Spacex rocket debris crashes in Poland

Around 03:30 GMT on Wednesday, the sky in northern Europe was illuminated by an object increasing in the air in flames.

“I immediately remembered a science fiction film in which it looked like a formation of troops that would attack,” said Simon Erickson, a Malmo worker, to the Swedish state operator.

Pyrotechnics is actually caused by the Space X Falcon 9 rocket, which again enters the atmosphere of the Earth. In Denmark, Sweden and Sweden there are reports of observations EnglandS

Then pieces of the rocket crashed in Poland and, according to experts, can also land in Ukraine.

Around 10:00 local time (09:00 GMT) this morning, Adam Boruki was surprised to find what looks like a charred tank measuring about 1.5 m by 1 m behind his warehouse in comorruptcy, Poland.

The debris seems to have damaged the luminaire in the yard of the warehouse.

Boruki contacted police, working with the Polish space agency POLSA, determined that the unidentified object was debris from the Falcon 9 missile, manufactured by the company of Elon Musk SpaceX.

“We are investigating how the site ended up in this place, but the important thing is that no one was hurt,” said police spokesman Andrzej Borowak.

A similar piece of debris was discovered in a forest near the Polish village of Wiry, according to Polish police.

Polsa confirmed that “uncontrolled re -entry into the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket happened between 04:46 and 04:48 on February 19, 2025 over Poland.”

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is used to transport humans and useful loads in the earth's atmosphere. It is designed to be repeated.

The rocket that created these debris started by SpaceX from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 1st.

“He had to hire Earth's atmosphere controlled and collapse into the Pacific,” Harvard D -R -Jonatan McDowell's astrophysicist told the BBC.

“But the engine failed. We have seen it around Earth orbit in the last few weeks, and today we were expecting uncontrolled re -entry that people saw burning in the sky.

“The debris tossed over England by about 17,000 miles / h, then parts of Scandinavia then bumped into Eastern Europe by several hundred miles per hour.”

Space debris from missiles and satellites hire the Earth's atmosphere several times a month. Usually pieces of space debris are completely burned from the earth's atmosphere, but the greater piece can fall to the ground. According to Dr. McDowell, uncontrolled re-entry into the rocket is rare and has the potential to be dangerous.

“We are lucky so far and no one has been hurt, but the more we put in the orbit of the Earth, the greater our luck is to expire,” he said.

“This is the fourth incident recently with SpaceX Falcon, which causes anxiety. It seems that problems like this engine damage are becoming more common.”

So far, large pieces of debris have been confirmed in Poland, but Dr. McDowell suspects that the pieces have collapsed in Western Ukraine, where stripes similar to the comet in the sky are “clearly visible.”

“This is a lot of omen for how our civilization is changing,” he added.

The BBC turned to Space X for comment.