Update
2-17-5

 

I attempted to do some light investigation upon this query and found another object {somewhat} similar in appearance.

A Listener

Strange Metal Orb
Found in Texas
By Roger Arrick

http://www.robotics.com/orb/

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A few interesting files located on similar metal spheres:

 

Quite a lot of metal spheres come down as space debris... many are "pressure tanks" of

one sort or another...

http://www.reentrynews.com/recovered.html

 

 

Remember this one? Turned out to be a kind of clog-prevention device that rolled through oil pipelines... several washed ashore in South Carolina a few years ago and really puzzled everyone. These were three feet in diameter, however. They did not move on their own, like the metal sphere mentioned below.

 

Hi Jeff

 

I have written to various UFO researchers about some newspaper clippings from 1973-74 range. Although J. Allen Hynek investigated it, there don't seem to be anything written anywhere! The only response I ever received was from Stanton Friedman who remembers it to be explained as something for rocket fuel storage. What do you think?

 

Attached are jpeg files of the original newpaper clippings.