Mystery Atlas1972 Valera Meteorite Fall
An L5 stony meteorite fall near Valera, Trujillo state, Venezuela, on the night of 15 October 1972, reportedly killing a cow on a farm; astronomer Ignacio Ferrin recovered the roughly 30-kilogram main mass and later obtained a notarised affidavit from a witness, though the affidavit was not sworn until 2001, decades after the event.
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Events
1972 Valera Meteorite Fall is frequently compared to Sylacauga Meteorite Strike — Commercial and collector sources often call Valera 'the only documented meteorite death,' a stronger claim than the surviving evidence, a late affidavit rather than contemporaneous documentation, actually supports.
Concepts & Beliefs
1972 Valera Meteorite Fall is an instance of Meteorite Fatality and Injury Claims — The meteorite itself is genuine and analysed, but the only witness affidavit describing the cow's death was notarised in 2001, nearly three decades after the 1972 fall, with no contemporaneous photographs of the scene.