“Some people in Western Australia are upset about Skylab coming down here,” Mr. Seiler said, “but I think we've got to accept this sort of thing happening in the modern world. Somebody had to have it coming and no one's been hurt. I'm just amazed that of all the people in the world it had to come down near me.”

Two days after the space station completed its descent, the West Australian Emergency Services Department has not received any reports of injuries or property damage. In Esperance the coordinator of the service, Phillip Arlidge, said it appeared that there had been no mishaps but said that some isolated communities, where communications were poor, had still not reported in.

Several Chunks Are Found

PERTH, Australia, Friday, July 13 (AP) — Souvenir‐hunting Australians, some in planes and others in jeeps, hauled in hunks of what appeared to be Skylab junk from roofs and outback scrub land today while dozens of other angry citizens gave the United States a piece of their minds about the space station scare.

Much of it came down over land, however, at about 2 A.M. local time yesterday — 1 P.M. Wednesday, Eastern daylight time — in a “jackpot of shooting stars,” as it was described by an Australian airline pilot who saw the fiery display from aloft.

Bill Norton, a telecommunications technician, said that he was sleeping at his home in remote Rawlinna, on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert 550 miles east of Perth, when a booming noise awoke him — apparently the sound of the impact.

‘We Almost Fell Over It’

He and two companions headed out into the nearby bush. About six miles from town “we happened to come across it,” • he said. “It was hard to see as it blended so well with the countryside. We almost fell over it. We knew it had to be from Skylab.”

It was a 6‐ by 3‐foot cylinder of steel coated with a fiberglass‐like substance, he said.

“It was burned in places but pretty much intact,” Mr. Norton said. “It took two 4‐wheel‐drive vehicles to haul it onto the trailer.”