North Carolina groundskeeper Justin Clontz discovers mysterious space debris along hiking trail near Glamping Collective

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According to Richard Pollina

On a remote trail in the mountains of North Carolina, a glamping groundskeeper came across a bizarre space object.

Justin Clontz and a co-worker were doing maintenance around the Glamping Collective, a luxury campground in Haywood County, when he was “shocked” to find the massive object covered in thick sheets of metal held together by otherworldly-looking screws.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing, you know, it doesn’t happen every day,” Clontz told WLOS.

The strange object appeared to be covered in burnt carbon fiber, is about an inch thick and nearly 4 feet tall according to the ascent.

“We don’t know what it is. We just know it’s not from here,” Clontz said.

Men were forced to lift a heavy object by tying a lawnmower to a rope.

“There’s a one-in-a-million chance that it lands, especially if it lands somewhere off-trail in the woods where you’d never find it, but it happened to land on a trail,” Clontz said.

While the object itself appears to be burned, Clontz said the surrounding area shows no signs of damage, raising even more questions about how the mysterious piece of metal ended up deep in the woods.

Clontz said no one at the glamping site reported hearing any unusual noises.

A similar-looking charred piece of debris was discovered in February in a farm field in Saskatchewan, Canada.

According to Space.com, experts speculate that the object may have fallen to Earth from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.

SpaceX has not confirmed whether the object found in Canada came from their craft.

However, ground-based tracking of Crew Dragon’s “trunk” that reappeared in February suggests it may have come from a pioneering space technology company, the server said.

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the areas from Tennessee through Virginia and West Virginia have the highest chance of becoming impact zones from Crew Dragon debris.

North Carolina has not been ruled out as an area where debris could have fallen.

In March, a female airline passenger claimed to have spotted a possible UFO hovering over the Big Apple on a commercial airline flight over LaGuardia Airport.

She claimed another person saw an out-of-this-world object during the flight and was stunned.

The states with the most UFO sightings in 2023 were California (440), Florida (293), Texas (230), Washington (212) and New York (156), according to the National UFO Reporting Center.

Lincoln County, Nevada, had the most UFO sightings of any U.S. county between 2000 and 2023, at 820.9 per 100,000 residents, the nonprofit said.