Last update: 10 August 2025 (09:00 CEST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 8 August 2025 BRT laboratory tests at UFJF and Raman spectroscopy at the Centro Federal de Educa\u00e7\u00e3o Tecnol\u00f3gica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (Cefet\/RJ) confirmed that all of the found rocks of the alleged meteorite fall are of terrestrial origin (possibly limestone) and thus no enstatite meteorites, as initially supposed. This raises the question whether this whole impact event was staged to create some kind of media attention. The unusual way the plank is initially removed from the corral roof, almost as if somehow pulled up at the edge of the roof, and the delayed ‘impact sound’ as well as the abrupt camera movement might confirm this conclusion.<\/strong> Zucolotto nevertheless doesn’t completely rule out a meteorite fall: “Por ser que tenha sido um meteorito e que esteja por l\u00e1. Mas s\u00f3 com o tempo mesmo ou nunca ser\u00e1 achado.” (“It’s possible it was a meteorite and it’s there. But it’ll only be found with time, or it will never be found.”)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n