A large metallic ball has
fallen from the heavens and landed in a remote region of Namibia, spurring a
lot of speculation about its origins and spurring local authorities to get NASA
and the European Space Agency on the horn.
No
one is sure where the hollow metallic object came from, but it definitely came
down hard--it was found 60 feet away from its landing site, a hole more than a
foot deep and 12 feet across.
Made
of a “metal alloy known to man,” the 13-pound ball is about 43 inches in
circumference and landed roughly 480 miles from the Namibian capital of
Windhoek.
And
it turns out it’s not alone. Apparently several similar objects have fallen
across the southern hemisphere (in Australia and Latin America as well as
elsewhere in Africa) over the past couple of decades.
So
far, it has not exploded, hatched, or started to glow with a faint, eerie white
light. Nor has anyone descended from the sky looking for it.
{AFP}
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