Maybe it was a meteorite?

That would be way cooler, but I really doubt it lol

That was my first thought too, think it’s safe to just tell people that it was a meteorite. I mean are they going to prove it wasn’t??

I can't say with any certainty what it WAS, but my opinion is it's pretty unlikely that it was a bullet, particularly on a horizontal surface. Unless it hit perfectly head-on, a bullet would have very likely ricocheted and left an oblong mark or divot

Good point. Meteorite it is!

True. It’s been there for as long as I can remember, but my family doesn’t possess any guns. I think it might’ve been a meteorite!

That would be cool, so that's the story I'd go with! LOL

It could be as simple as an air bubble in the concrete that eventually spalled (fancy concrete term) the top off of it

Someone hit it with an assault hammer

Oh, that’s probably a more plausible explanation. Although, if you look closely, the edges of the crater (lol) are charred, like how a firecracker would make marks

My guess their was a rock that got knocked onto the wet pavement before it could dry and got stepped on or driven over and pulled out

I thought this was a real thing for a second lmao

But would that explain the charred bits on the edge??

Dirt/mould due to water collecting into it and seeping into the concrete, any soot from a built or meteorite would have washed away long ago

In that case that hollow would be dirtier due to water and dirt collecting in it, not cleaner which is what it looks

If it was a bullet shot straight up into the air, maybe..... but my money is on a tiny meteorite. 17000 hit every year. If it's fresh, see if any bits are magnetic.

its hard to think of anything else because their is no impact trail, no meteor is gonna hit at a near perfect 90 degree angle, someone might have shot it but id supprised if they didn't get a bit of shrapnel in their legs for their effort, like I said it was my best guess

Edit....also it could just be darker because of said rock preventing the pavement from getting sun bleached as much

Your family's lack of gun ownership isn't an issue. People fire guns off at New Year's and the bullets have to land somewhere. Every once in a while someone unrelated gets injured or killed.

how can any ody live in a place where there is such a thing as stray bullets and be cool with it?

I’m actually convinced it’s not a bullet hole, unless the bullet somehow came straight down on the concrete. People have suggested that it’s a very small meteorite crater!

I should also say that where I live, there aren’t a lot of shootings, but stray bullets could possibly be a thing… I live outside a small city in Southern California where there are a lot of farms

Meteorite it hit and bounced far away or vaporized,gotta be I don't see any other explanation it's concrete it doesn't do that evan when a hammer hits it but something from space ya and it's burnt around it.

maybe a hit from a stromg slingshot although that would not be any better from a getting-killed-by-accident point of view.

i cannot avoind to mention how very very very strange the phenomenon of stray bullets is to a non-american.

Meteorite.

Harmless to humans.

Devastating to ants.