* Astronomy

Bakerooddin Shaikh of Gopalpur, Pergunna Selimabud, deposed :- On Tuesday last (23rd May) at about 4 dundo in the evening (ie about 6 o'clock PM) I had been to the field to fetch home my cattle. It was very cloudy at the time. The clouds were particularly dense to the south. All of a sudden a hissing noise was heard from south east corner, and something dark fell on the ground about 5 or 6 nols (about 33 feet) off from the place where i was standing. i approached the spot, and sound that there was a hole in the ground. i took up the peg (loree) to which the cow was tied and put it into the hole. i touched something in the bottom of the hole which sounded like [] (vitrified brick. I called Alef [Shaikh] to see it. It came in an oblique direction from the south side where the cloud was the thickest. Alef came and saw the hole. The cow had scampered off, just as the stone fell about 2 qubits from the spot where the cow was, but it did not hurt her. I alone saw the fall. It did not fall in a perpendicular line. There are trees at the place, but none were injured : the sound was like that made by the flight of a vulture or several vultures. I saw something dark falling on the earth. There was no smoke, no light, nor any smell. I can't describe further : no sound nor any roaring of the cloud was perceptible before the fall. I believe except Alef and myself there was none else on the kola (field) at the time. Alef was about 5 or 6 russees off when it fell. We picked up the stone ; it had buried itself seventeen or eighteen ungoolies (about 15 inches) deep under the ground. The hole was about 7 or 8 ungoolies wide at the mouth, but it was not straight, but a little inclined to one side. The stone was not visible from above the hole. I could feel it by the stick. When we picked it up it was warm, not very hot. I picked it up after it had been in the hole for about one dundo, or the time occupied by walking eleven russees (440 yards) for a khunta, which had to be brought from a neighbouring house before we could dig it out.
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