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

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.I.larch 14, 1948
Norman G. Uarkham
MAIN HOT£L, Pueblo, Colo
Chief ~ignal Of ficer
U. s. Army, ,ashington, D. C •
Norcatur, ~s., sky explosion
of lS February, 1946
To shc,,r a speculation regard­
ing tho above phenomenon and
another one of earlier date
and to call attention to
occurrences between the two
which have an appearance of
relationship whether coinci­
dental or not.
The geographical position of the Norcatur explosion s uggests possible
linka.!;8 with other occurrences happening inside latitooinal limits arbitrarily
demarkable between 43° 36 1 North (which is the latitooe of Ooise, Idaho)
and 36° 10 1 North ( the latitu:ie of Nashville, Tenn.)., a belt about 485
miles wide.
'lbis suegestion is gained from positions given for occurrences
happening between June 24., 1947 and February 18 , 1948, as s hall be
hereinaft er briefly described,
THE OOISE (Idaho) OBJECT-
This was seen either beginnin{.! or ending at 330 pm
24 June 1947 am was visible for 20 minutes. It was in the western sky,
was of comet-li~ appearance, and settled gradually toward the horizon ae
planetary bodiea set. It was seen bo.r Lt. Gov. Whitehead •u)j Chief Jus tice
Lartpert.
Its nature was unknmm .
The peculiarity which connects this object, for speculative purposes, with
the explosion of some unknown object over 1~orcatur, Kans ., on 18 l!'ebruary
1948 is the seeming of a relationship between the positions of the moon for
the two phenomena:
In the form2r case the moon was at the date of phenomenon, about 7%, 63
before the positionof First Quart er; on the second case i t was about 8%. 73
beyotxi the position of first quarter.
Since the Boise object was visible for 20 minutes before it sank this
argues it was about ten deil"ees above the horizon when fi?1J t seen.
Now
if a line be dra1'l'l westward and at ten degrees zenithward from the
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