Island of Lethy, India Globe of fire with residue — 24 March 1718
A globe of fire appeared to drop a load of gelatinous substance. The strange object came
out of the sky and touched the ground on Lethy Island in the East Indies. Witnesses who approached the site found a “jelly-like mass, silvery and scaly.” Until the nature of “shooting stars” was understood in the 19th century, people thought that any blobs of jelly-like material found in their fields were related to meteors.
Source: A Catalogue of Meteorites and Fireballs, from A.D. 2 to A.D. 1860, compiled by R. P. Greg, Esq., F. G. S, for the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1860. Case: W511