Metal Chunk Crashes Through N.J. Roof
Associated Press 07.18.07, 11:40 AM ET

BAYONNE, N.J. -

A hunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a home has NASA, Federal Aviation Administration and New Jersey Transit officials scratching their heads.

The man who lives in the house was watching television Tuesday when he heard a crash and saw a cloud of dust. In the next room, he found a hunk of gray metal, 3 1/2 inches by 5 inches, with two hexagonal holes in it.

Experts say it's manmade, but nobody can say where it might have come from.

New Jersey Transit has railroad tracks about 100 feet from the house, but spokesman Dan Stessel said the object isn't something that would have flown off a train.

FAA officials said it wasn't a part that would have fallen from a plane headed into or out of nearby Newark Liberty International Airport.

"It doesn't look very `space-y,'" said Henry Kline, a spokesman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "It's obviously made for something ... But we wouldn't know what to do with it."

U.S. Air Force Major Costas Leonidou at the Pentagon said he couldn't identify the fallen object, either. "It could be Air Force, Navy, Marines, commercial. It could be anything," he said.

Authorities in Bayonne, as well as the home's residents, just want to get it identified.

"It belongs to somebody," Police Director Mark Smith said.

Any trebuchet in the neighborhood?

It's one of "The Don's" engineering projects...what does this have to do with a woodchuck?

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Bayonne--it is probably a piece from a 96 El Dorado that got blown up night before last.

brazil...

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Brazil?

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was not me.. I was aiming to the east...

hmm I want to build one now

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Don was launching a batch of burned cookies that day. Hmmm, how hard WERE those burned cookies, Don?

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I only launch to the east. I don't want to hit some shi!tty levy and flood a whole city.. again