A large metallic ring suspected to be debris from space crashed in southern Kenya’s Mukuku village on Monday, the country’s space agency said. Villagers discovered the “red and hot” ring suspected to be rocket parts at about 3 pm local time on 30 December, the Kenyan Space Agency said, adding that it “secured the area and retrieved the debris“.
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“The agency wishes to clarify that the object, a metallic ring measuring 2.5 metres in diameter and weighing about 500kg, is a fragment of a space object,” the agency said in a statement. Rocket debris is designed to burn up during re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas like the oceans.
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