Manmade Hunk of Metal Crashes Through Roof in New Jersey [View All]

Manmade Hunk of Metal Crashes Through Roof in New Jersey
By The Associated Press
posted: 18 July 2007
12:51 pm ET

BAYONNE, New Jersey (AP) - A hunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home has NASA, Federal Aviation Administration and even U.S. defense officials curious.

A man 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, 3.5 inches (8.89 centimeters) by 5 inches (12.7 centimeters), with two hexagonal holes.

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FAA officials said it would not have fallen from a plane headed into or out of nearby Newark Liberty International Airport.

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

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