NASA confirms object that struck a home came from pallet of batteries intended to burn up in atmosphere
Florida – NASA confirmed on Monday that an object that crashed into a Naples, Florida, home last month was a piece of hardware from the International Space Station that was supposed to burn up on re-entry before reaching the surface of Earth.
Alejandro Otero said a piece of equipment from the International Space Station hit his Naples home, posting photos of the object on X in response to an astronomer who was tracking where and when the equipment would enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
Otero told the astronomer it looked like one of the pieces had missed Fort Myers, and landed inside his home.
“Tore through the roof and went thru 2 floors,” he posted on X, adding that it almost hit his son.
Other posts by Otero included Nest security video footage of the mid-afternoon crash in addition to photos of the cylindrical object.
“It didn’t look like anything I had ever seen before,” Otero told Fox News. “It looked like it had been burned up and scraped, and it was a heavy piece for its size.”
NASA was contacted about the object and launched an investigation into identifying it and determining the cause of the crash.
