[span id="article"][span id="intelliTXT"] [font color="#000000" face="Verdana,Sans-serif" size="2"]Metal Chunk Crashes Through N.J. Roof[/font][font size="1"]
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[/span][/span][/font][/font][/span] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"][span id="article"][div class="KonaBody"][span id="intelliTXT"] BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) - A hunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a home has NASA, Federal Aviation Administration and New Jersey Transit officials scratching their heads.[/p] The man who lives in the house was watching television Tuesday when he heard a crash and saw a cloud of dust. In the next room, he found a hunk of gray metal, 3 1/2 inches by 5 inches, with two hexagonal holes in it.[/p] Experts say it's manmade, but nobody can say where it might have come from.[/p] New Jersey Transit has railroad tracks about 100 feet from the house, but spokesman Dan Stessel said the object isn't something that would have flown off a train.[/p] FAA officials said it wasn't a part that would have fallen from a plane headed into or out of nearby Newark Liberty International Airport.[/p] "It doesn't look very 'space-y,'" said Henry Kline, a spokesman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "It's obviously made for something ... But we wouldn't know what to do with it."[/p] U.S. Air Force Major Costas Leonidou at the Pentagon said he couldn't identify the fallen object, either. "It could be Air Force, Navy, Marines, commercial. It could be anything," he said.[/p] Authorities in Bayonne, as well as the home's residents, just want to get it identified.[/p] "It belongs to somebody," Police Director Mark Smith said.
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