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Farmer finds 11-foot metallic object in Minnesota cornfield

Deputies in Scott Township say the roughly eleven-foot, charred object carries serial numbers, and one analysis links it to a Chinese rocket; officials say it poses no danger.

On air: Gloria Vance and Chip Darnell on BBN After Hours
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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn western Minnesota, a farmer in Scott Township has found an object about eleven feet across in a cornfield, and deputies were called out around three-thirty on Wednesday afternoon.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorEleven feet! That's a full-size pickup bed, and I bet it still has that new-metal smell.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe sheriff's office says it is presumably a space object, because of charring on it.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOfficials told KARE 11 it carries serial numbers that could identify its owner, and that there is no danger to the public.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSerial numbers? So somebody just has to call and claim it.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorArs Technica's analysis suggests it may match the upper stage of a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket launched on September fifteenth.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe farmer judged it had sat there about six weeks, going by the corn beneath it.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSix weeks! It's been in the field longer than my last three dates, and the corn didn't even complain.

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