Mysterious Object Crashes Through Florida House, Possibly from ISS

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Mysterious Object Crashes Through Florida House, Possibly from ISS
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A mysterious object that crashed through a house in Florida is believed to be debris from the International Space Station (ISS). The object, a cylindrical tube weighing nearly 2 pounds, crashed through the roof and floors of a home in Naples, Florida. The origins of the object are yet to be determined, but it is suspected to be one of the nine drained batteries discarded from the ISS. The debris may have survived reentry after being jettisoned from the space station in 2021.

A mysterious object that came crashing through a house in Florida is possibly debris from the International Space Station ( ISS ). The cylindrical tube was a few inches long and weighed nearly 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms). It crashed through the roof and both floors of Alejandro Otero's home in Naples , Florida , at 2:34 pm local on March 8, startling his son. The origins of the object have yet to be determined, but Otero thinks it's likely one of nine drained batteries discarded from the ISS .

Earlier the same day, a large cargo pallet carrying the batteries and belonging to the Japanese space agency JAXA re-entered Earth's atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico. Jettisoned from the space station in 2021, the debris was expected to burn up in the atmosphere, one may have survived reentry. "Looks like one of those pieces missed Ft Myers and landed in my house in Naples," Otero wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to a post describing the jettisoned palle

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