Let's call her Resident B. Resident B has the time to watch what falls from the sky over their extensively-sized farm. That's because a medical condition keeps her mostly chair-bound.
Resident B, who lives on the Southern Downs, can support the earlier claims of another local, Resident A, about the falling debris seen over the skies of Karara.
The latest on those findings is that RAAF Warrant Officer, Mark Garbutt has confirmed, in a further correspondence to Resident A, who is in communication with our newspaper, that the material was likely from the "sheath" of a "counter measure flare system".
"After our previous correspondence chain, our engineers have kept looking for possible sources of where this metal could have originated from," Officer Garbutt said.
Resident A had offered concerns about the object/s being "sharp," to which he said, "As this metal is quite light, it is our understanding that the item would not attain a terminal velocity sufficient to cause notable damage.
"When it departed the aircraft at the height it would have fallen from, the shape and size would most likely have made it ‘flutter’ rather than plummet to the ground. Given the size of the training area the aircraft operate over, the risk of injury to a person, or fauna, would be very low."
Officer Garbutt thanked Resident A for her concern and said that there will "hopefully be no re-occurrence of this happening again in the future".
In conversation with Resident B, she said that the debris seen falling, are what she deems consistent from "dog-fights... about every six weeks," in the air, are not "in her imagination".
"I can see stuff coming down... the red glow," Resident B told us.
Other residents are welcome to join the conversation.
We have written to Officer Garbutt and await a response.
