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Samsung's 'SpaceSelfie' satellite crashes into Michigan woman's front yard; company says it's coming round to pick it up!

Nancy Mumby-Welke called the event 'unbelievable' and thanked that nobody was outside when it happened.
UPDATED FEB 27, 2020
(Getty Images)
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Strange things do happen in everyday life. In January 1997, a woman named Lottie Williams made an unofficial history by getting hit by a falling junk from space while walking with two of her friends through a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the wee hours. On several analyses, the object was found to be part of the fuel tank of a Delta II rocket that had launched an American Air Force satellite the year before. 

Fast forward to 2019 and something similar happened again. A woman in rural Michigan was left stunned when she saw a Samsung satellite landed in the yard in front of her house on Saturday, October 26. Nancy Mumby-Welke, a resident of Merrill, heard a crashing sound around 8.45 am and when she came out, she saw the space machine — still functioning as in humming and flashing — lying among the leaves on the ground, the state-based Gratiot County Herald reported on Saturday. 

Welke later posted about her experience on Facebook, calling it "unbelievable". "Look what just fell out of the sky and 911 is baffled and it’s caught up in our tree," she said.

The object, having four legs, had a box wrapped in an aluminium foil, solar panels and many “Samsung” plaques. Inside the box, there were two large cameras and a Samsung cellphone, added Welke. The box read “SpaceSelfie”.

'Thank God there were no horses out'

Welke also thanked the fact that there was nobody outside when the satellite fell. “You never know what’s going to happen. Thank God there were no horses out,” she said in a video that documented the unique finding.

Later, it was told on Samsung’s behalf to ABC News in a statement that “Samsung Europe’s SpaceSelfie balloon” was scheduled to hit earth when “weather conditions resulted in an early soft landing in a selected rural area.”

“No injuries occurred and the balloon was subsequently retrieved,” it added.

The fallen object was part of the company’s “SpaceSelfie” marketing campaign under which people send their selfies and can view them layered over real-time shots above Earth. The event was launched in London last week, the New York Post reported.

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