Mystery of New Zealand "UFO" is solved

       A small mysteriouse metal object that crashed through the foor of a house and slammed into the floor in a northern New Zealand town last month flew off a log splitter, police said yesterday.
       Police initially speculated that it fell from a small plane passing over the rural town of Whakatu on the country's North Island on April 16, but aviation officials later said it may have been shot from spinning farm machinery.
       They tracked down a pilot whose aircraft they thought might be responsible and found nothing missing from the plane when checked at a nearby ariport, Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Bill Sommer said at the time.
       "It may have come off some agricultural equipment spinning at pretty high speed and a piece shot off it," he added.
       The object was about 11cm long, 4.5cm wide, weighed 1kg, looked like cast iron and had a shiny, curved surface on top.
       Sergeant Bob Gordon said inquiries had shown the part broke off a log splitter.
       "One of my constables ascertained it was a log splitter that disintegrated," he said. "An unexplained flying object-now it's explanied."