Print Adam Burucki had a very peculiar Wednesday morning. Upon arriving at his warehouse in the quaint Polish village of Komorniki, he discovered that a massive chunk of charred rocket debris had crash-landed on his property. Flabbergasted by the discovery, he called the police in the nearby city of Poznan, the BBC reported. The police, working alongside the Polish Space Agency, known as POLSA, then determined that the 3-by-5-foot object was from a Falcon 9 rocket manufactured by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, according to the news outlet. Police also said that a similar piece of debris was found near the village of Wiry, about 2½ miles from Komorniki. Advertisement The rocket was launched Feb. 1 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County and carried 22 Starlink satellites into orbit, according to a statement from POLSA. The Falcon 9 rocket is designed to transport people and cargo into space and then safely reenter Earth’s atmosphere. However, at 4:46 a.m. local time Wednesday, the second stage of the rocket made an uncontrolled reentry over Poland, POLSA said. During this time, fragments of the rocket burning up as fireballs could be seen in the skies over the country, according to the Polish Press Agency and videos shared on social media. Nad ranem nad Polską można było zaobserwować tajemnicze rozbłyski. Jak przekazał popularyzator astronomii Karol Wójcicki, były to spalające się w atmosferze szczątki drugiego stopnia rakiety Falcon 9 od firmy SpaceX. Rakieta została wystrzelona 1 lutego 2025 roku, z bazy sił… pic.twitter.com/7x7xmZ4zpm