A large contraption parachuted to the ground at a farm in Merrill, Mi., this morning.

One of the companies responsible for the space junk has already come to the farm to pick it up.

Space contraption in yard in Merrill, MI on October 26, 2019. (Photo from Nancy Welke)

Nancy Welke says she and her husband Dan were about to go outside and work with their horses today when she heard a loud noise outside. She looked out the window and didn’t know what she was seeing lying in a pile in their yard.

Outside, with a closer look, they found a four-legged object with an aluminum foil-wrapped box. The top of the conglomeration had what appeared to be solar panels. Inside the box were two large cameras and one Samsung cell phone, according to Nancy Welke.

The Welkes didn’t see the junk fall, but they found a parachute attached to the contraption. The parachute was stuck in one of their trees.

Parachute from space contraption stuck in tree in Merrill, MI on October 26, 2019. (Photo from Nancy Welke)

The contraption had several Samsung plaques on it. Wording on the sides of the box structure read “Space Selfie.”

At nearly the same time, a large balloon came down onto a power line in Wheeler, Mi., a few miles away. Welke says power had to be shut off in the area while crews removed the popped balloon from the power line on Barry Road in eastern Gratiot County. Welke estimates her power was off for about two hours.

This picture gives us a good perspective of the size of the space junk in Merrill, MI on October 26, 2019. (Photo from Nancy Welke)

Staff from a company called Raven Industries came to pick up the space contraption. Welke says the Raven representative wouldn’t say much about the situation. That person only told her the contraption was launched from Iowa yesterday and was being used to take pictures. The Raven representative told Welke the company is based “out of the Dakotas.”

Samsung just this week launched a program called Space Selfie. According to the Samsung website, the idea is for people to upload their picture and a space photo of Earth will be merged with their photo. The photo will then be sent back to the original uploader.