Flare was disposed of by blowing it up by experts in disposing of explosive and highly flammable objects. Most heard and felt the explosion. "Thought I had found a brick of silver, until it was checked out," Stan Haire of 198 Roberts Lane said.

Stan Haire came by the Liberal office Friday, March 5, and got to thinking about what had happened. "I'm gonna sue somebody. That thing could have fallen 20 feet back, and I would have been homeless," Haire stated.

When he got home, Friday evening, March 5, Stan Haire's wife, Diane, asked him if the plumber had dug a hole between the house and the pump. She said it was something in a hole in the yard.

Upon checking Mr. Haire found, what he described as a silver brick-like object in the hole in the ground. It turned out to be a flare that had not ignited when shot from a plane going over.

Haire took the object to the Miller County Sheriff's Office. Lt. Dale Glover called the U.S. Air Force Base in Valdosta. They dispatched a team of explosion experts to Miller County to dispose of the object in a nearby field.

If you heard, felt or saw a large boom at 8:54 p.m. that sounded like lightning had struck something nearby, it was the bomb disposal unit from Moody Air Force Base blowing the explosive/ highly flammable flare unit with C-4.

Stan Haire was just proud it didn't explode in his yard or home.