Close
call with UFO nzherald.co.nz Experts
are mystified by an unidentified flying object that crashed through the roof of
a Hawke's Bay home. Nightshift
worker George Cunningham woke about 5pm on Wednesday to find a fist-like hole
in his lounge ceiling and a piece of rusty iron on the floor. His
wife Helen, who was at work when the object landed, said it could have killed
someone standing in its path. "It's come through with the force of a bullet.
The roof wasn't dented, it was a clean-cut hole." Sergeant
Ray Kirby, who is in charge of the case, described the hunk as arch-shaped, 10cm
long and 5cm wide. "To me, it looks like a drumshoe from a brake." The
velocity of its descent suggests it fell from the sky, rather than being thrown. An
aviation expert and a Civil Aviation Authority aeronautical engineer have examined
the object and agree it wasn't an aircraft part. "It's too heavy. Generally
aircraft are made out of alloy," said Hawke's Bay Aviation chief executive
Wattie Solomon, who also ruled out satellite and space station parts for the same
reason.
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