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UFO. India

ID #1592809759
Added Mon, 22/06/2020
Author July N.
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Initial data

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Incident date: 
19.06.2020 07:00
Location: 
Санчор Rajasthan
India

As reported by Indian online outlookindia.com on Friday morning, June 19, in the city Sanchor in Jalor district in Rajasthan, about 530 km from state capital Jaipur has fallen “meteorite”. According to local residents, who first reported the incident to the police and the local administration, some object fell from the sky, issuing a terrible explosive sound.

"I stood on the balcony of his house when he saw something falling from the sky. The first thought that came to my mind was the thought bomb. Soon, when this thing fell to the ground, there was a terrible explosive sound. In the fall, the district began to panic. Most people in my village woke up from the sound, and the children were scared," said Suresh Desai, a resident of Sanchore and witness.

According to Indian sources, the fall of “meteorite” was accompanied by “thermal effect that led to the formation of pits in the ground to a depth of one foot”.

Drop the “meteorite” happened about 7 o'clock in the morning. The explosion was heard at a distance of two kilometers and the place immediately went to the police with weights and the find immediately weighed. Then the area of the local Roswell fenced beautiful ribbons, and “meteorite” were arrested and taken to the police station.

It is seen that the meteor is unusual because iron meteorites look almost always the case that they are very difficult to distinguish from the surrounding rocks. Sometimes, if the stone is “fresh”, it is no rust and it looks more brilliant.

However, such an unusual and sleek form as the glands from India – a rarity for iron meteorites exceptional and suggests that this is not a meteorite, and a fragment of any of the aircraft.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»

Original news

In an unusual incident, a meteorite-like object weighing around 2.78 kg fell from the sky on Friday morning in Sanchore town in Jalore district of Rajasthan, approximately 530 kilometers from state capital Jaipur.

According to the locals who were the first ones to inform the police and local administration, an explosive sound was heard when the object fell from the sky. "I was standing on the balcony of my house when I saw something falling from the sky. The first thought that came to my mind was it being a bomb. Within no time, as it fell on the ground, an explosion-like sound was occurred. The fall resulted in panic in the area. Most of the people in my colony woke up to this sound and children were scared,” Suresh Desai, a resident of Sanchor and an eye-witness told Outlook.

According to Desai, the object fell with such force and heat that it resulted in the formation of a one-foot deep pit in the ground. The fall of the meteorite took place in an open field around 7 AM, in the outskirts of Sanchor. 

According to the local administration, an explosion was heard upto the range of two kilometers. The local administration, police and Information bureau rushed to the spot in the morning. 

"I received a phone call from the locals, claiming that a rock solid object has fallen from the sky. After reaching the spot, we saw a heavy rock like structure on the ground. The object was emitting heat so we advised locals to stay away. After it cooled down, we took it for basic examination. We found that it weighed around 2.78 kg," Bhupendra Yadav, Sub-divisional magistrate of Sanchore, told Outlook.

As per Yadav, a local jeweller, who examined it in presence of police and administration, claimed that the object has metallic properties of Germanium, Platinium, Nickel and Iron with the major share.

The local administration has contacted the teams of geologists at Geographical Survey of India's Ahmedabad and Jaipur office, who will be examining it further. The object is currently at Sanchor police station. 

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Space debris

By space junk refers to all manmade objects and their fragments in space, which is already faulty, not functioning, and will never be able to serve any useful purpose. Currently in low earth orbits up to altitudes of about 2000 km is, according to various estimates, about 220 thousand (300 thousand according to the UN office for outer space Affairs, October 2009) man-made objects weighing up to 5000 tons.
In the case of UFOs, it is possible to expand this list lost cosmonauts things (tools, etc.).

Meteor

Meteor, "shooting star" is a phenomenon that occurs when small meteor bodies (for example, fragments of comets or asteroids) burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon of greater intensity (brighter than magnitude -4) it's called a fireball.

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