Updated: Thursday, August 1 2013, 11:56 AM CDT
A North Texas property owner discovered a World War II-era artillery shell on his land near Corsicana.
Ubaldo Mijares and his sons were clearing brush when he noticed something sticking out of the base of a tree.
?I never seen nothing like that,? he said. ?At first, I think it?s a bottle for oil.?
But when he dug it up and showed it to his boss, he found out the two-foot tall rusty relic was much more than that.
?He said it?s a bomb,? Mirarjes said.
He contacted the Navarro County Sheriff?s Department who called in federal help. Fort Hood sent a team to examine it and they determined it was a 155mm howitzer shell dating back 70 years or more.
The team destroyed the shell but the mystery of how it got there in the first place remains.
Sheriff Elmer Tanner theorizes that someone simply buried it under the tree decades ago. He also said that Mijares is lucky he and his boys were not hurt.
?We certainly believed it was a live round and easily could have caused damage and destruction had it been set off,? Sheriff Tanner said. ?I?ve never seen anything like this in my law enforcement tenure here in the Sheriff?s office.?
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