Bay's
unwelcome flying object still unidentified stuff.co.nz Mystery
remains about an unidentified flying object that smashed through the roof of a
house in Hawke's Bay with the force of a bullet. The
rusty slab of metal, the length of a pen and with the word SELEY engraved on it,
has everyone stumped - from residents at the small settlement of Whakatu near
Hastings where the discovery was made, to police, aviation investigators and Dominion
Post readers. The
one-kilogram object took a softball-sized chunk out of the roof of George and
Helen Cunningham's home on Wednesday afternoon. Mr
Cunningham spotted the hole in his lounge ceiling about 5pm. "He
wasn't sure what it was, he actually thought I had put vacuum cleaner through
the roof to begin with," Mrs Cunningham said. "That
was his first thought, till he had a look and could see outside." They
thought it had come from a plane. "I
even had a rug down on top of the carpet and it's made a hole in that, right through,
like a bullet hole - that's the force it came through." But now the couple,
along with their insurance company, remain mystified. "We've
been trying to work it out, but there's nothing we can think of, we have houses
all around us, I just don't know." Hastings
police are just as puzzled. Senior
Sergeant Ross Smith said it was a very strange, one-off occurrence and though
it appeared to be part of machinery it was still deemed a "UFO". "God
only knows how it's ended up going through a roof, I really don't know." It
was initially thought to be part of a small plane flying from Napier to Wellington.
But an aeronautical engineer and Civil Aviation have determined it is not part
of an aircraft. Readers
commenting on dompost.co.nz have suggested the UFO might be: A
brake pad from a vehicle's disc brake. A
brace from a logging truck. A
component from a tractor mower. A
practical joke. Proof
of a "big cover-up" about UFOs.
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