After much speculation, officials say it was debris from a Russian rocket returning into Earth's atmosphere.
At first he thought it was debris.
"It is dangerous for the driver and for the people behind, whether it is debris hitting the car or the tyre belt hitting the driver".
"It has been confirmed that it is debris from an aircraft bearing red and white colors," Murjatmodjo added, referring to markings that correspond with those used by AirAsia planes.
There's debris everywhere".
As McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh put it: "There is debris; there are (kerb) edges you can catch with a tyre.
But examined on board, none of it proved to be debris from the missing plane, just the ordinary garbage swirling around the ocean.
"I can only ascertain that it's plane debris," Liow said.
He has claimed that the record is "about Earth, and the pollution of space: it's about debris" and that it was originally going to be a "state of the planet concept album" before the band decided against it.
It should be obvious that in a flooded river there will be debris, but it appears the system didn't take account of something that should be obvious".
