In the Middle Ages the “experts” thought farmers were crazy because they said rocks sometimes fall from the sky.
The “experts” said it couldn’t happen, it was just superstitious “little people” who didn’t know better.
Yup. That goes back all the way to Aristotle, with his fixed dome of sky. He claimed that meteorites were just stones lifted by the winds and dropped in elsewhere.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ensisheim-meteorite