Is the Mysterious Metal Fragment in Siberia Alien or Man-Made?

[surajt88]

"UFO Fragment" falls in Siberia

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ufo-fragment-crash-lands-in-siberia-768866

[..] mysterious “UFO fragment” has crash landed in a tiny village in Siberia sparking frenzied speculation about its origins.

The object found is not related to space technology. A final conclusion can be made after a detailed study of the object by experts.

Speculation that the metal debris had come from a bungled rocket or satellite launch in Kazakhstan has also been denied.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...e-200-kilo-UFO-fragment-fell-sky-Siberia.html

http://zeenews.india.com/news/space...ragment-falls-from-sky-in-siberia_765486.html

http://news.google.co.in/news/url?s...e.com/15010-ufo-fragment-siberia-mystery.html

http://news.google.co.in/news/url?s...ace/ufo-fragment-under-police-guard-1.1261359

Any thoughts on what this might be?

 

[Evo]

Is it the russian satellite that was due to come down this week?

http://www.enn.com/business/article/44144

Perhaps it didn't all fall where they hoped.

 

[Pengwuino]

 

[micromass]

Damnit Peng, you beat me to it

 

[Pengwuino]

Damnit Peng, you beat me to it

I saw the thread and immediately knew the race was on.

 

[DennisN]

Another picture of the satellite mentioned above (Ekspress AM4):
http://www.enjoyspace.com/en/news/proton-grounded

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekspress

(I actually misread one of the quotes as: "Speculation that the mental debris had come from [...] Kazakhstan has also been denied." )

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I'm pretty sure it's just a white van.

 

[DennisN]

I'm pretty sure it's just a white van.

 

[surajt88]

"skepticism n debunkin" anyone...??

 

[OldEngr63]

Looks like the top of a grain silo to me.

 

[Evo]

Looks like the top of a grain silo to me.

Me too.

 

[256bits]

Where I come from they call that white stuff snow and all natural, so they led us believe til now. UFO dandriff no doubt.

 

[russ_watters]

Slow news week I guess.

 

[Ravi Mandavi]

Slow comment i guess

 

[kejoki]

Looking at the fragment, and then at the picture of the launch vehicle for the Ekspres, it seems possible that the fragment is one of the end covers for a payload.

I didn't see any white van, it must be camouflaged against the UFO dandruff.

 

[phinds]

"skepticism n debunkin" anyone...??

You can't be serious. You actually want someone to waste time on doing anything other than making fun of such nonsense?

 

[jhae2.718]

It's obviously part of a neuron-hydrogen antimatter hydrodynamic propulsion unit.

 

[surajt88]

You can't be serious. You actually want someone to waste time on doing anything other than making fun of such nonsense?

Well, that's your view. If you feel it's a waste of time, you are welcome to ignore this thread. I tried to get more details on this incident and couldn't find any explanation for the origin of the object in question. Hence I came here trying to find any possible explanation. I'm not trying to waste anyone's time.

That aside, turns out the object is made mostly of titanium.

 

[phinds]

Well, that's your view.

Uh ... have you been reading the rest of the replies?

 

[turbo]

Did anybody actually see this thing fall? According to reports, it was found in the woods and dragged to the village on a trailer.

 

[Pattonias]

I wonder if they know its Titanium because its "ultra strong" or an expert actually confirmed it. Titanium parts in the aerospace industry is no huge feat. That would really only confirm that it was most likely from a plane or rocket. There is probably someone out there who know exactly what it is and they are laughing their butt off right now at all the speculation.

It would amuse me if it did turn out to be the top of a grain silo. (Most likely made of some other "ultra strong" material such as steel.)

 

[surajt88]

Did anybody actually see this thing fall? According to reports, it was found in the woods and dragged to the village on a trailer.

Found http://rt.com/s/swf/player5.4.swf?file=http://rt.com/files/news/space-mystery-object-siberia-127/if74e575a24ad95ca64545880280bca6f_oblomok.flv&image=http://rt.com/files/news/space-mystery-object-siberia-127/wwwaspekt-pressru-image.n.jpg&skin=http://rt.com/s/css/player_skin.zip&provider=http&abouttext=Russia%20Today&aboutlink=http://rt.com&autostart=false video from the Mirror news article. Not sure if it refers to the object falling.

 

[Chronos]

Looks like an air conditioner uprooted by a storm.

 

[dustinthewind]

Thats prety interesting that much titanium couldn't have come cheap. The next step if they have any curiosity as to investigate it would be to analyze a sample of the material to see if it is homogonous and is actually titanium and or if it is some unusual alloy they can't identify. They don't quote how they could know that it is titanium so it's sucpicious. Then who is claiming it fell out of the sky the whole town, one drunk hippie? They don't say. You would think they could get some more pictures of it from inside and out. Who analyzed it could be helpfull also to determine if the person was qualified to do so. In my opinion its intersting but lacking in details. Which is convenient for a lot of the news companies when all they want is a good story.

 

[SuperiorPrep]

Lol, I have to say I'm on the side of the skeptics...

 

[dustinthewind]

Well let's not assume its not a legitimate story. I mean all the events described could have verry well happened. I just lament that there was not more in depth coverage. Hopefully if this is legitimate the author will cover this story more fully as it would be an interesting mystery to solve. Maybe the question to ask is who is the original writer and how can we contact them with questions that may help them investigate.

 

[PoetaDemonio]

To a degree, this is interesting. Merely because it's clearly a man made object, and that renders the question of, who's object is it? but not really a good argument for potential alien evidence! Okay, so it's compossition is titanium, so what? all the suggests is it probably belongs to a government agency of some sort, in which could afford such an expensive piece of junk!

Why do we assume that if there was or is, other civilizations out there in the cosmos, that they would share similar or even mildly comparable styles of technology to us? (in which that object looks man made)... Especially if we are to suggest that they have traveled across star systems or potentially could be inter-dimentional beings! If they could achieve this feat of engineering, then obviously they are far beyond anything we can even imagine, considering we can't even reach our closest star with our current technology.