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On 8 November 2025 the first ad of a found meteorite was published on the Russian classified ad website Avito. One meteorite mass (~413-500 g) shattered a flat red tin rooftop in eastern Okulovka (\u041e\u043a\u0443\u043b\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430), fragmented into several pieces (144 g, 52 g, 32 g, 45 g, 83 g, 63 g and many smaller ones which had remained inside the broken wooden roof after the discovery of the hole and were all removed later when the roof was cut). The home owners were reportedly awake at the time of the fall and heard a loud crash but thought it was the neighbors. Later that day they found some crumbs and fine dust in the yard next to the roof but thought that children had played there and had spilled some concrete dust. The ~10-centimetre hole in the roof was probably discovered on 29 October. It was reportedly discovered by accident that day when the home owner for the first time noticed some kind of stain on the roof and then climbed up to have a look. He first thought that a bird had dropped a rock on their roof. The meteorite fragments from the hole in the roof partly broke into smaller pieces when the home owners removed them. Other smaller meteorite fragments were found in the yard. Until the discovery of the hole with the meteorite in the roof the home owners had not heard anything about a bolide or meteorite fall in the area. Only then they became aware of relevant media reports. The meteorite fragments were offered on Avito for less than a day by a woman called Tatyana before the ad was automatically removed by the website for being placed in the wrong category. According to the ad the fall location was in Okulovka<\/a>. The ad was first seen by Evgeniy Trofimov who contacted the woman and was sent photos. Trofimow enabled scientific research of the meteorite by establishing the first contact between Tatyana and the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI RAS). The homeowner then apparently gave about a fifth of the found meteorite fragments to GEOKHI RAS for scientific analysis but refuses to talk to media. The first three fragments (7.775 g, 6.192 g and 2.322 g (used for thin section)) of a larger fragment were sent to the Moscow laboratory on 10 November and on 18 November 2025 other fragments were delivered. Ural Federal University (UrFU\/\u0423\u0440\u0424\u0423) received a 33.2-gram fragment for analysis. GEOKHI’s Konstantin Ryazantsev and Dmitry Sadilenko visited the fall site and the fall region. They agreed to purchase the recovered meteorite samples. The roof of the house has already been repaired. The home owners insisted that they wanted to remain anonymous at all costs. An application for a MetBull registration is planned in the near future since the classification analyses are almost finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a proper MetBull registration of any ordinary chondrite as a confirmed fall we usually recommend radioisotope analyses to confirm a very young terrestrial age of the found meteorite fragments and thus a definite connection to the observed bolide on 27 October 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On 20 November 2025 at 15:00 MSK (12:00 UTC) a press conference on the meteorite fall was held in the Great Conference Hall of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geochemical Institute. Kirill Lorentz (\u041a\u0438\u0440\u0438\u043b\u043b \u041b\u043e\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0446), Head of the Laboratory of Meteoritics and Cosmochemistry at the Geophysical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Konstantin Ryazantsev (\u041a\u043e\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0438\u043d \u0420\u044f\u0437\u0430\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432), a research fellow at the laboratory who was involved in the search, spoke at the press conference. From 20\/21 November 2025 twenty-two larger and many smaller meteorite fragments, the cut-out part of the roof containing the impact hole, the cut-out pierced wooden roof beam and a meteorite thin section have been exhibited in the Museum of the History of the Universe (\u041c\u0443\u0437\u0435\u0439 \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u041c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f) in Moscow. On 23 December 2025 the meteorite fall was registered as confirmed fall Okulovka<\/strong><\/a> (LL6, S2) in the database of the Meteoritical Bulletin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n