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Offline Linda

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"Space ball" drops on Namibia
« on: December 23, 2011, 01:24:23 PM »
"Space ball" drops on Namibia
http://news.yahoo.com/space-ball-drops-namibia-133326985.html



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A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency.

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Several such balls have dropped in southern Africa, Australia and Latin America in the past twenty years, authorities found in an Internet search.

The start of a good conspiracy. They drop the story with a description of the balls and leave you hanging to figure the rest out for yourself.

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104 Litre Hydrazine Propellant Tank: Model OST 31/0. Google it.

So I did and here is a picture of  a 104 Litre Hydrazine Propellant Tank: Model OST 31/0.

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Re: "Space ball" drops on Namibia
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2011, 01:43:53 PM »
It most likely came from this.
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Re: "Space ball" drops in on Namibia
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2011, 02:56:25 PM »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9MxTRspXpQ[/youtube]
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