The strange ball may be a gas container

According to initial information, the strange ball dropped into the northern mountainous provinces could be an oxygen or hydrogen reservoir of a device in the air, due to technical problems should fall.

The military command of Tuyen Quang province said that after this unit worked with Military Zone 2, the provincial police, initially determined that the strange ball is not a bomb, landmine, explosive material, meteorite, but this is can be an oxygen tank or a hydrogen reservoir.

Device in the air

Before that, at 6:30 on January 2, at Mr. Quan Van Hoc's corn field (in Na Giang village, Tan My commune, Chiem Hoa district), people discovered a spherical object in steel, with a circumference of 2.05m, two sealed ends, weighing about 45-50kg, on the surface there are some foreign words.

Immediately after receiving the news, the Provincial Military Command, the Police Department of Tuyen Quang Province and the Military Region 2 Command's authorities were present at the scene to verify.

Similarly in Tuyen Quang, about 6 am on January 2, after a loud explosion with a strange ball falling into the area of ​​village 1, Tan Dong commune, Tran Yen district, Yen Bai. This incident has confused local people.

Mr. Tran Quang Thuan (53 years old, in Village 1), the first to discover a strange ball, said: "At that time I was going to my house when I heard loud bangs in the sky, then a loud shriek At first many people in the area were confused because they thought it was a bomb.

A few hours later I and many people in the village, the commune's military cadres came to Thanh's family's cinnamon garden area to see a metal sphere with a radius of about 30cm ".

The Military Command of Tuyen Quang province cooperated with Military Zone 2 forces to clarify the strange ball - (Photo: Tran Quang).

Mr. Trieu Quoc Tuan - Head of Tran Yen district district - said after finding out the strange sphere weighed about 5.8kg and a piece of debris weighing about 0.2kg broke the roof of a house in village 5 , Tan Dong commune, this unit handed over to the Military Command of Yen Bai province.

Soon the strange ball and a fragment were received by the Ministry of Defense representative to verify the case.

There will be specific information

Talking to PV, General Vo Van Tuan - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army - informed that two "strange balls" in Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai have recorded foreign languages ​​and cannot be determined yet. What items.

"This is equipment and supplies made by humans. Specialized agencies will continue to verify, then there will be specific information" - upper general Tuan said.

Mr. Tuan affirmed that these strange objects are not produced by Vietnam, nor are they part of an active part of Vietnam's "flying objects" falling.

There have been similar incidents in the world. In November 2011, a 5.9 kg metal ball dropped into remote areas in northern Namibia.

The incident has caused speculation and security concerns, the Namibian government has helped investigate. Later, the device was identified as a hydrazine container from an unmanned rocket, often used in satellite launches.

When this sphere fell to Namibia, it created a hole about 4m in diameter and 30 centimeters deep.

Experts explain the loud bang that local people hear is the sound of a supersonic explosion when the ball crosses the speed of sound when plunging into Earth or by crashing when falling to the ground.

Recently, in May 2014, people in Heilongjiang Province (China) reported to the authorities that three unidentified objects fell into the area. Three objects are said to be spherical, metal.

The ball weighs over 40kg, has a diameter of 76cm. Chinese media believed that these were parts of Russian Proton-M missiles. The missile carries telecom satellites into orbit and malfunctions at that time, burning and falling to Earth.

According to Xinhua, Chinese scientists also came to investigate and then concluded that it was part of the rocket.