200kg space debris falls from the sky in Siberia village

An unidentified space object is drawing the attention of the scientific community and residents of a remote village located in Siberia. The device, which resembles the lid of a giant trash can, weighs 200 kilograms and fell from the sky without explanation, locals said.

Russian space experts who have analyzed the piece do not know where the origin of the artifact is. According to experts, the fragment does not appear to be a rocket or a missile, just as it could not yet be compared with any debris from some terrestrial space technology.

The metal object, which is about 2 meters high, is under the guard of the Russian police and space agency. He was found last December near a village called Otradnensky, located 2, 000 km east of Moscow.

“We measured radiation levels in and around the object and nothing was found, ” explains Yuri Bornyakov, head of the Kuibyshevski rescue department. Initial theories that the piece was part of a space rocket or satellite have already been discarded.