Bhopal, Apr 2 (PTI) Even as several people took to social media on Saturday to upload videos of burning objects falling from the sky in several parts of Madhya Pradesh, a top functionary of the Ujjain-based Jiwaji Observatory said it was a common phenomenon possibly involving meteorites.

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Reports of people seeing these burning objects falling from the sky have come in from Barwani, Bhopal, Indore, Betul and Dhar.

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Rajendra Gupta, Superintendent of the 300-year-old Jiwaji Observatory in Ujjain, however, said, "This appears to be ulkapind (meteorites). Their fall is common."

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