Circa December 11, 1935. Only five years after the Brazilian event, a large bolide apparently smashed into the jungle of Guyana. The bolide and apparent impact area were observed by a gold prospector, a Dr. G. Davidson. We could see some areas that had been swept down by some great force, trees twisted off some 25 feet above the ground. We tried to enter one of these areas but the bush was in such a tangle that we had to give it up.
Photographs accompanying the articles confirm some of the devastation.
Scientists in Brazil's northeastern state of Piaui are baffled by a crater that was punched into the tropical rain forest shortly after witnesses reported seeing a bright light streak across the sky. Physicist Paulo Frota of the University of Piaui believes it was caused by a block of ice from a comet because the surrounding vegetation is not burned and the crater's rim is not raised. New Scientist , p. 12, November 11, 1995. William R. Corliss Other Sites of Interest SIS . Catastrophism, archaeoastronomy, ancient history, mythology and astronomy.