It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, wait — it’s just more space junk. And it may fall to Earth without warning, as people in two spots across the globe from each other were just reminded.

Authorities in Indonesia are investigating what they say is space debris found Monday in Indonesian Borneo at a palm oil plantation. Just days earlier, a sheriff’s office in Minnesota reported that state and federal agencies in the United States were examining what is “presumably a space object” found in a cornfield.

Most space debris reentering the atmosphere falls into oceans, and the fallen objects found over the past week did not cause injuries, according to the authorities who reported them.…