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

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of February 18 over ncrtt.ern l\ansas was just t.hat, inasrmch as meteorites
have been recovered tron i t. 11
Thore were found , be(;ir nine 1.prU 211, first
sever al su.lla fra..,-en:.s JJ) to ore of 4 1/2 pounds .
Then a disturl ed
spot in a clover f'ield led to "the di i:giI1e up of a r i PC& of so e 109 po\l1llls
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edded about two feet in the soil. The st.one i s nhat is tenred aa an
"achondrite",
a technical name f or an unusual cy-pe or stony m teorite.
It is reported t o be of a tYJ
hi ch will detAriora~a rapidly.
A p otorrHph or t re trail of the meteor, r:l.'.lde by amateur p.otor,r ~her
Duane ,I. ~"fr117 of Nortor , shows tho vapor tridl left in the sky by t.he
exploaiol"'l of a ~eteor which was secl'I 1r Oklahooa, t,ew -exic o, Colorado,
Kansas, ard uebr.,~ka .
It wu m:.de at. uray 1s },oae, ni.Je mil,-.s rort·1 or
Norton, jlPt tour r.,inutes after the
teer XJ loded .
A ~r:n.cce of blue­
wliite smoktio remained in the sky £or an hour 1' ebruary Wth . '!'his pboto­
craph is in tile under lri i ent '1101.
Furthe r r emarke are contained in supplement .