That’s the title:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/sc_nm/australia_spacejunk_dc
You can’t foool me. “Carbon fibers” ? Hah!
This is a hairball from one of those sentient UFOs that Charles Fort was always writing about
It flew from his burning barrel after an aerosol can blew up.
Look inside—you’ll find Harold Holt.
What? Too soon?
Did you see this?
“In 1979, large parts of the Skylab space station fell to earth near a tiny outback town in Australia’s west. A local council sent NASA a ticket for littering and then the United States President Jimmy Carter rang a local motel to apologize.”
I have no memory of that. Of course I wouldn’t, after what the aliens have put me through.
No, this is a spitwad from Mechagodzilla.
Seriously, it’s probably an high pressure helium ullage tank for an RCS or TVC system on a rocket motor. They’re frequently made from fiber-wournd composite or an metallic FWC-reinforced pressure vessel.
Stranger
They had this bloke on the local radio last night. He said it is spherical (apart from an impact dent), it looks like steel, it’s hollow, and it has a hole in each end. The thing weighs about twenty kilograms. He’s called NASA, who haven’t any idea, and another agency, who are still trying to find out.
There was a woman interviwed after him who was a space somebody-or-other, and she said that these events are remarkably common in this country, and that the space agencies probably aren’t interested in the object itself, but only in its final impact trajectory if that was unusual. She did say that the object might be worth something to an enthusiast. At the moment, it’s sitting in a wheelbarrow in the farmer’s shed.
It’s a mini-Death Star!
He’s the only president to say he saw a UFO. He’s also the only president to have to fend off a killer rabbit when fishing in a boat. He has spent decades doing Habitat for Humanity.
(bolding mine)
And the Martians in War of the Worlds cried, “Ulllaaaa… Ulllaaaa…” You can’t hide Alien Artifacts from us.
500 miles from Brisbane is not really remote.
No, but Brisbane is.
d&r
Well, anything west of Toowoomba and it starts to look a lot like Mars, IME…
A globe fell in Brazil.This article has better pictures of the new globe and the Australian wreck. We have another source, besides Stranger On A Train that says it’s a high pressure gas vessel.
Oh, wow. This is starting to get a bit creepy…
Nah.
Just space junk.
I am the most paranoid person on this Board, & even I understand it ain’t nothin’.
Yeah, I know you’re right. 
(I still maintain they look like miniature Death Stars…)
It looks like a creature from a bad 80s Sci-Fi movie. Is it being chased by aliens, shooting poisonous quills, and shouting “Let’s Roll…”?