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eee, of February 18 over narthern Kansas was just that, inasmuch as meteorites have been recovered from it." There were found, beginning April 2), first several smaller fragments up to one of 1/2 pounds. ‘Then a disturbed spot in a clover field led to the digging up of a piece of some 109 pounds embedded about two feet in the soil. The stone is what is termed as an “aehondrite", a technical name for an unusual type of stony meteorite. It is reported to be of a type which will deteriorate rapidly. A photograph of the trail of the meteor, made by amateur photographer Duane W. Wray of Norton, sho…

vd EXHIBITB Sea Reichel 2" alan Statement taken from Leland Sammons } My name is Leland Sammons, and 1 live on a farm 1) miles sockton and 1 mile north, off SB 2 ‘ a es ee On February 18 at about 5 P.M., I was standing near my hog=pen about 100! east of my house, when I heard the pheasants raising a disturbance and the chickens all rushed to the chicken-house. I looked around toward the house to see what was causing it and saw something hovering just above the house, I ran towardthe house, and it then lowered over the north end of the house and settled toward the ground. Iwas then very near it…

‘ «= Ay -~ ‘ ‘ (COPY) @ ® Pueblo, Colorado February 20, 19,8 Office of the Chief. of Staff ' U. S. Army Subject: Explosion in the sky near Noreatur, “ans, 4300 poem. (MST) February 18, 1918 Purpose: To call attention to some peculiarities in connection, whether coincidental @ not According to an AP bulletin appearing in the Pueblo CHIEFTAIN for February 18, 1948, some object was seen moving eastward across the sky on the late afternoon of February 1%th, and when this thing reached a position approximate to Norcatur, Kansas, exploded, or disrupted, or disappeared. ‘The ex- plosion is said to ha…

ie 1°e It is held by rocketry experts (example, WILLY LEY - see his ROCKETS, p. 192, diagram and note in connection there- with) that it would take about 100 hours for a rocket-craft to negotiate the distance from Earth to Moon, Prior to its explosion over Norcatur, this object of Feb. 1th was variously reported as a "falling plane", a "jet plane", and a “ball of fire", It is said by some to have left a trail of smoke behind it. It is the suggestion of this writer that the Army collect and assimilate reports on this object, with a view to determining where it was seen as an object trailing smo…

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