More than 1,000 pounds of space debris reportedly landed in a village in Kenya

Kenyan officials said on Wednesday they were investigating pieces of metal believed to be from a missile that landed in a village in the country’s south.

The issue of space debris has risen with the increase in space traffic.

This was reported by the Kenya Space Agency (KSA). At around 3pm local time on December 30, a metal ring object with a diameter of about 8 feet and a weight of about 1,100 pounds fell in Mukuku village in Makueni County.

The KSA, working with other agencies and local authorities, “secured the area and removed the debris, which is now in the custody of the Agency for further investigation.”

It was stated that “preliminary assessments indicate that the fallen object is intended to burn up after re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere or fall on uninhabited areas.”

“This is an isolated case that the agency will investigate and resolve,” KSA said.

He said the facility was not a threat to public safety and praised nearby villagers who immediately alerted the authorities.

KSA said they were working to determine the origin of the piece.

Past examples of man-made space debris that have hit Earth include part of the SpaceX Dragon capsule. Australian sheep farm in 2022.

And earlier this year NASA faces a lawsuit From an American family whose home in Florida was hit by a falling piece of metal. Cylindrical object tore up the house Alejandro Otero in Naples on March 8. He told CBS Fort Meyers, Fla., affiliate WINK-TV that his son called him about the crashed facility while he was on vacation.

“I was shaking. I was in complete disbelief. How could something come down on my house with that much force and that much damage,” Otero said. “I’m just so thankful no one was hurt.”

China has also been criticized by NASA for allowing its giant Long March rockets to fall to Earth after orbit.

Last February, the European Space Agency launched a satellite weighing as much as an adult male rhinoceros Uncontrolled return to EarthIt re-enters the atmosphere in the North Pacific between Alaska and Hawaii.