4lb lump of metal 'fell from space'
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Your support makes all the difference.The RAF today said a lump of metal which smashed through the roof of a house was believed to have come from space.
The 4lb object was investigated by the RAF Flight Safety Branch after it landed in the loft of Peter and Mair Welton's home, on Forester Way, in Hull, in July this year.
The branch has now identified it as space debris and said it was the only incident of its kind investigated by the RAF in the last five years.
The metal was reported to the RAF as it was initially thought it may have fallen off an aircraft.
But the investigation found the debris had not come from a plane and was more likely to have fallen to earth from space - although it is unknown what the metal was from.
An RAF spokeswoman said: "In the last five years the RAF has become involved in only one incident involving suspected space debris.
"If requested the RAF will investigate incidents of space debris but they do not have a standing remit to do so."
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