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.
I don’t know. I mentioned it to Darksheare because he’s involved in ballistics and lives in the Northeast :-).
If this was in the south, just before it hit the building there would have been the phrase “hold my beer
Not from artillery, I can tell you that much.
I can think of ways of making ‘cast iron’ appear, but none of them are plausible in this scenario.
(Thermite reaction being one, but that’s highly implausible.)
It’s not even from Gerald Bull’s HARP project.
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/abroject.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/martlet.htm
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Smartlet.htm
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.Jack dropped it to see what would happen.
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Only if the overspeed intake door was blocked open.
UFO exploded and was made of cast iron.
Hard theorized a liquid metal cooled electromagnetic drive for an aircraft a long time ago, but I highly doubt such even exists.
I’d go with thermite, but there is no mention of a bright flash in the sky.
Kinda hard to miss an aerial thermite reaction.
Typo alert!
HEard theorized a....
*sigh*
Me and my typos are gonna destroy the world, I swear.
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