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SPACE BALL RECOVERED NASA HAS BEEN ALERTED BY AUTHORITIES

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Uploaded by on Dec 23, 2011

A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency.
The hollow ball with a circumference of 1.1 metres (43 inches) was found near a village in the north of the country some 750 kilometres (480 miles) from the capital Windhoek, according to police forensics director Paul Ludik.
Locals had heard several small explosions a few days beforehand, he said.
With a diameter of 35 centimetres (14 inches), the ball has a rough surface and appears to consist of "two halves welded together".
It was made of a "metal alloy known to man" and weighed six kilogrammes (13 pounds), said Ludik.
It was found 18 metres from its landing spot, a hole 33 centimetres deep and 3.8 meters wide.
Several such balls have dropped in southern Africa, Australia and Latin America in the past twenty years, authorities found in an Internet search.
The sphere was discovered mid-November, but authorities first did tests before announcing the find.

Police deputy inspector general Vilho Hifindaka concluded the sphere did not pose any danger.

"It is not an explosive device, but rather hollow, but we had to investigate all this first," he said.

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  • Excellent, thanks for sharing. Australia

  • @verdal04  Thanks, please stay alert and keep us posted if any other space balls show up down under.

  • Is this a sign that we will see more and more SPACE BALLS falling over us?

  • This is the latest on SPACE BALLS falling from above. African authorities have notified NASA about the strange recovered SPACE BALL.

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  • Phobos-grunt main propulsion units...

  • its a pokeball stupid

  • a similar ball was dropped in brazil!

    watch?&v=mVQ6-A-8dMY

  • its a lemon

  • Space man balls :D

  • @luckymauro its the sayains...

  • sooo are these spaceballs used for giving space tea bags to ppl places and things?

  • I' ve seen articles on these before. They're tanks of some sort from satellites. Nothing sinister or alien.

  • lucky why dont you ever get more info on these things i think your a bullshitter friend

  • egg?

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