Woman Surprised When Large Chunk of NASA Equipment Crashes Down From Sky

On an unassuming morning in rural West Texas, a woman named Ann Walter was puzzled when a huge hunk of metal descended from the sky and crash landed in her neighbor’s wheat field. There were NASA logos on the parachutes that carried the truck-sized object, which itself bore NASA markings.

“It’s crazy, because when you’re standing on the ground and see something in the air, you don’t realize how big it is,” Walter told the Associated Press. “It was probably a 30-foot parachute. It was huge.”

Unsure of what to do, she called her local sheriff, who told her that NASA had, in fact, misplaced some scientific research equipment.

She’d later get a phone call from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility and learn the equipment took off from a launch facility in New Mexico that’s responsible