On 22 January 1997, Lottie Williams was walking through a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a small scrap of blackened fibreglass tapped her shoulder and fell into the grass; it was identified as debris from a Delta II rocket stage launched nine months earlier, making her the only person known to have been struck by falling space junk.

On 22 January 1997, Lottie Williams was walking through a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a small scrap of blackened fibreglass tapped her shoulder and fell into the grass; it was identified as debris from a Delta II rocket stage launched nine months earlier, making her the only person known to have been struck by falling space junk.

The fragment that brushed Lottie Williams matched Delta II insulation in composition, timing and ground track, although it carried no serial number tying it individually to the stage.