{"id":218303,"date":"2025-10-16T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218303\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:08:11","slug":"suv-sized-piece-of-nasa-equipment-falls-from-sky-crash-lands-on-rural-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218303\/","title":{"rendered":"SUV-sized piece of NASA equipment falls from sky, crash lands on rural farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on Oct. 16, 2025, 6:04 PM<\/p>\n

An average of 200 to 400<\/a> tracked objects, also referred to as \u2018space junk,\u2019 enter Earth\u2019s atmosphere annually.<\/p>\n

People in a rural west Texas community got quite the surprise earlier this month when a car-sized piece of equipment landed unexpectedly on a farm.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post<\/a>, Ann Vincent Walter says she saw a large parachute hovering above her home on October 2. She initially thought it was a weather balloon, but when she took a video and sent it to her parents, he father said it didn\u2019t look like one and suggested she call the county sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\"FACEBOOK<\/p>\n

Ann says she initally thought the equipment (pictured here in the sky, prior to landing) was a weather balloon. (Facebook\/Ann Vincent Walter)<\/p>\n

\u201cI called the Hale County sheriff\u2019s office and explained what we saw,\u201d Ann says in her Facebook post.<\/p>\n

“They thanked me for informing them, [and said] a NASA team was currently trying to find and retrieve their piece of equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FACEBOOK<\/p>\n

NASA said the equipment had blown off course. (Facebook\/Ann Vincent Walter)<\/p>\n

She was told a NASA rep would be contacting her for more information, adding that the object was a \u201clarge piece of experimental equipment attached to a parachute.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA told her the equipment, which was launched from the Fort Sumner launch facility<\/a>, had blown off course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Oct. 16, 2025, 6:04 PM An average of 200 to 400 tracked objects, also referred to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-218303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}