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Thursday, January 4, 2007

Mysterious metallic object crashes through the roof


FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP Wire) CHRIS NEWMARKER
Associated Press
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Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in eastern New Jersey.

Nobody was injured when the golf-ball sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft.

The rough-surfaced object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police.

"There's some great interest in what we have here," said Lt. Robert Brightman. "It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything like it in my career."

He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but declined to name the other agencies whose help he has enlisted.

Approximately 20 to 50 rock-like objects fall every day over the entire planet, said Carlton Pryor, a professor of astronomy at Rutgers University.

"It's not all that uncommon to have rocks rain down from heaven," said Pryor, who had not seen the object that struck the Monmouth County home. "These are usually rocky or a mixture of rock and metal."

Pryor said laboratory tests would have to be conducted to determine if the object was a meteorite.

Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had punched a hole in the roof of the single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor, and then bounced, sticking into a wall.

The object was heavier than a usual metal object of its size, said Brightman, who added that no radioactivity was detected.

Brightman would not disclose the address of the house or the names of the people who lived there, citing the family's desire to not talk to the media. He would only say that the couple and their adult son live in a township housing development.

Brightman said one man who lives at the home found the object at about 9 p.m. Tuesday after returning from work and hearing from his mother that something had crashed through the roof a few hours earlier.

The Federal Aviation Administration, which sent investigators to the town, did not know where the object came from, said spokeswoman Arlene Murray.

"It's definitely not an aircraft part," she said. "I can't speak beyond that as to what it might be."

In the neighborhood later in the day, residents chatted with each other in the streets about the fallen object, but none said they knew which house had been hit.

Robert Nalven, 55, said nothing this exciting had happened in the six years he's lived in the affluent development. "I'm happy it didn't hit my house," he said.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

A roadside bomb hidden in garbage exploded Tuesday in eastern Baghdad and killed three people, police said.
A roadside bomb hidden in garbage exploded Tuesday in eastern Baghdad and killed three people, police said.


WASHINGTON (HN) -- President Bush is expected to announce his new Iraq strategy in an address to the nation early next week, several sources in Washington told Headline News Tuesday.

Key points of the no-news News release.

  1. "the president has not made any decisions."
  2. "a plan is taking shape"
  3. "getting more detailed"
  4. "on the finer points."
  5. "informal discussions about the year ahead"
However, the sources say he is "driving toward a conclusion" which is as the president puts it
"A plan in the hand is better than no plan.".

Last month, It was reported that Bush was considering sending in as many as 40,000 soldiers.

That would mean increasing troop levels to their highest point in the nearly four-year-old conflict to perhaps as many as 165,000.

Other reports indicated the U.S. troop increase would be closer to 20,000, with additional Iraqi forces making up the remainder of the "surge."

Meanwhile, there are several steps including consultations with Congress and the Iraqi government that will happen before any tactical changes in his Iraq war policy are made, administration officials said.

"Tomorrow, the president will meet with his cabinet to discuss the new Congress and domestic issues," said White House party spokesman Scott Stanzel on Tuesday.

Wednesday night "the president will host a bicameral, bipartisan reception with approximately a dozen members of Congress and their spouses," the White House party spokesman said.

The White House will conduct courtesy calls to members of Congress when Bush devises his final Iraq plan, the official said.

Bush has not yet briefed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on his plan, but is expected to do so before addressing the nation.
However, administration officials have stressed they remain in "constant" contact with Iraqi officials.
Those calls will go out "within a couple of days" before Bush addresses the nation.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

UFO over O'Hare Airport?

Mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport? FAA blames UFO report on weird weather
• Workers, including pilots: Object hovered over airport, shot up through clouds
• FAA not investigating report, which it says was made November 7
• "Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," FAA says

CHICAGO, Illinois (bob) -- -- A group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport in November.

Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon.

The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn't have lights and hovered over an airport terminal before shooting up through the clouds, according to a report in Monday's Chicago Tribune.

A United supervisor had called the control tower at O'Hare, asking "if anyone had spotted a spinning disc-shaped object?". But the controllers didn't see anything, and a preliminary check of radar found nothing out of the ordinary, FAA spokesbot Elizabeth Isham Cory said.

"Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," Cory said. "That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low (cloud) ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, "sometimes you can see funny things."

United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy officially but off the record said company officials don't recall discussing any such incident from November 7.

The FAA is not investigating

At least one O'Hare controller, union official Craig Burzych, was amused by it all.

"To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.

Indonesian budget airliner crashes, 90 killed

Posted on : Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:42:01 GMT | Author : Ravi Chopra
News Category : World


JAKARTA: A passenger jet belonging to Indonesian carrier Adam Skyconnection Airlines carrying 102 passengers crashed in a mountainous area in West Sulawesi province Monday afternoon, killing 90 on board, according to official sources.

The plane was earlier reported missing and the wreckage was spotted by an emergency search plane in the mountainous region near the Polewali town Tuesday morning. Initial teams of rescue operators which reached the scene found at least 90 bodies at the crash site. Police in Polewali town said there were 12 survivors.

The Boeing 737-400 was flying from Subrabaya in East Java to Manado in North Sulawesi when it lost contact with the air traffic control. Authorities said there were thick clouds and strong winds in the area when the plane lost contact.

Among those on board the ill-fated plane were six crew members and 11 children.

The crash is one of the worst air disasters in Indonesia. In September 2005 a Mandala Airlines jet crashed into a residential district in Medan in North Sumatra province, killing 149 people, which included residents of the area.

Adam Air is a budget airline based in Jakarta and is part-owned by Agung Laksono, the speaker of Indonesia's lower house of parliament. It has a fleet of 19 Boeing 737 planes.

An official of the airline said the airline office had received reports that 12 people had survived the crash. They are said to be in a serious condition and efforts are being made to reach them to nearby hospitals. However, the rescue workers are facing bad weather conditions in the area. Besides, the area can be accessed by only two wheelers and there is no communication facility.

The plane crash has occurred just three days after a ferry sank in the Java Sea with more than 600 people on board. Some 400 people are feared killed in the mishap.

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