Of course not. Would you recognize that the nondescript marble-sized stone in your hand was a meteorite? The pictures below are from a website selling stony meteorites. Can you honestly say yopu'd know these weren't jsut rocks? A nickle-iron meteorite, cut apart and acid treated is virtually impossible to fake. But these look like plain rocks to me.
If you want to hunt for meteorits, there are two typres of places to go:
1: Near known meteorite impact sites, such as Meteor Crater in Arizona. Good luck picking out the stony meteorite from Just Rocks, of course... 2: Atop glaciers, especially in Antarctica. A rock on top of a vast ice field stands a good chance to have been dropped there.
> Since no one was testing nuclear bombs it was determined that the register of energy releases was meteors impacting the surface of the earth.
Those were explosions in the upper atmosphere, not on the surface. Those high-altitude explosions regularly get into the kiloton-yield-range.