DOW-UAP-D088, ניתוח חיל האוויר של ארה"ב על עצמים מעופפים בארצות הברית, 101-172

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18 February 191,£

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‘oreatur, “ansas

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r M, R, Spehbiel account (taken from newspap er)

Occupation of obsorvor Edi tor

Norton, Kansas

n “oreatur, Kansas

rvor HN/S

aititudo 30 = 35 miles above earth

Speed N/S

Dirvetion of Plicht N/S

sound One big explosion ~ "afterwards a lot of little explosions"
sizo N/S

olor Bluish-white smoke smudye

she pre Mushroom
tod N/S
construction 4eteor

> trails Meme Bluish-white smoke smudge
‘ther conditions “/S

/ On clouds Nfs

ones or phe

stographs Photo of vapor trail left in sky by explosion
Nannor of disappearnnco Disintegration

Xomarks: Oscar Monnig, of the Texas Observers, .mateur Astronomy, 1010
Morningside Drive, Ft, Worth,

offers "tangible proof that the fireball

of February 1& over narthern 4Sansas was just that, inasmuch as meteorites
have been recovered from it." There were found,

berinning April 2h, first
several smaller fragnrents up to one of | 1/2

t
pounds. Then a disturbed
spot in a clover field led to the digging up of a riece of sone 109 pounds
embedded about two feet in the soil. The stone is what is termed as an
"achondrite", a technical name for an wusual type of stony metecrite.

It is reported to be of a type which will deteriorate rapidly.

& photograph of the trail of the meteor, made by amateur photographer
Duane J, Wray of Nortor, shows the vapor trail left in th: sky by the
explosion of a meteor which was seen is Oklahoma, New “exico, Colorado,
Kansas, ard “ebraska. It was mde at Wray's home, nine miles north of
Norton, just four minutes after the meteor xploded, A smulge of blu-
widte smoke remained in the sky for an how February 16th, This photo-
graph is in file wider incident #101,

Further remarks are contained in supplement.

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