U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 101-172

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A detonnined ettort is umer way to chock up on Sammons ' veracity
( and sanity!)
I hove neither seen nor talknd to -'aMnOna, but another Qlllber
or he Institute of J.lcteoritics pnrty (Dr. D. M. Gragg, an Instructor in the
epo "t.l'tent or Mathematics) l'mO did so believes Samons (who is a well- to-do
!armor ) to be sincere am very b~ly scared .
Or course nearness to a bi&
111eteor1te fall would scare one as b:id~ as an atom bomb; but •1ow could it
produce such testimony as
morns".
The
11mP.te itic" incidents fr
the great fall ot 1~5,
>veraber 29
(from "1ii ch no meteorites have been recover ed eithP.r !) throuih tho sequonce
of ai ilar falls culminating in the Four Com~rs and 'lorcatur inci~ents,
coupled With .,uch t incs as the Ussuri incident, convince me that ei. t 11er
t 1.3 earth 1:; unrfer a rro--•
nusual cosmic bombardNnt or t"18TIY ot the
fireballs are not meteorites at all. While I still cling to the 1D1Jteoritic
h:,pothes1!1, it is clear that which evP-r Alternative is tie ri,1lt one, t he
situation c-ries alou::t for thoroll(;h i nvestigation.
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