Hot Piece Of Metal Falls From Sky, Into Car (What is it?)

Look for something like this.

Did she have any pissed off ex boyfriends or husband(s)?

reply to post by psi3000


I missed your post too


I don't get the hot part. Nothing in the picture to show it.

I think it is likely something dropped into a piece of equipment by accident. Anybody running a wood chipper and doing fall cleanup in the area?

[edit on 10/17/2007 by Blaine91555]

The explosives tamping rod is not as likely perhaps as one might think. Normal shots are poured slurry or cordite. Not a good idea to tamp that with a metal rod - wood is what seems to used. The metal rod is apt to develop static charge as one tamps. Most common shot holes for rock are inch and half and larger. Smallest non-cord or ribbon cordite I've seen is about an inch diameter.

Rods from God seems a possibility. Such a kinetic hit from orbit would be larger? Maybe they'd have noticed if it was a tungsten rod... it'd be heavy. Who knows - it's not publicly available data? Don't know.

I'm leaning with the work site for now as the source.

Cheers,

Vic

Ok scratch the train theory. I thought this was a different happy harry's. Ill go check it out on my way to the Christiana Mall sometime and get back to you guys.

Ohh, just thought about this. There is a rock/gravel/sheetrock dealer right across the street. I bet that place is a rock quarry that is mined regularly.

And no, I don't think she had any pissed off boyfriends. I believe she has been going out with Mike for at least 5 years.

maybe the air force is up there in some top secret weather balloon and some decided to say "hey guys watch this im going to throw this piece of metal out where no one can see us and see if i hit anything...."

What will happen when this woman starts seeing a giant rabbit named Frank, who tells her that the world will end at a certain date?

yeh, ok, so lets talk about someones relative who is on your forum and trying to give you info like that.....

This kind of thing happens in the Twilight Zone.
It is a piece of a ship that got caught in the Philadephia Experiments, now returning, out of place. It is hot at it's core, emitting outward, giving a smoldering effect, but not hot enough externally to be combustable.

I don't know what this is, but......

it probably was just a matrix glitch.

[edit on 18-10-2007 by TheoOne]

i hate SUVs too but damn..hahaha nah but dang that looks crazy i thought it was a snake at first hahaha

anyway how freakythough now this is going to be another thing i fear while driving

if a jelly bean falls from the sky it would make a hole in her car i think thats a fact or is it not a steel metal from the sky that would go straight through for sure even if its not hot

Hmm looks to me like a hoist hook used on a flat bed car hauler. Its the right weight and size, they are usually high carbon, so breakage is very possible. And usually they are stowed by slipping over the end of the bed and then the hoist is run to pull the cables tight. Its not to hard to imagine the operator pulled it a little to tight, bowed the bed a bit, and while bouncing down the road it poped. This would release the bowed truck bed and fire the chunk of hook off like a canon...sorry i really liked the lazy greys idea better, but this one fits

i was going to mention a hay hook as well.
one end seems to be machined(at least to me) into a dull point. the other end is not but from the low quality photo, it looks to me like the other end was snapped off.
the metal also looks 'charred' to me.

barring some alien metal we have never seen, it looks like a 'tool' of some sort.

when i moved into my house, i was looking around the garage and i found these metal 'things'..they were old as hell, heavy and they looked like a torture device to me...i could not figure out what they were.

gave em to my dad and law and he gave em to his bro in law in kentucky...turns out, it was a 'ladder rack or some damn thing....hook one to each ladder and then make a scaffold.

this damn thing could be anything.
looks to me like part(almost all) of some sort of tool/stabber etc...

I have no idea what it is, but that dog in your avatar is so adorable! Sorry if this is a pointless post.

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We came to the decision that a wild boar had somehow been pitched into a jet engine.

Hmm, interesting, but Rush Limbaugh is still on-the-air.

I believe the item is from Earth and, as previously indicated, is probably a result of some explosion. I doubt any space debris would survive reentry and retain this shape. Plus, it doesn't look like anything useful from an atmospheric aircraft and, even if it had fallen from one, I doubt it would have heated up enough to still be smoldering when firefighters arrived - just from its "fall from the sky."

A transformer explosion or something similar seems to be more plausible.

namaste

Originally posted by jsobecky
Cyber-trash? Part of a defunct satellite? The heat was from it's journey through the atmosphere, possibly.

Exactly what this is Satellite trash, there are thousands of pieces of old test probes, satellite, etc orbiting the earth.

It's amazing we don't see more of this.

Originally posted by JacKatMtn

Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
well, then too, they're probably not assigning a lot of people to it, so I don't know if I'd attribute a lot of meaning to the time delay. If they don't think it came from an airplane they won't be very interested in the more mundane explanations.

Then I would ask If it isn't from an aircraft and thus the FAA isn't concerned with it, Why does the FAA have the item?

If they have other things to deal with, why not give up the piece of metal to some other researchers who might be interested in what it is?

I would like an answer.

Because they're evaluating it to see if it came from an aircraft.

And if they don't think it came from an aircraft, then they won't be very interested in the other more mundane explanations. Because if it fell off of an aircraft, and it's one of the more useful bits, then they'll really be interested in which plane it was from. And if it's something less than crashworthy, they'll be looking to fine the airline it came from. Maybe find out if this might be close to happening on other aircraft of the same type.

Because they're the FAA, and it's all they're interested in.

If they wanted to see if it was from an alien space craft, it wouldn't be the FAA examining it.

Originally posted by psi3000
Ok scratch the train theory. I thought this was a different happy harry's. Ill go check it out on my way to the Christiana Mall sometime and get back to you guys.

If that is your sister-in-law, then you should be able to get the full story from her and find out if the car is being repaired etc.

Also if you are investigating the construction site, you might be able to get some info from workers there. They would probably remember and incident from Monday. You might even get some pics there as well.

Nothing new on the news about the piece of metal, but alot of good ideas and effort by the members here in trying to get answers while we wait on the FAA.