Paper · S7779
Meteorite falls in China and some related human casualty events
Yau, Weissman and Yeomans examine historical Chinese meteorite reports and disputed casualty accounts. Their concluding discussion attributes apparent frequency changes to reporting biases. They cannot verify the historical casualty claims; statistical and flux comparisons depend on assumptions that this project has not tested.
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A specialist read all eight whole ADS scan pages at original detail, zero-based 0–7/printed 864–871: body, four figures, two tables, two equations, acknowledgments and 47 bibliography entries. Root reviewed the final analytical findings and retained-byte evidence; root did not directly view the article. Meteoritics 29(6), 864–871, DOI 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1994.tb01101.x. Publisher metadata supplies November 1994, issue and DOI; the scan gives 1994, receipt March 18 and revised acceptance August 9. The study compiles 337 historical records from 700 BC to 1920, including 274 after 1300. Conditional statistical and flux comparisons were reviewed without reproducing calculations or receiving underlying records. Discussion on page 870 attributes apparent frequency differences to reporting biases, qualifying earlier suggestions of real variation. Casualty groups and conflicting dates remain unverifiable historical reports, with meteor, hail, structural-collapse and military alternatives. This completes the supplied article rendition; cited originals and independent scientific validation remain outstanding.
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- Chinese chronicles, Chen and Xuan/Xia catalogues, raw counts, population inputs, code, comparison observations and material specimens were not acquired. Forty-seven bibliography entries were read as citations, not their original bodies.
- Figure 1’s century/decade wording and 1900 versus 1920 extent differ; the Yunnan casualty group has multiple date/location versions. Reconstructed geography and tiny map lettering remain qualified. Uniform-bin assumptions and failure to reject a distribution difference establish no equivalence or controlled flux change.
- The authors state that they cannot confirm or refute the historical casualty accounts. No patient records, verified diagnoses, treatment procedures or individual-risk recommendations were collected or produced.
- Cheng Shen’s reported 1064 stone transfer to a temple is historical testimony without a received artifact or custody record. NASA programme support and JPL/Caltech contract acknowledgments establish no secret UAP tasking, achieved access or institutional endorsement. Grant identifiers and original communications are absent.
- ADS scan receipt does not authenticate the physical journal master, correction history or unrestricted reuse rights. Underlying historical records, cited studies and material samples remain absent. Reading this paper provides no independent UAP detection, programme, case, book, AV or truth credit.
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Kevin Yau, Paul Weissman, Donald Yeomans. Meteorite falls in China and some related human casualty events. November 1994. BioParity S7779. https://bioparity.io/sources/S7779Record data (JSON)