Alien object or SpaceX Dragon debris? Mysterious space object found in North Carolina

A groundskeeper in the North Carolina mountains has found a bizarre space object. The groundskeeper, identified as one Justin Clontz as well as his co-worker were reportedly handling maintenance around a luxury campsite when they reacted with shock after finding massive object covered in dense metal sheets held together by out-of-this-world looking bolts.

"It’s once in a lifetime you know, it don’t happen every day," Clontz told a local TV station.

The local TV station described the strange object covered in an inch-thick burnt carbon fiber that was nearly 4 feet tall.

"We don’t know what it is. We just know that it’s not from up here," Clontz said.

The men reportedly lifted the heavy object by tying a lawn mower and rope.

"It’s a one in a million chance that it lands, especially if it landed somewhere off the trail in the woods you’d have never found it but it just happened to land on the trail," Clontz said.

According to reports, the object in itself appears to be burnt but the surrounding area showed no signs of damage. This raised even more questions about how the piece of metal ended up deep in the hiking site.

What does it mean?

There are speculations that the object could have fallen to earth from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, according to Space.com.

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told a TV station that areas from Tennessee through Virginia and West Virginia have the highest chances of being impact zones for debris from the Crew Dragon.

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North Carolina is not excluded from possibly being an area where the debris may have fallen.

In March, an airplane passenger claimed she spotted a possible UFO soaring above the Big Apple while on a commercial airline flight above LaGuardia Airport, New York Post reported.