NASA confirms mystery object that crashed through Florida home came from space station

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A strange item that hurtled through a Naples man's home was a piece of space hardware discarded from the International Space Center, NASA confirmed on Monday.

A strange item that hurtled through a Naples man's home was a piece of space hardware discarded from the International Space Center, NASA confirmed on Monday.READ: NASA investigates whether space station battery crashed through Florida homeOn March 8, Alejandro Otero, of Naples, posted on social media that an object he believed came from space tore through his home.

The pallet had been jettisoned from the ISS in March 2021, according to NASA, and was expected to fully burn up during entry into the Earth's atmosphere on March 8. However, a piece survived and impacted Otero's home. SIGN UP: Click here to sign up for the FOX 13 daily newsletterNASA analyzed the object at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

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