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Something is strange about this story. Something moving so fast is impossible to deflect, especially with your hand. To make it change course doesn't seem feasible.

Try deflecting a bullet with your hand without having it rip through. It doesn't work. This is way faster than a bullet.

LOL if you were hit by a grain of sand traveling 30,000mph there wouldn't be enough left of you to ID via dental records. Foot wide impact crater

More likely it slowed to terminal velocity after coming through the atmosphere and gave him his finger boo-boo.

allegedly; while confirmed by several family members.

My great aunt was out gardening in Jersey city during the 50's at dusk.
The story goes she was bending down to mess with the hose
when a small extra terrestrial ball (golf ball sized) of iron blazed right thru
her "beehive" type hairdo, and shot through the wood frame substructure under the house
... She made the local papers, the story goes on to say that several
groups of scientists fought long and hard for possession of the artifact.

Anyhow I just wanted to share that, I tend to believe it considering a few sources in the family and their character, nice find OP.

How does a meteor hit a boy in the hand, just giving him a "boo-boo" for someone to kiss, and yet tears a foot long scar in the pavement AFTER it *bounces* off his hand.

Wait a second...
Oh...my...gawd...we've found him! Superman does exist!

WE'RE SAVED!!

30,000 MPH? impossible..his habnd would been vaporized or ripped off his hand. It physically impossible for a rock traveleing tht fast to simply bounce off his hand, then re gian speed and make a foot crater. unless..just by chance, his hand jsut slightly touched the outer edge of it, giving him the sensation it bounced off his hand, as it continued to the ground. Their was aklot happeneing in such shrot a time frame that he could have watche everything as it happened! Its impossible, this sounds jsut like the governments magic bullet theory with the JFK assassination...the bullet entered, did some bogus loopty loop tricks, turned a few degree angles, did a 360 full, hitting the front seat senators hand, then bouncign off and entering the presidents brain... IMPOSSIBLE

Even after the meteorite slows down when entering the Earth's atmosphere, it's still too powerful to just slighty scrape the boy's hand and create a hole that size. This is science so I don't undestand why no one has really spoken up about the details yet. Surely something this spectacular and rare would generate immediate explanationsnfrom the science world.

How did they find that tiny little meteorite after it blew up all that pavement and probably got lodged in the ground? Forget looking for a needle in a haystack, that's like trying to find one specific piece of hay...

I find it hard to believe that it only left a small scare on his hand yet left a big creator on the road?

Doesnt add up!

Mikey

why are ya'll taking the word "bounce" so literally? do you actually expect the boy to be able to define what happened?

either a meteorite hit his hand or it didn't. it doens't make any difference whether or not he used the correct terms to describe the event.