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<p>The authorities are investigating the origin of a large object that fell to the ground on the outskirts of one of Poland’s largest cities. There are suspicions that it may be part of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle used by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.</p>
<p>Early on Wednesday morning, unusual flashes were seen in the sky in some parts of Poland.</p>
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<p>In the afternoon, the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) confirmed that “between 04:46 and 04:48 a.m., an uncontrolled entry into the atmosphere of a FALCON 9 R/B launch vehicle stage occurred over the territory of Poland”.</p>
<p>“The rocket stage, weighing approximately four tonnes, came from the Space X Starlink Group 11-4 mission, which took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 1 February 2025,” added POLSA.</p>
<p>“The flight trajectory of this object was known to POLSA and the services responsible in Europe for monitoring the risk of artificial space objects entering the Earth’s atmosphere.”</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, a spokesman for the police force in Poznań, Poland’s fifth-largest city, told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that at 9:20 a.m. they had been notified that an unidentified object had been found on the premises of a company in Komorniki, a village that is part of the Poznań metropolitan area.</p>
<p>“We are securing the scene,” said the spokesman. “Firefighters and police officers from the pyrotechnic reconnaissance group are working there…[to] explain the circumstances of how this object ended up on the premises of the company.”</p>
<p>“We know that debris from a Falcon missile flew over Poland, but whether this is part of it – we are not able to confirm this at the moment,” he added, also noting that no one had been injured by the object.</p>
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<p>The director of the facility where the object was discovered, Adam Borucki, told news website Interia that it is around one and a half metres (five feet) long and looks like a “tank wrapped in foil with a piece of pipe sticking out”.</p>
<p>A person involved in the investigation, speaking anonymously to news website Onet, says that the object “looks almost identical to a fragment of the Falcon that fell in the US in 2021” (which is shown on the right in the Facebook post above, alongside the Polish object on the left).</p>
<p>Following this morning’s incident, Poland’s defence minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, told broadcaster RMF that it was “not something that threatens state security”.</p>
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