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I call shennanigans.
Pea-sized? Like, say, a small-caliber bullet? What velocity would it have for it to leave a "foot-wide crater" in hard ground? My guess is high enough to tear off any human arm that got in the way.
And to still be hot? It must have been travelling mighty fast to retain any heat after passing through the very cold upper atmosphere. If it's travelling that fast, it can only have been part of a much larger object, else it would have completely burned away before impact.
Most small objects which have survived upper atmospheric entry intact are in freefall, with a ballistic trajectory. Some have been witnessed to bounce upon impact with the ground, and often still have frost on them. For it to be otherwise, the crater would likely look a lot more like a certain one in Arizona.
This "story" is completely bogus in my opinion.
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