Disputed
The Brixton iron spheroid
After a violent thunderstorm on 17 August 1887, a round lump of iron about two inches across turned up in a Brixton garden. The chemist who tested it could not match it to meteorites.
After a heavy thunderstorm on 17 August 1887, someone found a rounded iron object in a garden at Brixton. The London Times reported it on 1 February 1888, and Charles Fort retold it in The Book of the Damned. It was a flattened sphere, about two inches across at its widest. Fort leaves open whether human hands made it.
A chemist analysed it and could not identify it as genuine meteoritic material. The Times printed his name and address, Mr. J. James Morgan of Ebbw Vale.
"In the London _Times_, Feb. 1, 1888, it is said that a roundish object of iron had been found, "after a violent thunderstorm," in a garden at Brixton, Aug. 17, 1887. It was analyzed by a chemist, who could not identify it as true meteoritic material. Whether a product of workmanship like human workmanship or not, this object is described as an oblate spheroid, about two inches across its major diameter. The chemist's name and address are given: Mr. J. James Morgan: Ebbw Vale."