Mysterious metal falls from sky

In Stanton, Deleware on Monday, a sizzling hot 16-inch piece of metal fell from the sky and tore through a parked SUV;s roof "like butter." The Federal Aviation Administration examined the object and spokesperson Jim Peters claims that it's not part of an airplane. From The News Journal:

It 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 in the drugstore. When she returned to her car, she found ash and debris on the driver's seat and a gaping hole in the roof.

Link (via Fortean Times)

• [Ben]

  My Yardapult!

  IT WORKS!

• [fullerenedream]

  @ Peter Swimm… that’s what I was thinking!

• [Peter Swimm]

  I think Devo wrote a song about this…

• [schmawy]

  hmmm. Maybe ufo guano?

  http://www.greatdreams.com/ufos/ufo_metal.htm

• [waytogo167]

  Two weeks or so ago an American and Russian satellite crashed in to each other. I suspect these chunks of metal are from that.
  There were two separate stories of metal falling through a warehouse in NJ and one through a home in Dallas. Both pieces of metal look the same.

  Hope no one gets hit from this space junk. Can u say lawsuit (not to mention a life changing injury!)

  Twenty years ago a satellite crashed in Australia and flattened a cow!

• [neel]

  I am glad that it hit a SUV…. but if only it had been a Hummer……

• [yurei]

  It’s the 21st Century: do you know where your upper atmospheric energy shield is?

• [Kickyfast]

  She now has an obligation to forge this skymetal into a sword of mighty power.

• [cyenobite]

  I saw this on the local news a few days ago. The reporter mentioned there was a military base nearby. The FAA guy wouldn’t comment.
  Wasn’t there a similar story like this not too long ago where they determined it was a chunk of metal from a leaf/tree chipper?
  Happy Harry’s Sword of mighty power = lol

• [schmawy]

  That’s rich, Kickyfast.

• [Bonnie]

  it’s a beautiful morning for a satellites… falling satellites, that is.

• [Steve Lodefink]

  Maybe there is still some debris in orbit, leftover from that KH-13 that crashed last month.

• [LaHaine]

  I guess this SUV bitch just tried to scam the insurance company.

• [Michael Duff]

  Let’s hope the yellow Camaro finds her before Megatron does.

• [G5Man]

  Where’s Donnie Darko when you need him?

• [DragonPhyre]

  @g5man: Crying, like he always is. Lame Emo-kid… Hope he cuts himself to death.

• [Olorwen]

  Aah, I live right near the Happy Harry’s drugstore where this happened!