Well...the crater is easy to confirm.
It left a 30+ meter wide [100 ft] crater?
Well...That's fairly easy to confirm.
Google Earth, anyone?
It also kills a theory that its an hypergolic-fueled
upper-stage of some Russian booster that crashed..
If it had been a Russian booster-stage, any residual
toxic fumes could explain the illnesses.
Meteorite crash?... Crater?...Widespread illnesses???...
Oh no! Time for me to rush to my survival bunker
in the Rockies...I have enough canned food, ammunition,
and diesel stored for seven years...
And I have my trusty 12-gauge pump-action.
Do not trespass!!! ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)