When Sputnik became the first manmade satellite to enter space on Oct. 4, 1957, its alien beeping shocked America.
Its signal stopped after just three weeks, and three months later sky gazers could no longer see a little moving dot. Many people thought that Sputnik was lost for ever.
But Bob Morgan claims to have pieces from the original Sputnik. He lives near Santa Barbara and runs a jet ski business. He describes the morning of Dec. 8, 1957, when his father woke up to a glowing object in their yard.
"He looked out the back window and there was something that was so bright in the back yard, he couldn't look at it," Morgan says.
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