{"id":262392,"date":"2026-01-01T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262392\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:47:13","slug":"part-of-object-suspected-to-be-from-space-found-on-pekan-beach-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262392\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of object suspected to be from space found on Pekan beach | Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PART of an object suspected to have fallen from space was found in the Kampung Tanjung Beach area, Nenasi, Pekan.<\/p>\n<p>Pekan District Police Chief, Superintendent Mohd Zaidi Mat Zin, said they received a report on the discovery of the object from officers from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) at 5pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that based on initial investigations by MOSTI, the object is suspected to have fallen into the sea and washed ashore by the current.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the fragment was 4.26 metres (m) long and 3.64m wide and there were barnacles, a type of marine life, attached to the object.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Space Authority Division, MOSTI, the Malaysian Atomic Energy Department and the Malaysian Space Agency have investigated the discovery of the object.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results of the investigation and tests carried out by the agencies involved confirmed that the object is free of any radiation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officials from the agency involved have also temporarily transferred the object to the Nenasi police station,&#8221; he said as reported by Berita Harian.<\/p>\n<p>Mohd Zaidi said the agency would take the object for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public who find such objects are asked to contact the authorities for further action. The weight of the object is estimated to reach 500 kilograms,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The media previously reported that three Chinese satellites had fallen to earth between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The objects were reported to have been found in several locations including the Pacific and Indian Oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Among them were the Tiangong-1 satellite in 2018 and the Long March 5B in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the satellite were found floating in the waters of Sarawak and Kalimantan, Indonesia. \u2013 January 1, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PART of an object suspected to have fallen from space was found in the Kampung Tanjung Beach area,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[5214,6599,18,134859,19,17,54712,3619,6144,133,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-262392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-chinese","9":"tag-earth","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-falled","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-object","15":"tag-ocean","16":"tag-satellites","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-space"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115822280300473112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}