PART of an object suspected to have fallen from space was found in the Kampung Tanjung Beach area, Nenasi, Pekan.<\/p>\n
Pekan District Police Chief, Superintendent Mohd Zaidi Mat Zin, said they received a report on the discovery of the object from officers from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) at 5pm yesterday.<\/p>\n
He said that based on initial investigations by MOSTI, the object is suspected to have fallen into the sea and washed ashore by the current.<\/p>\n
He said that the fragment was 4.26 metres (m) long and 3.64m wide and there were barnacles, a type of marine life, attached to the object.<\/p>\n
“The Space Authority Division, MOSTI, the Malaysian Atomic Energy Department and the Malaysian Space Agency have investigated the discovery of the object.<\/p>\n
“The results of the investigation and tests carried out by the agencies involved confirmed that the object is free of any radiation.<\/p>\n
“Officials from the agency involved have also temporarily transferred the object to the Nenasi police station,” he said as reported by Berita Harian.<\/p>\n
Mohd Zaidi said the agency would take the object for further investigation.<\/p>\n
“The public who find such objects are asked to contact the authorities for further action. The weight of the object is estimated to reach 500 kilograms,” he said.<\/p>\n
The media previously reported that three Chinese satellites had fallen to earth between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n
The objects were reported to have been found in several locations including the Pacific and Indian Oceans.<\/p>\n
Among them were the Tiangong-1 satellite in 2018 and the Long March 5B in 2022.<\/p>\n
Parts of the satellite were found floating in the waters of Sarawak and Kalimantan, Indonesia. \u2013 January 1, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PART of an object suspected to have fallen from space was found in the Kampung Tanjung Beach area,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[229,3224,114916,61,60,29983,14733,11830,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-222450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-chinese","9":"tag-earth","10":"tag-falled","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-object","14":"tag-ocean","15":"tag-satellites","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}