Startling news came out of India this week after it was reported that a meteorite struck a college campus, killing a bus driver and injuring three people. However, NASA is saying that what crashed to the Earth wasn’t a meteorite at all.

On Saturday, a strange projectile object plummeted from the sky and crashed into the ground.

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A 40-year-old man identified only asKamarahjwas , CNN reported.

Indian authorities inspect the site of a suspected meteorite a day after it smashed into a college campus on Feb. 6, 2016, in Vellore district in southern Tamil Nadu state. The impact killed a bus driver and injured three others on February 6. If proven, it would be the first such death in recorded history.

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Kamaraj, a bus driver who worked on the campus, died from injuries he sustained while, reports NDTV. Glass in the window panes of buildings and bus windows shattered from the violent impact.

Officials recovered the small blue object, described as being hard, jagged and small enough to be held in a closed hand.

"The object the police have recovered from the site would have to undergo chemical analysis" to confirm its origin, said Indian Institute of Astrophysics dean Professor G.C. Anupama.

in early reports and witness accounts described an explosion, reports The New York Times.

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“Initial assessments, based on photos posted online, are not consistent with something from space. Small meteorites do not start fires or cause explosions when they hit the ground,” said NASA in a statement. “To form a crater the size of what has been posted online would have required a meteorite.

The image above shows the object taken from the impact site.

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NASA scientists say that the photographs posted online were more consistent with a land based explosion than with something from space. According to NASA planetary defense officer Lindley Johnson, death by a meteorite impact is so rare that one has yet to be scientifically confirmed in recorded history.

“There have been reports of injuries, but even those were extremely rare before the Chelyabinsk event three years ago,” said Johnson.

The Times of India reports that Chief Minister J. Jayalithaa has promised .

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