Monitoring not planned
There are no plans for tracking the re-entry of the Skylab capsule scheduled to return to Earth later this year, according to a spokesman for the Bendix Field Engineering Corporation’s tracking station at Lake Tekapo. “We normally do not get involved in this sort of thing,” he said, “and we have no plans to monitor the reentry.” The station did track the fall of debris of a Russian satellite, parts of which reportedly landed in Samoa and other regions of the South Pacific about five years ago.
The spokesman said that the station had not spotted or tracked the movements of anything which might be classified as an unidentified flying object anywhere in New Zealand recently. “You can have your illusions up there, if you like,” he said. “We have no such things down here.”
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