A mysterious object, suspected to be space debris, crashed into a Florida family’s home, leaving them in shock and seeking answers.”It used to have a cylindrical shape and you can tell by the shape of the top that it traveled in this direction through the atmosphere where it burned, creating this burn and melting the metal over in this direction,” said Alejandro Otero, the Naples homeowner.Otero believes the object could be either space junk or a meteorite. “It’s either space junk or a space meteorite. It’s 50/50,” he stated.Otero’s son was home alone at the time of the incident and heard a loud bang. “It was a tremendous sound. And it almost hit my son. He was two rooms over and heard it all,” Otero recalled.After discovering the object, Otero contacted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. In a video, he expressed his disbelief, “Is it heavy? Holy Cow. Are you kidding me,” as his son pulled the object out of a hole in the floor. Otero was in shock after the incident. “I was shaking, I was completely in disbelief. What are the chances of something landing on my house with such force to cause so much damage? And you know, totally, you know, I’m super grateful that nobody got hurt,” he said.Otero suspects the object could be debris from the International Space Station (ISS).NASA confirmed it was from the ISS on Monday.”The International Space Station will perform a detailed investigation of the jettison and re-entry analysis to determine the cause of the debris survival and to update modeling and analysis, as needed,” NASA said.The debris was a stanchion from their flight support equipment, weighing in at 1.6 pounds and is 4 inches tall and 1.6 inches in diameter.Watch the video above for more on this story.
A mysterious object, suspected to be space debris, crashed into a Florida family’s home, leaving them in shock and seeking answers.
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“It used to have a cylindrical shape and you can tell by the shape of the top that it traveled in this direction through the atmosphere where it burned, creating this burn and melting the metal over in this direction,” said Alejandro Otero, the Naples homeowner.
Otero believes the object could be either space junk or a meteorite.
“It’s either space junk or a space meteorite. It’s 50/50,” he stated.
Otero’s son was home alone at the time of the incident and heard a loud bang.
“It was a tremendous sound. And it almost hit my son. He was two rooms over and heard it all,” Otero recalled.
After discovering the object, Otero contacted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.
In a video, he expressed his disbelief, “Is it heavy? Holy Cow. Are you kidding me,” as his son pulled the object out of a hole in the floor.
Otero was in shock after the incident.
“I was shaking, I was completely in disbelief. What are the chances of something landing on my house with such force to cause so much damage? And you know, totally, you know, I’m super grateful that nobody got hurt,” he said.
Otero suspects the object could be debris from the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA confirmed it was from the ISS on Monday.
“The International Space Station will perform a detailed investigation of the jettison and re-entry analysis to determine the cause of the debris survival and to update modeling and analysis, as needed,” NASA said.
The debris was a stanchion from their flight support equipment, weighing in at 1.6 pounds and is 4 inches tall and 1.6 inches in diameter.
Watch the video above for more on this story.
