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FIVE-STATE WHATZIT
Well, It Sure Was
Some Ball of Fire
It has been pretty well established today that the "mass of
flaming, incandescent matel'ial" which flashed across the sky
over Washington and five eastern-states last night was a meteor,
a flying saucel' "as big as a washtub," or a mass of flaming, in­
candescent material.
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The
Naval
Observatory,
the
Weather Bureau and observers at
National Airport lean toward the
meteor theory.
Scores of Washingtonians, who
saw it, leaned in all directions.
Police remained stolidJy upright,
and the FBI had no comment.
HOW IT LOOKED
But citizens here, in Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl­
vania and Ohio couldn't be silenced.
They said:
• "Suddenly this
thing
came
swooping down from the eastern
skies. It looked like it was right
.above the housetops. It was a ball
o! bright greenish fire with a long
tail." (This was a housewife).
• "I thought it was a flying
saucer. I thought it \vas a flare at
first-that is, I thought it was a
flare until the darned thing swooped
down- and then up again. It seemed
to follow the contours of the road.''
(Army veteran).
• "It looked at first look like a
P,lane on fire, it was that big. It
was sun-colored with a tail." (Sub­
urbanite.)
• Shaped like a sta1· "about as big
as the inside of a tennis raclcet."
{12-year-oJd boy.)
SHOCICING
Four Frederick farmers saw "a
ball shooting across the horizon."
Near Washington, three United
Press correspondents said it was like
this:
• "A rocket with a fiery tall ...
It shocked us, it lool<ed so close."
(Frank Eleazer.)
• "A big magnesium flare . . . It
gave off sparks." (Robe1·t Loftus.)
• It plunged out ot the sky "very
fast," like a plane shot down in the
war. It was trailing a tail of
flame."- (John A. Goldsmith.)
George Lincoln, of 756 S. Green­
brier-st, Arlington, saw something
"about as big as a washtub. I was
sure it was going to crash, some
place," he said.
A Maryland state trooper, sitting
out his lonely vigil atop Negro
Mountain in far Western Maryland,
said "it" passed over him, too.
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