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28937938

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Ball of Fire Seen In Southern Skies

Object, Visible 500 Miles, Quickly Burns Out

NEW ORLEANS, June 23 (UP), A great ball of fire lasted for 500 miles and was a few seconds high in the southern sky tonight and then glimmered out, leaving a curving trail of glowing vapor.

N. R. HALL, radio controller of the Civil Aeronautics Administration here, said the glimmering object was seen from Tunica, Miss., Houston, Tex., and a plane 250 miles southward over the Gulf of Mexico.

In Tunica, Miss., Fireman Bert Keyes said: "It looked like a grapefruit and was spouting fire like a roman candle and was followed by a white vapor trail. It made a noise and then a white light came on."

A. E. Alme, United States weather observer here, said he saw an object of "tremendous brilliance" in the western sky at 7:40 p. m., C. S. T. "It was more brilliant than anything I have ever seen," Mr. Alme said. "It burned out in two or three seconds. It left a long white smoke or vapor trail which is something else I have never seen a meteor do."

[1950-51(?)]

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