COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Something fell from the sky last week and blew a 4-inch hole through the roof of a Colorado Springs bar.

But no one has any idea what hit the roof at around 11:30 p.m on Dec. 31.

The owner of the Red Rock Lounge told The Gazette newspaper that she thought it was a meteorite. But five days after the incident, the owner and firefighters still hadn't found the object in the bar's ceiling tiles,

Firefighters heard the boom three blocks away. The hole was made from the roof down, which meant it wasn't caused by gunfire in the bar, and there's no burn marks indicating lightning.

“If you look at that hole, it shows that something small hit the roof at a high velocity,” said Robert W. Ward, who travels the world to find, collect and sell meteorites. “The most logical explanation would be a meteorite.”

Ward failed to find any trace of the object that hit the roof.

The bar is located at 3113 W. Colorado Ave., miles west of the Colorado Springs airport.

Chris Peterson, a space science research associate at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, said the object probably wasn't a meteorite because it wasn't preceded by a booming noise. He said meteors travel faster than sound so they create a sonic boom before the crash.

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