342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949

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REPORT OF AN ABNORMAL PHENOMENON

Jan. 26, 1949.

CMO., Tokyo.

A telegram was received from the Takayama Weather Station (36°09'N, 137°15'E) stating as follows:

At about 7.40 p.m. on 25th, a remarkable glow was experienced to the southeast of this station. This glow moved southwestwards and then disappeared followed by a sound like thunder after a few minutes. This sound was rather loud in the vicinity of Osaka Town near this station. According to a report from Miya Village, the glow appeared there almost overhead and, a few minutes later, a sound resembling to thunder was heard from the south. Summing up the reports by eye-witnesses, this phenomenon might be the explosion of a meteor.

Also at Gifu, a glow was seen to the north-north-east at about the same instance as above, while in the Nagoya District Central Meteorological Observatory, no such a phenomenon was observed.

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