[Partial description by M. Zucolotto, edited by J. Grossman; complete writeup will be published in late 2009]]

Among the Brazilian meteorites listed as “doubtful” in the British Museum catalogue is “Monte Alto”. The unconfirmed existence of an “aerolithe” in the region of Monte Alto mountain was first reported in a letter from priest José Dorme to the Museu Nacional and related by Orville Derby in 1888, in which he declared that the object was of the same nature of Bendego, however bigger than it.

In November, 2007, paleontologist Douglas Riff was led by archeologist Joaquim Perfeito to examine a strange rock at the entrance of a public school, named Marcelino Neves. Riff immediately noticed the similarity of this rock with the Bendego meteorite. It has a mass of 97 kg, and was found before 1954 by Mr. Francisco Cruz at the same site where the legendary meteorite, related by Dorme, was found.