[2] The meteor fall was widely witnessed[3] and reported in newspaper accounts at the time.

[4] Eyewitnesses reported three loud explosions with stone fragments falling in at least six locations.

[5][6] Currently none of the strewn field (the debris field where the bulk of the fragments fell) was located on is in the town of Weston, but is primarily located in neighboring Easton.

[4] Fragments from the fall were collected, documented, and chemically analyzed by Yale University professors Benjamin Silliman and James Luce Kingsley.

[4] The meteorite was also written about, at the time, by Nathaniel Bowditch, calculating the size and trajectory of the meteor.