Photo Credit: Kathy Curran

A strange and unidentified solid chunk of metal came crashing through the roof of Michael’s Wholesale Furniture Distributors in Plymouth County. Upon entering the office, the staff was greeted by the mess and chaos the small object had caused when it plummeted from the sky and tore a whole through the roof of the warehouse.

Not being sure what it was or where it had come from, the staff called in the local police, who then got on the phone with the FAA.

“We have no idea what it is. At this point, we can only speculate. No clue,” said Plymouth police Capt. John Rogers. “This would have had to come through with some significant force or velocity to get through the warehouse roof and cause damage.”

If I was a betting man, I’d say that this is some old “space junk” like the newscaster so eloquently put it. Honestly, I think most foreign objects that come into our atmosphere don’t make it too far. They burn up and disintegrate before hitting earth. So then, to what could this mysterious piece belong to?

 

Full source: CBS Boston

PLYMOUTH (CBS) – A solid piece of metal crashed through the roof of a Plymouth furniture warehouse on Thursday. Investigators say the debris appears to have fallen from the sky, but it did not come from a plane.

Michael Facchini, the owner of Michael’s Wholesale Furniture Distributors found the 3-5 lb. chunk of debris on the floor of his building off Camelot Drive.

Facchini also discovered a hole in the roof of the building.

“Looked up, the ceiling had a big hole,” he told WBZ-TV’s Kathy Curran. “One of the workers came by and noticed the office was a mess and asked if I knew what happened then I looked and saw metal and figured it came from high above.”

No one was hurt by the falling debris.

The FAA has sent an inspector to Plymouth to help investigators.

They are now tasked with trying to figure out where the metal came from.