Indian authorities have claimed that a bus driver was killed and three other people were injured after a meteorite fell in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
If proven, it would be the first such death in recorded history.
Experts said other explanations were possible for the incident on Saturday in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
The impact of the object left a five-foot-deep crater in the ground and shattered window panes in a nearby building, killing the driver who was walking past.
The object weighed only 11 grams, the newspaper added, about as heavy as a AAA battery.
Images in local media showed a blueish rock, which Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister described as a "meteorite" - although scientists say this has not yet been proved.
An assistant professor at the Indian Astrophysics Institute in Bangalore said the rock could be a meteorite but further tests were needed.
If proven, it would be the first meteorite death of a human in recorded history, he said.
"Most of the meteors never reach the earth surface as they completely vaporise in the atmosphere," the assistant professor said.
"Hitting the Earth surface is very rare and there have been no deaths in recorded history."
He said the missile could be debris from a rocket or a space shuttle.
Meteors are particles of dust and rock that usually burn up as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere.
Those that do not burn up completely, surviving the fall to Earth, are known as meteorites.
