Mystery space debris falls on village sparking ‘end of the world’ fears
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Villagers were shocked to see a 500kg ring of partially burnt metal fall from the sky in Kenya. The space debris, spanning roughly two metres in diameter, landed with a loud bang in Mukuku, Makueni county, between the capital Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa.
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No buildings were damaged and no one was injured, but it terrified villagerswho saw or heard it fall on December 30. One woman told Tuko news website: ‘I was going about my day when we heard this loud bang that we could not decipher. The metallic object then fell and made another sound, frightening us.’.
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Another said: ‘I heard what I thought was an explosion when it landed here! Du! du! du! I asked, “Is the world ending today?”. ‘I was shocked because it was so sunny with no hint of rain. I hope our leaders will tell us what this object was and why it fell here.’.
The Kenyan publication reported a third man as saying: ‘As a community, we are really worried. What if this fell in the homestead of one of us?. ‘Are there companies up there in the sky that made this thing fall on us? We really need answers.’. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video.
Up Next. Its origin is yet to be determined, but Kenya’s Space Agency believes it to be the separation ring of a launch rocket. A statement says: ‘Such objects are usually designed to burn up as they re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas, such as the oceans.’.
