The farmer, named James Stirton, found the odd-shaped ball last 2007 on his 40,000 hectare property, about 800 kilometers west of the northern Queensland state capital of Brisbane. But Stirton only started inquiring the origin of the ball of metal in the past week. Stirton stated:
“I was riding out to check some cattle and I came around the corner and there it was in a paddock. I know a lot of sheep and cattle but I don’t know much about satellites. But I would say it is a fuel cell off some stage of a rocket.”
Stirton said the object was hollow and covered in a carbon-fiber material and he contacted some US-based aerospace companies to try to find out what the object really is.
In 1979, large parts of the Skylab space station fell to earth near a tiny outback town in
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