[meteorite-list] Not a "Peekskill"...- or is it?

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:12:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <259427.46244.qm_at_web33112.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Certainly not a meteorite. It looks like a piece of
machinery, another thing flung out of a machine? I
wonder if there is a metal scrapyard nearby.
Michael Farmer
--- Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure doesn't look like a meteorite...at all....
> Have a look for yourself:
>
> http://www.ksn.com/news/also/10574416.html
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
> On 10/18/07, Mike Groetz <mpg444 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
>
http://www.dailytimesonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/NEWS01/71016045/1002/NEWS01
> >
> > DELAWARE: Aviation officials puzzled about
> so-called
> > UFO that slammed vehicle
> > By Alan J. McCombs
> > The News Journal
> >
> >
> > It didn't come from an airplane.
> >
> > The mystery about the origin of a 16-inch,
> > unidentified falling object that fell from the sky
> > Monday and sliced "like butter" through the hood
> of a
> > parked vehicle deepened Tuesday, after an official
> > with the Federal Aviation Administration announced
> > that whatever it is, it's not a piece of aircraft.
> >
> > At about 4 p.m. Monday, the brownish, hook-shaped
> > piece of metal crashed through the roof of an
> > unoccupied 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander parked at the
> > Happy Harry's drugstore at 536 Main St. in
> Stanton.
> > Its arrival came with a boom that one witness told
> > Mill Creek Fire Company Chief James Howell sounded
> > like an explosion.
> >
> > The SUV's owner, Susan Wilson, said she was
> inside
> > the drugstore at the time. When she returned to
> her
> > car, she found ash and debris on the driver's seat
> and
> > gaping hole in the vehicle's roof. Nestled on the
> rear
> > passenger side floor she found the hot object
> still
> > smoldering from its descent.
> >
> > "The metal was still too hot to handle," Delaware
> > State Police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Whitmarsh said.
> >
> > Once the mysterious object had cooled down, it
> was
> > turned over to the FAA personnel from the
> Philadelphia
> > office. The federal agency was doing some last
> > procedural work on the object Tuesday, but FAA
> > spokesman Jim Peters said he's confident it didn't
> > come from any plane.
> >
> > Wilson, of Wilmington and her fiance Michael
> Roberto
> > have struggled with how
> > to deal with the aftermath of the object falling
> from
> > the sky. Their SUV has been towed to a repair shop
> and
> > the couple is waiting on the bill. Lacking answers
> to
> > what launched the hunk of metal, Wilson's
> insurance
> > has asked her to pay the deductible for the
> damage.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Thu 18 Oct 2007 09:12:45 PM PDT