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Image credit: Polish Space Agency (POLSA)

The Polish Space Agency’s (POLSA) Department of Space Security Team has confirmed that on February 19 there was an uncontrolled atmospheric entry of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket body that occurred over the territory of Poland.

The rocket stage, weighing approximately four tons, came from the Space X Starlink Group 11-4 mission, launched on February 1 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

There are reports of rocket part leftovers reaching the ground.

Image credit: SpaceX

“Since the information about the discovery of probable rocket debris appeared, POLSA has been cooperating with the police, who are securing the area on site,” the space agency has stated. “A POLSA employee was immediately sent to these places to inspect the objects. POLSA also contacted SpaceX to confirm the origin of the debris and to plan further actions.”

Image credit: Adam Borucki/Facebook

Pressure vessels

Meanwhile, Marco Langbroek of SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands, reports that there were lots of reports and videos of the reentry of the Falcon 9 upper stage that failed to perform its deorbit burn.

Reports have come in from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Poland of a bright, slow, fragmenting fireball event, Langbroek explains. “Possible debris has been recovered around Poznan in Poland, two or three what appear to be composite wrapped pressure vessels,” he adds.

Indeed, Adam Borucki has posted imagery on the Internet of the object he found near Poznan, Poland – seemingly identified correctly as a pressure vessel.