The 1868 Goalpara meteorite fall

Record summary

The Goalpara meteorite is associated with a nineteenth-century fall in Assam, usually dated to 1868, and appears in catalogues of Indian meteorites. It offers a geographically specific South Asian sky-event lead where an initially unfamiliar object was documented, recovered and classified as natural material. Such cases are relevant to UAP comparison because they show how observation, local testimony and physical evidence can converge—or fail to converge—over time. Historical details should be checked against early scientific reports and modern meteoritical databases, including the exact fall date and specimen history.