From The Gentleman's Magazine 1796
Several persons at Wold Cottage,
in Yorkshire, Dec. 13, 1795, heard various
noises in the air, like pistols, or distant guns at sea, felt two distinct concussions
of the earth, and heard a hissing noise passing through the air; and
a labouring man plainly saw that something
was so passing, and beheld a stone descending and striking
into the ground, which flew up all about him, and, in falling, sparks of fire
seemed to fly from it. Afterwards he went to the place, in common with others
who had witnessed part of the phaenomenon, and dug the stone up from
the place where it was buried about 21 inches deep. It smelled, as is said,
very strongly of sulphur when it was dug up, and was even warm, and smoked.
