The earliest claim of a person being hit by a meteorite comes from 1677 in a manuscript published at Tortona, Italy, which tells of a Milanese friar who was killed by one, although its veracity is unknown.[4] In 1992 a small meteorite fragment (3 g) hit a young Ugandan boy in Mbale,[5] but it had been slowed down by a tree and did not cause any injury.