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- ABC News
- April 2, 2024
Suspected space object crashes through home's roof
Alejandro Otero alleged the object crashed through his home in March.
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Otero previously claimed he had reached out to NASA for a response but did not hear back. In a statement Tuesday, NASA said the agency \"collected an item in cooperation with the homeowner, and will analyze the object at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as soon as possible to determine its origin,\" adding, \"More information will be available once the analysis is complete.\"
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In an interview with WINK TV in Ft. Myers, Otero said he was on vacation when the incident took place but that his son was home and called him about the damage, saying, \"Something ripped through the house and then made a big hole on the floor and on the ceiling.\"
\"When we heard that, we were like, impossible, and then immediately I thought a meteorite,\" Otero told WINK.
Otero said the object weighs nearly two pounds and appears to be \"cylindrical-shaped.\"
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\"It used to have a cylindrical shape, and you can tell by the shape of the top that it traveled in this direction through the atmosphere. Whatever you burned, created in this burn and melted the metal over in this direction,\" Otero told WINK.
Upon arrival to his home, Otero said he was \"shaking\" and that he's \"super grateful that nobody got hurt.\"
“I was shaking. I was completely in disbelief,\" Otero told WINK. \"What are the chances of something landing on my house with such force to cause so much damage?” he said, adding, “I’m super grateful that nobody got hurt.”
ABC News has reached out to Otero for a comment.
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