A security officer said he had never seen anything like this before. He said it was a very unique thing to find.

TSA officers found a stolen old cannonball in a bag at the airport. This is a photo of what they found.

The cannonballs were not active and did not have any explosives. But they are not allowed on planes because they are old military items.

The police found out that the cannonballs were stolen from a fort. They were from the American Civil War and had special paint on them.

A young person stole the cannonballs from the fort and put them in their grandmother's bag. The grandmother did not know they were stolen.

The fort did not want to press charges, so the cannonballs were returned. The people in charge of the fort did not comment on what happened.