“There was a noise like a big explosion,” Baskar told the Wall Street Journal. “It was an abnormal sound that could be heard till at least 3 kilometers [about 2 miles] away,” he noted.
Baskar said there were tiny rock fragments at the site that were “blue-ish black” in color.
According to NASA, there is no record “in modern times of any person being killed by a meteorite.”
“An individual’s chance of being killed by a meteorite is small, but the risk increases with the size of the impacting comet or asteroid,” NASA adds on its website.
