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

From: Jason Utas <meteoritekid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:13:39 -0700
Message-ID: <93aaac890710181713m6aa117ech48287cad92b3445e_at_mail.gmail.com>

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 08:13:39 PM PDT