Posted on 02/18/2009 12:58:54 PM PST by Big_Monkey
The Federal Aviation Administration says a piece of hot metal that crashed through the roof of a Jersey City business did not come from an airplane.
FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac says investigators examined the metal and determined it is made of cast iron, which is not used in airplanes. She says it's up to local authorities to determine where the object came from.
Owner Al Smith was fork-lifting a sofa onto a wooden storage platform around 10 a.m. at his moving company when he heard a sound he thought was a bomb.
A piece of warm metal the size of a brick came crashing through the roof just steps from where he was standing. It splintered a wooden beam and crashed into a shelf.
Smith tells WCBS radio that no one was injured. He plans buy a lottery ticket, saying it's his lucky day.
He says the metal is about the size of a brick and came crashing through the roof around 10 a.m.
Officials at the scene also confirmed to WCBS radio that the metal was too hot to touch for about 30 minutes after crashing through the roof.
This is suspicious.
Shot put by an abominable snowman? Search the neighborhood for catapults?
Did the iron piece look naturally ‘cast’ or did it appear to have been ‘cast’ by a factory?
A real UFO! OK, really, it’s now identified, so doesn’t classify as such, oh well. Another great job by the UFO detectives at the FAA.
Iran put up their first satellite, right?
It probably was a cast-iron brick.
>Iran put up their first satellite, right?
>It probably was a cast-iron brick.
LOL - At least Sputnik “beeped”.
Correction: The FAA only said it was not a part of an airplane. The piece of iron could have been dropped from an airplane. The FAA ought to check their radar data to determine what planes both commercial and private where over the area.
hmmmmm
Even if it was "dropped" from an aircraft, what would explain the heat of the object? People on the ground said it was too hot to handle for :30 minutes after it was on the ground.
There's not enough friction from an intra-atmosphere fall to generate that kind of heat. It certainly makes be believe that it came from above the exosphere.
Did it have Russian writing on it? Space junk from recent collision?
Russian satellite debris? Maybe this was a piece of shielding or part of an anti satellite weapon.
Assuming it came from space (conclusion based on heat), it likely wouldn’t have been anything launched. Who launches iron? Aluminum, steel, titanium sure, but iron? That would seem to be too dense to be worth launching.
Meteorites are cold as they land, though. The heated part burns off on the way down. The inner part is just barely warming from single digit Kelvin temps. This is a surprising thing but true. I suppose if a rock had been in a close orbit to the sun it might have warmed up all the way through.
A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens. Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites.
Liquid metal cooled reactor valvings.
Not my fault.
Nearby boiler explosion?
Sort of thought that, but we haven’t made a cast iron boiler since around or before WWII... Compressors and engines are still made of cast iron and could have gotten that hot before coming apart at speed and/or pressure. A good size Detroit Diesel two stroke tacked out would throw pieces a pretty good distance...
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