A mysterious metallic ring with a radiant glow plummeted to the ground, leaving everyone puzzled about its origin and purpose.

2025-04-11 16:49:18

A glimpse of the metal ring, approximately 8 feet in diameter, that descended from the sky into Mukuku village on December 30 in the eastern region of Makueni County, Kenya.

Over a week has passed since initial reports surfaced regarding a "luminescent metal ring" that descended from the sky and landed close to a secluded village in Kenya.

According to the Kenya Space Agency, the object weighed 1,100 pounds (500 kg) and had a diameter of more than 8 feet (2.4 meters) when measured after it landed on December 30. A couple of days later, the space agency confidently reported that the object was a piece of space debris, saying it was a ring that separated from a rocket. "Such objects are usually designed to burn up as they re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas, such as the oceans," the space agency told The New York Times.

Following the release of the initial reports in Western media, a group of committed space enthusiasts has been leveraging open source information to pinpoint the exa