China — 14 January 616
A fireball kills 10 people among rebels
The History of the Sui Dynasty, 581-618 records a spectacular fireball that fell into a rebel’s camp, partly destroying it. This is interesting because many UFO accounts deal with enemies being frightened or persecuted by mysterious lights - such as when the Christians fought the Turks. This narrative leaves no doubt that the phenomenon had natural causes. The Chinese document states, “A large shooting star like a bushel fell onto the rebel Lu Ming-yueh’s camp. It destroyed his wall-attacking tower and crushed to death more than 10 people.”
Source: Kevin Yau, Paul Weissman and Donald Yeomans, “Meteorite falls in China anc? some related human casualty events,” Meteoritics 29 (1994): 867. Case: W478