The asphalt drum-like object crashed into the cowshed belonging to Syamsul. Half of the building enclosure damaged.
"That happened about 10:00 pm, the object is falling," said Asmar, a local resident.
Not yet known exactly what the foreign object. However, according to newspaper circulation, the object when a plane crashed at the same time passing over the island of Gili Genting.
"Do not know what the object is. On the outside there are winding like plastic and raffia. When you try to be burnt can not burn," he said.
National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) requested that the mysterious object that crashed in Genting GIKI Island, Lombang Village, District Gili Genting, Sumenep, Madura today maintained.
Space agency head, Thomas Jamaluddin, said the case following allegations that the mysterious object was space junk.
"Object to be secured to be further investigated by LAPAN," Thomas said when contacted Bojez.com, Monday (26/09/2016).
Thomas revealed, it needs to analyze a mysterious object that falls to ascertain the truth of allegations it as space junk. Space agency needs to see objects directly and analyze its composition.
Currently, inspectors from the Agency for Nuclear Energy (Bapeten) has been sent to the location where the fall of the mysterious object.
"They will check to see the content of radioactivity. If from the initial information about objects that may fall, there may be no radioactivity. We also ask Bapeten to keep the object," explains Thomas.
Reported earlier, LAPAN suspect that the mysterious object that falls in Sumenep around 10:00 pm was space junk, the body of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched the JCSAT-16 satellite at 14 August 2016.
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