It fell on June 30, 1957, around 17:00 on the Monjolo farm, in Martinho Campos, near Ibitira. The meteorite was only recovered because an amateur astronomer watched the fall and the César Lattes Center for Astronomical Studies (now CEAMIG, located at Colégio Santo Agostinho in Belo Horizonte), sent letters to all city halls in the region asking the direction in which the bolide went . All kinds of evidence indicated the end point of the trajectory for the Martinho Campos area, near the village of Ibitira, with only about 200 inhabitants at the time. At Fazenda Monjolo, near Ibitira, the sound of thunder was followed by a whistle like the passing of a bullet, immediately followed by the sound of something falling on the ground, a boy in the region heard the noise and saw the cattle running from the pasture over the hill into the valley. The search carried out by observers at the center, in the hunt for fragments of the meteorite, was unsuccessful, given that the place of fall is a difficult savannah to investigate. So they returned to Belo-Horizonte, where they organized a caravan for the search, which can only continue on the 3rd August. When they returned to Ibitira, they were informed that a farmer, while gathering firewood in capoeira, had found a strange stone that he had picked up and given to the local pharmacist. It was a meteorite of about 2.5 kg with a shiny black outer layer typical of some types of achondrites, although the internal vesicular structure differed from all meteorites known until then. The analysis was carried out by the Technological Institute of Belo Horizonte, which despite having given the petrological description, did not classify it as a meteorite. The publication and recognition was given in December 1957 in the Meteoritical Bulletin nº 6. Description obtained in the documents of M. E. Zucolotto.