* Astronomy

Title: Deaths reported as from a meteor
Authors: Wylie, C. C.

Meteor Kills Three

Paris, July 5 [1934]

"A blazing meteor is believed to have caused the destruction by fire of a building in a village near Besancon. According to eye-witnesses the meteor struck the roof of the house, a loud detonation followed and flames burst out so suddenly that three occupants perished in them, while two others were forced to jump from a second story window, were seriously injured." 
The item interested us because it reports two things for which as yet no report has been authenticated. First it reports that three people were killed, directly or indirectly, by the meteor. There is as yet no definite authenticated report of death or injury which can be attributed to a meteor. Another reason for investigating this newspaper item is the report that the meteor set fire to a building. There is no authenticated report of a meteor setting fire to anything.
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