I still don't understand why the military chap was holding the stone using a Tusky's paper bag...
Original meteorite must have been much larger before entering the earth's atmosphere where a good chunk burned up due to intense air friction (in fact this intense heat was what caused the shuttle Discovery to disintegrate in mid-air as it re-entered teh earth's atmosphere).
The documentaries I have seen after being charged exorbitantly by dstv say the burning meteors produce all sorts of noises (rumbling, explosion-like as was this particular one, etc) due to the loud sonic booms prodcued by the meteor travelling at extremely high velocities (Mach+).
@yesuwangu,
Luke 17:29 says 'But the day Lot left Sodom,fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all' and IMHO, I think these were meteorites.