A gardener at a glamping site stumbled upon a strange space object on a remote trail in the mountains of North Carolina.
Justin Klontz and a colleague were performing maintenance work around the Glamping Collective, a luxury campground in Haywood County, when they “were shocked” to come across a large object covered in dense metal plates secured with ominous bolts.
“This is a once in a lifetime thing, it doesn’t happen every day,” Klontz said. WLOS.
According to the outlet, the strange object appears to be covered in burnt carbon fiber and is about an inch thick and nearly four feet tall.
“I don’t know what it is, I just know it didn’t come from here,” Clontz said.
The men were forced to tie ropes to lawnmowers to do the heavy lifting.
“The odds of it landing are one in a million, especially if it lands somewhere in the woods off the trail, you’re never going to find it, but it happened to land on the trail,” Klontz said.
While the object itself appears to have been burned, there were no signs of damage found in the surrounding area, Klontz said, raising further questions about how the mysterious piece of metal ended up so deep in the forest.
Klontz said no one at the glamping site reported hearing any unusual noises.
Similar charred remains were found in a farmer’s field in Saskatchewan, Canada, in February.
Experts speculate that the object may have fallen to Earth from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. Space.com.
SpaceX has not confirmed whether the object found in Canada came from one of its spacecraft.
However, ground tracking of the Crew Dragon’s “trunk” after it re-entered the spacecraft in February suggested it may belong to a pioneering space technology company, the media reported.
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told the outlet that the area stretching from Tennessee to Virginia and West Virginia is the most likely impact zone for Crew Dragon debris.
North Carolina cannot be ruled out as another area where debris may have fallen.
In March, a passenger on a commercial flight flying over LaGuardia Airport claimed to have spotted what he thought was a UFO flying over New York.
She claimed that other passengers on the plane were also astonished when they saw the strange object.
According to the National UFO Reporting Center, the states with the most UFO sightings in 2023 were California (440), Florida (293), Texas (230), Washington (212) and New York (156).
The nonprofit organization reported that Lincoln County, Nevada, had the most UFO sightings of any county in the U.S. between 2000 and 2023, with 820.9 sightings per 100,000 residents.
