat coming from the object I felt a wave of cold encroach upon me. Shivering I knelt by the missile (for I now presumed it was some sort of military shell fired inadvertently from one of the nearby barracks) and examined it more closely.