{"id":883930,"date":"2026-10-16T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883930\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:08:10","slug":"space-debris-possibly-found-in-stevens-county-minnesota-cornfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883930\/","title":{"rendered":"Space debris possibly found in Stevens County, Minnesota cornfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/eb0d46-20261015-stevens-county-space-debris-600.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:8 \/ 10\" alt=\"a large metal object in a corn field \"\/><\/p>\n<p>An 11-foot-wide metal object was found in a Stevens County cornfield on Wednesday. It may be space debris. <\/p>\n<p>Stevens County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>An 11-foot-wide metal object found in a Stevens County cornfield Wednesday may be space debris. Authorities in the west-central Minnesota county say it poses no danger to the public, but they are still working to determine what it is and who owns it.<\/p>\n<p>The Stevens County Sheriff\u2019s Office says deputies went to the Scott Township field after receiving a call around 3:30 p.m. The Minnesota Duty Officer was notified, and federal agencies came to the site.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office is coordinating with state and federal officials to identify the object, contact its owner, and arrange to have it removed.<\/p>\n<p>MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 11-foot-wide metal object was found in a Stevens County cornfield on Wednesday. It may be space debris.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-883930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}