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Thames Hospital plagued by Waikato DHB cyber-attack, P3 ISSN 2703-5700 NOW PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Issue 022 May 26, 2021 C 100 C 0 MFiery 25 M 0 object Y 0 Y 0 K 0 K 100 Moanataiari School’s security camera caught the moment an unknown flying object crash-landed Font :: Times (modified) on the school field. hits school Photo: SUPPLIED By KELLEY TANTAU Brock said. “And we’ll probably never see anything like it again in t 9:19pm on a Friday night, the rest of our lives.” Asomething mysterious hap- University of Otago masters stu- pened at Moanataiari School. dent Daniel Burgin, who specialises Footage captured on surveillance in martian meteorites, told The Pro- cameras showed an object falling file there were “strange” elements to from the sky, ablaze. the object that seemingly fell from It crash-landed on the school’s the sky. field and burned for roughly one On one hand, it was unlikely the minute. thin material of the metal chain Witnesses reported hearing a could have survived the re-entry “whipping” noise, followed by a into earth’s atmosphere if it came loud bang. from outer space. On the other “It sounded like a car crash. I hand, it was “a rare feat” for some- ran out back and there was a really thing to get so hot to burn the way bright glow coming from the school it did. field,” nearby resident Rita Moore “If it was the atmosphere that told The Profile. heated it up that much, it would’ve By daybreak on Monday, there had to have come from space, be- was another development. cause stuff that is orbiting around A thin chain, with a small hoop at the earth is going tens of thousands one end, sat between a charred strip of kilometres per hour,” he said. of grass. “Say if someone dropped some- Teachers began investigating. thing out of a plane, you wouldn’t Rumours started to swirl. get anything like that; it would just Was this the work of Men in fall.” Black or extraterrestrials? Was it Mr Burgin said NASA tracked Josh Dennis, left, Lilly-Anne Sands-Gage, Jacob Kidd, and Liam Corbett with the burnt grass left behind. Photo: KELLEY TANTAU the remnants of a Chinese rocket or around 500,000 pieces of space The school has done its own re- The school will be sending a frag- Despite this, it was “worth it” for space junk? junk orbiting the earth that were search into the mysterious crash- ment of the remains to the university, the school to seek further explana- Only one thing was certain: the larger than the size of a marble. landing, with some pupils taking where Mr Burgin will analyse it us- tion. blackened strip of school field had However, there were millions of compasses out onto the field to de- ing a scanning electron microscope. “The odds of ever seeing some- piqued the interest of staff and pu- other smaller pieces orbiting at dif- termine the object’s trajectory. He said the school could rule out thing fall from space is so incredibly pils, and they were determined to ferent heights and directions. Wayne Howes’ Room 9 students the debris coming from the Chinese tiny, so it’d be bloody awesome if it get to the bottom of it. “We’ve been putting stuff up have also drawn pictures and written rocket that was launched on April was [from there],” he said. “There’s no health and safety ac- there since the 60s, so there is a fair news reports about the enigma, with 29. The entirety of it burned up and “And I would highly recommend tion plan to cater to something like bit, but for it to fall back down to some children now having aspira- landed somewhere in the Indian anyone wanting to go into space to this,” Moanataiari principal David earth is pretty rare.” tions to become astronauts. Ocean, he said. follow their dreams.” Come check out Snowden’s our Ne Need a rubbish bin? - MENSWEAR - w Season stock Proudly locally owned and operated for over 50 years With a range of size options – we’ve got you covered! Images not to scale. 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Judith said if the new mod- 22,500 readers in Hauraki Plains, Paeroa, Thames, Thames Coast auraki District Council faced el went ahead, Positive Paeroa will and surrounding rural areas, Hstrong opposition at its long “cease to exist” come June. plus bulk distribution around the term plan (LTP) hearings last Meanwhile, also at the hear- Coromandel Peninsula. week to its proposal to cut funding ing, Hauraki Plains College envi- to town promoters and employ its ronmental leaders Morgan Har- NEWS/EDITORIAL own staff member instead. ris and Sophie Scott suggested Editor Teresa Ramsey Following a joint submission council converse with its younger Ph 0204 0944 853 by the district’s three town pro- generation by visiting schools, Email: [email protected] motion organisations - Go Waihi, because its social media strategy Reporter Kelley Tantau Positive Paeroa, and Positively didn’t seem to be working. 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