Case file · Cosmic event
The L'Aigle meteorite shower
On 26 April 1803, some 3,000 stones fell around L'Aigle in Normandy; Jean-Baptiste Biot's report proved to the scientific world that stones really fall from the sky.
1803 CE · 48.77, 0.63 · status: explained
The account
The French Academy of Sciences sent Biot, who mapped the strewn field and interviewed villagers. Before this, most scholars dismissed 'thunderstones' as peasant superstition.