India's Roswell? Air Force Shoots Down UFO Over Rajasthan, Officials Say It May Have Been Weather Balloon [Video]

Police investigators said five triangle- or cone-shaped metallic objects were recovered from the site and handed over to the IAF.

"We are in touch with the IAF officials and are sending them the pieces for further analysis," Barmer police said in a statement.

The Hindustan Times reports that the superintendent of police, Jassaram Bose, confirmed the report that five cone-shaped metallic objects were recovered from the site.

The blast was heard over a three-mile (five-kilometer) radius. Residents of Gugdi village and Panawara (Panawada) village in the Baitu area said that the blasts were so powerful that it caused cracks in the walls of their homes. However, no human casualties were reported.

"The explosions were loud... The blasts were heard five times and we saw some objects falling from the sky after an aircraft flew by... my house has developed cracks," said Manohar Singh, a resident of Gugdi village.

Police confirmed that this was not the first time massive blasts have been heard in the area. Villagers in nearby Sinleejageer (Sinli Jagir) in Barmer also reported in January that debris from a UFO fell from the sky after a loud "mysterious" blast was heard over the village. Villagers collected samples of the debris and sent them to the authorities for investigation. But security officials have refused to confirm what caused the blasts or the nature of the mysterious debris.

Thus, the matter remains a mystery to worried villagers, and it has sparked speculations in UFO circles.

Some sources also suggested the UFO could have been a Pakistani spy craft.

But some UFO enthusiasts have noted that the Barmer district is only about 300 miles from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, where mysterious metal balls fell from the sky earlier in the month.

Already, UFO conspiracy theorists are speculating that the Barmer incident could be India's version of the July 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, UFO incident. Conspiracy theorists say U.S. government officials had tried to cover up an alien UFO crash in Roswell with the story that the crashed object was only a meteorological weather balloon.

Claims that an extraterrestrial craft and alien beings were recovered at Roswell have made it the most famous UFO site in the world.

The Barmer UFO incident on Tuesday, January 26 came on the day India was celebrating its 67th Republic Day, with security forces across the country on a high alert.

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