Lembaran logam berwarna hitam jatuh dari langit di rumah salah satu penduduk MountLake Terrace, Washington. Apakah hanya bagian dari serpihan pesawat yang kebetulan melintas dan terjatuh ?
Berikut ini berita yang dilansir dari KomoNews.com 22 Febuary 2011
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash. -- Is it a UFO or a loose part of a plane?
A Snohomish County woman sure would like to know after a mystery chunk of metal fell from the sky and hit her home.
The piece of metal fell from the sky, bounced of Theresa Kauffman's roof and landed on her back deck.
"It was hauling when it came," she said. "If somebody would have been out here when it came, it probably would have killed them."
What fell was a small, light metal panel about the size of a washing machine door. It's black on one side, white on the other with a couple of dings from the impact.
And it made a sound which, as Kauffman puts it, sounded like "Woo woo woo!"
Now Kauffman wants to know what it is and where it came from.
"This is the strangest thing that's happened to me," she said. "I've never had anything this weird happen like this before."
Kauffman says she heard the thing coming about 15 seconds before it hit. So she's sure someone didn't just throw it, and it didn't fall out of a tree. And it didn't fall off of a truck, either, as Kauffman doesn't live by the highway.
But she does live on a hill.
Her best guess? "I thought it was off an airplane. That was my thought," she said.
Kauffman gave the mystery piece to officials at Paine Field. But they have no idea what it is.
Flight records show only one plane flew over Kauffman's home, and the pilots found no parts missing.
And the piece of metal features no rivets or serial numbers.
So could it be what hit Kauffman's roof came from a galaxy far far away, a close encounter from outer space?
"Ooh, I don't know," she said.
Kauffman says she's already received a couple calls from UFO fanatics. But the incident hasn't made a believer out of her.
"I don't really believe in them," she said. "Somebody's got to be responsible for it. It doesn't rain sheet metal, you know."
So the mystery lives on, at least for now.
A Snohomish County woman sure would like to know after a mystery chunk of metal fell from the sky and hit her home.
The piece of metal fell from the sky, bounced of Theresa Kauffman's roof and landed on her back deck.
"It was hauling when it came," she said. "If somebody would have been out here when it came, it probably would have killed them."
What fell was a small, light metal panel about the size of a washing machine door. It's black on one side, white on the other with a couple of dings from the impact.
And it made a sound which, as Kauffman puts it, sounded like "Woo woo woo!"
Now Kauffman wants to know what it is and where it came from.
"This is the strangest thing that's happened to me," she said. "I've never had anything this weird happen like this before."
Kauffman says she heard the thing coming about 15 seconds before it hit. So she's sure someone didn't just throw it, and it didn't fall out of a tree. And it didn't fall off of a truck, either, as Kauffman doesn't live by the highway.
But she does live on a hill.
Her best guess? "I thought it was off an airplane. That was my thought," she said.
Kauffman gave the mystery piece to officials at Paine Field. But they have no idea what it is.
Flight records show only one plane flew over Kauffman's home, and the pilots found no parts missing.
And the piece of metal features no rivets or serial numbers.
So could it be what hit Kauffman's roof came from a galaxy far far away, a close encounter from outer space?
"Ooh, I don't know," she said.
Kauffman says she's already received a couple calls from UFO fanatics. But the incident hasn't made a believer out of her.
"I don't really believe in them," she said. "Somebody's got to be responsible for it. It doesn't rain sheet metal, you know."
So the mystery lives on, at least for now.
Apa sebenarnya yang jatuh dari langit MountLake Terrace, Washington?
Menurut Theresa Kauffman, yang rumahnya terkena lembaran logam yang jatuh kemungkinan adalah bagian panel dari pesawat terbang. Setelah dikonfirmasi oleh pihak petugas penerbangan setempat, ternyata hanya ada 1 pesawat yang melakukan penerbangan di sekitar area rumah Theresa.
Akan tetapi, ketika diperiksa dan bertanya pada pilot yang menerbangkan pesawat itu, mereka mengatakan bahwa tidak ada satupun bagian dari pesawatnya yang terlepas. Pesawat sedang dalam kondisi yang baik.
Dan yang lebih misterius lagi, disekeliling logam tidak ditemukan adanya tanda-tanda bekas paku atau baut / sekrup.
Hal ini tentu saja membuat para UFO believer menjadi semangat untuk berspekulasi akan asal-usul objek logam tersebut.
Yang jadi pertanyaan, jika benar lembaran itu adalah potongan dari pesawat, bagian pesawat manakah yang bisa 'terlepas' menurut anda ?
Bagian - bagian pesawat terbang:
Cockpit tempat pilot mengendalikan dan mengontrol pesawat
Fulsage merupakan badan atau rangka pesawat
Jet engine (mesin jet) yang berfungsi sebagai pembangkit tenaga yang akan mendorong pesawat
Elevator berfungsi untuk menaik dan menurunkan hidung pesawat
Rudder berfungsi untuk membelokan pesawat kekanan dan kekiri
Stabilizer berfungsi untuk menjaga pesawat stabil terhadap arah angin
Elevator berfungsi untuk menaik dan menurunkan hidung pesawat
Rudder berfungsi untuk membelokan pesawat kekanan dan kekiri
Stabilizer berfungsi untuk menjaga pesawat stabil terhadap arah angin
Wing (sayap) berfungsi untuk membagnkitkan gaya angkat. Sayap pesawat terdiri dari beberapa bagian berikut
Spoiler (9) berbentuk plat kecil yang terletak di sayap pesawat berfungsi untuk mengurangi gaya angkat pesawat sesaat setelah mendarat.
Aileron (2,3) berfungsi untuk membuat gerakan memutar
Flaps (4) berfungsi untuk menambah gaya angkat saat pesawat dalam kecepatan rendah
Slats (6) berfungsi untuk memperluas area sayap pesawat agar gaya angkat pesawat bertambah
Apa anda bisa beritahu saya bagian mana itu ?
(hawkson)
(komonews.com , iptek.com)
apa mungkin itu adalah bagian dari pesawat antartika ataw bgian salelit yg lepas. warnanya hitam akibat terbakar ketika memasuki atmosfer bumi.