Cuba reports meteorite strike

There were two strong explosions reported over of Vinales, and the Pinar del Rio area in western Cuba on Friday afternoon before small black stones fell to the ground, witnesses said. The largest fragment of about 11 centimeters (4 inches) was found in a small crater.

The head of Cuba's Institute of Geophysics said a meteorite or meteorite fragments struck an area near the Mural of Prehistory in Vinales and that a team was heading to the area to take samples.

At the same time, people in the city of Matanzas, east of the capital Havana saw a sphere about a meter in diameter fall into the sea.