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Burning “UFO“ falls from sky, Officials cite Italian satellite debris
04/29/2003
Indonesia - Villagers living in a remote part of Indonesia“s Southeast Sulawesi province reported on Tuesday seeing something like a "burning pencil" falling from the sky. Oficials believe it“s the first sighting of Italian satellite debris crashing to Earth.

Amiruddin, administrative officer of Muna district, 1 663 kilometres northeast of Jakarta, told the state-run Antara news agency villagers of Marga Karya and Karya Bakti saw the pencil-like flaming object crash loudly into a heavily forested area last Friday.

Their reports of the satellite sighting were delayed by poor communications linking the two remote villages to Muna.

Amiruddin said his office strongly suspected the unidentified crashing object was debris from a satellite belonging to Italy“s National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan).

Lapan reportedly issued a warning last month that debris from their space satellite BeppoSAX would probably fall in Indonesian territories along the equator in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku or Papua.

It also warned some of the satellite debris might be toxic, and sightings should be reported to authorities. BeppoSAX, weighing about 1.6 kg, was initially expected to fall to earth on April 19, said Antara. - Sapa-DPA

KENT: April 19, said Antara. - Sapa-DPA, unusual dating although the rentry has been uncontrolled with various speculations of times and dates. If the Italiian sat has broken up, perhaps intentional demolition, maybe the debris has scattered, different densities