Giant 'UFO fragment' falls from the sky in Siberia

The Telegraph ^ | 3/22/2012

[bruinbirdman]

The U-shaped object, resembling a silvery dome, is currently under inspection by Russian experts, after being covertly removed under cover of night from the possession of villagers who found it.

After discovering the device on Sunday, locals from the village of Otradnesnky had managed to drag the “UFO fragment” from the thick forest where it had fallen. They attached it onto a trailer and took it through the snow to their village, where local inspectors then examined it before alerting Moscow authorities.

In an official statement, Sergey Bobrov, who found the object, agreed to keep it safe.

But following their stealthy removal of the 200-kilogram metal fragment, police have it under close guard, on orders from unnamed authorities.

The device has not had its provenance confirmed as of yet. However, the object does not come from a rocket or missile or be in any way associated with terrestrial space technology, it has been announced.

“The object found is not related to space technology. A final conclusion can be made after a detailed study of the object by experts,” said Roscosmos, theRussianspace agency.

Experts have also examined the object to determine whether it poses a hazard.

“We measured the radiation level near and inside the object. We found no radiation here,” said Yuri Bornyakov, who heads the rescue service department of the Kuybyshevsky district in the Novosibirsk region.

Part of the fragment is made of ultra-strong titanium, said Valery Vasiliev,

[BigCinBigD]

Captain, the port lateral sensor array just went down.

Run a diagnostic Mr. Worf.

Aye sir...What the hell?

[JRandomFreeper]

Somewhere, some AeroFlot pilot is wondering what the heck fell off of the plane.

/johnny

[Army Air Corps]

Aviation and space ping.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Titanium, eh? Maybe a submarine exploded. :0

[Yosemitest]

Probably a "stage ring" protecting the nozzle from a rocket, my guess, between second and third stage booster,
or bottom cover to a satellite.

[The Cajun]

Capt. Kirk to Spock:
"Scottie got drunk and ejected the damn warp core again"

[Norm Lenhart]

Donnie Darko knew something like this would happen. Nobody listened.

Did YOU listen?
I didn’t listen.
See? Told ya.

But he knew.....
He knew.

[roadcat]

Darn, those muzzie kids are blowing up manhole covers again... a wee bit too much explosives!

[RandallFlagg]

LOL!!!!

[doorgunner69]

Hey, takes a lot of vodka antifreeze in Siberia this time of year.

Who knows what you might find stumbling around in the woods?

[Army Air Corps]

It looks like the first stage “cap” for a rocket (possibly a Zenit).

[tet68]

The amazing thing to me is that part of it
looks like a van. Wierd.

Oh oh, could it be a Tardis?

[tet68]

Strange video at the site, seems to show
something in the sky, then a house with a hole in
the roof, then the big object on the ground.
Looks like the top of a silo.

could it be connected to THIS??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUDNhPXAEBc

[TigersEye]

I hope it didn’t fall on that Siberian mammoth.

[Yosemitest]

Possibly part of this Proton rocket and its Breeze M upper stage from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Or maybe it was off this heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket launched on March 23 from Europe’s Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
On second thought, since it was found March 21, 2012, it couldn't have been the Ariane 5.

[Yosemitest]

Adding date:

The Proton rocket and its Breeze M upper stage from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstanon was launched Feb. 15, 2012.

[Zeppo]

The U-shaped object

All that they need now is to find an F-shaped object and an O-shaped object, and they'll have the complete UFO.

[Norm Lenhart]

...That’s what they WANT you to believe.

Don’t buy it. Mooses bit their sisters. They cannot be trusted. Stuned their Beibers too...

[Rocky]

LOL.

[Sacajaweau]

The van is in the background.

[Sacajaweau]

200 kilograms = 441 lbs

Pretty light for it's size...it looks like it is on its back and there are rollers along the top edge....Part of a helicopter?? Radar?

[Sacajaweau]

Part of a turbine??

[rod1]

One think you know for sure. It is not part of a Chevy Volt. 1) They barely attain enough power to cross and intersection let alone go airborne,2) platicizers arn’t leaking form this thing, and 3) there are no plug in stations for oh......several thousand miles.

[Ken522]

It might be part of the air force’s super secret Aurora aircraft - it could be a part that fell off during one of it’s super-duper secret recon missions!

[6SJ7]

"We'd like our hot tub back, please."

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[kitkat]

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY! Take it to the end of the world and drop it off.

[camle]

april first comming up...just sayin

[Caipirabob]

Siberia must be like “Disney World” to aliens or something...

[Caipirabob]

...and they all drive like it’s Orlando.

[aruanan]

Siberia must be like “Disney World” to aliens or something...

They've got the shy bladder syndrome and Siberia is one of the biggest open areas they can find on earth that has plenty of trees against which to micturate undisturbed and unobserved.

[Hot Tabasco]

Oh great, just like Michigan has become the dumping ground for Canadian trash, it looks like aliens are using our galaxy for theirs........

[Quix]

Thanks for the ping. Looks pretty conventional, to me.

Nothing worth winding up the rabidly hostile-to-the-truth social stars around here, over.

[Covenantor]

Siberia must be like Disney World to aliens or something...

After years of hearing about alien abductions, body probes of human and animal orifices, hybrid babies, and UFO drive-bys, etc. I've started to suspect that the rest of the universe considers our planet as something akin to. NYC's Port Authority Bus Station ( or pick the Inner City Hellhole of your choice).

[tet68]

Ya Know, there’s always someone that has to
come along and destroy my carefully constructed
reality.

Pooh.

[Sacajaweau]

It’s not a Volt BECAUSE: It wasn’t a fireball!!

[Sacajaweau]

I’m sure that by now, someone is laughing their butt off..because they know what it is......but who are they to interfere??

[ryderann]

If it were found in my part of the mountains, there’d be a grain/sugar concoction fermenting in it

[Yardstick]

The van is in the background.

Okay, you might be right about that one. But how do explain that the object is covered in shaving cream?

[Army Air Corps]

The diameter of a Proton is 4.1 metres, and this object looks like it has a diameter less than four metres.

[Sacajaweau]

Looks like some kind of fan unit....Is there a prize if we guess right?

[Norm Lenhart]

Sigh...

Once, FR was filled with critical thinkers.

OK..Facts in evidence: Unknown object falls from sky covered in shaving cream.

Pretty much stands to reason that someone was going to shave it DON’T YA’ THINK????

God, some people.....

[Yosemitest]

I don't know your expertise. I'm just a retired military air traffic controller,
but my brother worked at Kwajalein Island Long Range Radar for several years.
My guess is it came off that rocket lauched Feb 15th, stayed in a decaying orbit for a few days and reentered the atmosphere as filmed.

As you suggested, a Zenit rocket with Phobos-Grunt lifted off on November 6, 2011.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Army Air Corps]

Either way,we both think it is some bit of debris from a rock.

[Army Air Corps]

Rocket, not rock.

[tet68]

If it was from the earth it would have writing on it,
NO STEP, Beware of explosive bolts, Passengers will
please refrain...

[Army Air Corps]

Your brother served on Kwajalein? Man, I knew a guy who was there for a bit in the early 1990s; he said that was the most remote duty assignment he had.

[bruinbirdman]

"My guess is it came off that rocket lauched Feb 15th, . . ."

As good a guess as any.

But, the object was found last Sunday. There is no indication of how long the thing might have been there before it was found. Could have been a year, a . . . . .

yitbos