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* Lampshaded in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': after crashing the time machine into a barn, Marty emerges to find himself face to face with a farmer with a shotgun, and the farmer's son holding a comic book depicting a crashed alien ship and a figure wearing a space suit startlingly similar to Marty's.

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* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' was the plot set up as a meteor crashed to Earth and the bacteria inside of it evolved rapidly into alien life forms to live on Earth.

* In the backstory of ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', a meteor crashed into Perdido Beach's nuclear power plant and killed a worker there, which turned out to contain [[spoiler: a being created by aliens to spread life to other worlds, which is [[NuclearNasty mutated by the radiation]] to become [[EldritchAbomination the Gaiaphage,]] which becomes a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent as well as the BigBad of the series.]]

* ''Film/ItCameFromOuterSpace'' begins with a meteor-like object crashing near a small town. A local scientist named John Putman and his girlfriend investigate, thinking it's a UFO.

* Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' starts this way, with the Martians' cylinders falling to Earth after being launched from some giant cannon back on their own world.

* ''Fanfic/NoStarsInSight'': In Chapter 4, we're shown Formora's perspective as she witnesses Ikharos's jumpship, a Cabal frigate, two Scornships, and pieces of the ''Exodus'' colony ship all fall from the sky after being spit out by a NegativeSpaceWedgie. She initially mistakes them for shooting stars but quickly realizes that they're something entirely new.

* ''Fanfic/NoStarsInSight'': In Chapter 4, we're shown Formora's perspective as she witnesses Ikharos's jumpship, a Cabal frigate, two Scornships, and pieces of the ''Exodus'' colony ship all fall from the sky after being spit out by the anomaly. She initially mistakes them for shooting stars but quickly realizes that they're something entirely new.

* "Look to the Skies" by Music/CreatureFeature. If you listen closely, it's a song about ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''. It also provides the page quote.

* In ''Literature/TheAndromedaStrain'', a [[ThePlague plague]] carrying meteor crashes into a satellite, knocking it from orbit, a recovery team is dispatched to retrieve it; during a live radio communication the team members suddenly die. Aerial surveillance reveals that everyone in the town closest to where the satellite landed, is apparently dead. This has also been adapted to film twice.

** It has a unique one at the start of the Skypiea arc, a huge Galleon comes crashing down from the sky right next to the Strawhat crew nearly capsizing their ship, once they recover they immediately start investigating the wreckage and find items setting them up for their next adventure.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Clark Kent found [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El]] when he saw a rocket crashing down to Earth and flew to the landing site to investigate. Inside the rocket he found a teenager girl who was dressed like him and happened to be his cousin.

** In the first pages of ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 Supergirl Volume 2]]'', Kara retells how she crashed on Earth and Superman met her.

* When Creator/MarvelComics wanted to bring ComicBook/JeanGrey back from the dead, they had her hibernating in a cocoon at the Jamaica Bay crash site where Phoenix emerged.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanApocalypse'': Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} lands in Gotham harbor. Adapted from "The Supergirl from Krypton" Comic.

** And to a lesser (or perhaps greater) extent, according to the opening cinematic, all life on the player's planet originated in cell-stage creatures that [[ItCameFromTheSky Came From The Sky]] via meteorite. Where ''that'' came from is anybody's guess.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', [[spoiler:Oocco and her son come from the [[FloatingContinent City in the Sky]], the last dungeon level before [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Hyrule Castle]]. She fell off, and eventually gave up hope of getting back to the sky until she met Link]].
* A random encounter in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has the party arrive at the site of a meteorite strike where two farmers have found a baby and decide to adopt it. The party itself finds a piece of metal that can be turned into the best melee weapon in the original campaign.
** And as should be fairly obvious, the entire scene is a ShoutOut to Comicbook/{{Superman}}.

* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'': The game starts off with a meteorite crashing near Ness' house.

* Thor's hammer in the live-action film of ''Film/{{Thor}}''.

An object thought to be a meteorite will come crashing down to earth leaving a large crater, usually in the middle of nowhere, but farms are a popular target as well. The event will be noticed by someone (even in the middle of nowhere) who will be the first on scene to investigate (bonus points if it's a farmer with a shotgun).

* The Bakugan Cards from ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' are described by Dan as something like this in the first intro (see the Quotes page for that).

* In ''Manga/AngelCrush'', Gale comes crashing from the sky into Faye's house.

** According to his origin story, this is how he was adopted by the Kent family.

** ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis Kara]]'''s origin story, ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', had her found by Batman and Superman.

** In ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber252'', Clark Kent found [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El]] when he saw a rocket crashing down to Earth and flew to the landing site to investigate. Inside the rocket he found a teenager girl who was dressed like him and happened to be his cousin.

* ''Film/MenInBlack'' had "The Bug" and The AnimatedSeries had lots of background stories.
* Similarly in the ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' remake movie, where it's the human ship at the bottom of the crater.

Also see MagicMeteor, ThunderboltIron and ImportedAlienPhlebotinum.

* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer,'' the resource "Tiberium" arrlives by meteorite strike on the banks of the Tiber River, Italy. It's a literal [[GreenRocks green rock]] that can be processed into fuel or metal; and since its self-replicating, it's a renewable resource. Predictably, this leads to a war over its control; between the [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower Global Defense Initiative]], who want to contain it, and [[{{Cult}} The Brotherhood of Nod]] who want to exploit it as a catalyst to human evolution.
** In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars,'' the Scrin can call down a tiberium meteorite as one of their SupportPowers. It causes heavy damage and leaves a tiberium patch. This can be used offensively (bomb the enemy base, preferrably the barracks so they can't deploy soldiers) or defensively (bomb an invading army, leaving the tiberium as an impromptou minefield).