From: Doug Roberts (Doug@nolimits.demon.co.uk)
Daily Telegraph
An object believed to be a meteorite hit an abandoned mobile home at Windsor, Ontario, at 5.30am yesterday, burning it to the ground, writes Adrian Berry, Science Correspondent.
Police said that firemen who went to the scene recovered the object, three times the size of a football. No injuries were reported.
If confirmed, this will be the first time that a meteorite has struck a building.
Earlier, a bluish-green flash, apparently from the blazing meteorite, illuminated the night sky over a 400-mile area from Michigan to New York State.
The Coast Guard received telephone calls from Saginaw Bay, about 110 miles north of Detroit, to the St. Lawrence River, about 400 miles to the east.
A witness near Syracuse, New York State, said: "It was about the size of an aeroplane, with an orange tail behind it, and at the top it seemed to have a crown of greenish light."