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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

0 Wes Balloon
mae elel- 962 Nebraskagd South Dake O Prabably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION G Fesamy Settoon
Local MXGroun d- Vi sucl OD Ground-Rador = Brclaaty Diets -
cmt__19/0245 AXKAi ~ Vi sual © Air-intercep! Radar |2 Possibly Aircraft
5. ‘PHOTOS Je OUR WwW A tronomical |
x Was As
0 Yes fF Probably ReronemmgQreor
Ne ‘ ivilian Militar G Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE (SO
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
O Unknown
not rptd one NW
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1}. COMMENTS

Multiple rpts of obj believed to have

Rpting officer contacted in
hit Parker Peak, South Dakota,

eféort to determine if meteor

Exploded. Described as meteor like landed and any possibility of
trailing a cone of fire about eight times// recovery. Efforts were
longer than main body. Lit up area negative, SPADATS contacted
about 100 miles around, Some obsvrs and no decays this date. (Going
rptd hissing sound accompanied the West anyway) Multiple sighting
object. of meteor, —

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Two. Ogallala vouths report-; “We've had.a lot of | peopl

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ry 1,-, ed: seei ighted unidenti-
taj fied flying object fall from the}them about it, and a lot of,
ky about the same time that} the
‘hesidents of northwest and! about it to be sure we sa

Nebraska and
front ite estern South Dakota re-
ported seeing a lighted object
crossing the sky.
“The two boy
ve, 16, and

it moving,
move, I’m sure of it.

““Two kids around school

y saw it coming down —

‘Holtowed ‘their car at speeds! down out of the sky,’” Looney
above’ 25 ,m.p.h. The bo ed.

y
i stated that the object IE adios reportings of 0

. from the sky between 7:20.an ts-in-the-sky came from aj

zm. « Thursday. Residents | Federal Aviation Agency em-

, aroul . reporte ed!
seeing an object fail about (hore in , who said}

7:55 p.m.. Thursday followed |
| by an- explosion 3 to 5 tninutes.,
ater: that “rocked the whdle

| valley,”’ in the words of Irwin
ied: Beckmann, u facmer if, the!

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his vantage point in the. air-|
rt tower.

tourist reported seeing a!
meteor fall to earth about 5
‘miles southwest of R

Nes “area. id
off; George said in a telephone | ue S.D., in southwestern |

Dakota, leaving a trail '
of yellow-red sparks and fire.

ie  Ogallala Youths Say T hey. Wete
nidentified Obje

| bright
{saw that light last night, and fees of a Righway Pa},

Gane eee the

ney, the same thing Danny Upte-

®; declared. the object} reports of ‘sightings oe
grove. saw; a ball. coming Naine "from: the Scottsbluif}

se Seat b lee reported that an ob-

;conversation that Danny first |
iy ; sighted the object e. two
37, ihad then gone to see where it
‘had fallen, about '2 mile out
jof town:

“We were about a hlock
fromthe object. It
move: until we started to get:
out; and then it started to-|

Officials of the South Dako

State School of Mines are in
) Vestigauns. _

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ithe game esr a we.

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pjec

; ts one

he Nebraska: Hi shw ay
laugh at us when-.we teld trot one of the}:

tings near Kilgore might}

reported. sightiigs of
objects to the district

Nebraska . itighway Patrol}:

LSRSHOLIN areas.
akota St 2 te

ject appeared to Pat landed
% the arker
southwest o

servers reported they saw me-;
teors. Because of the fiery ap-'
pearance, fire lookouts in the |
southern Black Hills and the
Black Hills Army Depot at
igloo were alerted.

South. Dakota ar
| could not. report finding any

eteorite remains.

he Sioux Fails, ‘$.D,,
eather Bureau Said it was

The motorist said the tire- | believed the fire balls were

ing piece that started a prai- |
rie fire near Kilgore. The Kil-

didn’t}ball had thrown off a burn-' either meteors or pieces S

/ meteors.

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arca!

people asked us questions ! have been a falling plane, but}.
w fOathing was found.
but we saw i everal persons in.Gr
: Col

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.

Chevenne
it appeared quite bright from ' \1o¢t reports indicated the ob- }

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ward us. We left when it got; gore fire department investi-

Shelter Plan.

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et closer; after we got the car;gated and found: no fire
exer started: We had the throttle +: No reports of similar ob-; W ashington (UPI) : _ ‘The: -
Se By pulledall the way out, and pjects had been turned in to' Defense Department has or-|
ye  pit-wouldn’t run,” George said. ithe Air, Traffic.'and Control{dered the armed: services to}
rue. y “It was about a half or;Center of the Olathe, Kan.,+cooperate closely ~ with local!
ee @ three-fourths block jung, and; FAA station by Friday morn- ‘civil defense organizations to:
ithe ‘SNE about. a street’s width wide. | ing, the Lincoln Flight Serv-| provide fallout shelters at
“eA. And it was flat. just like ajice Station reported. ~ ‘military installations. .
es vet red oh light shining on the}———————
i yaa ‘ground, but there wasn’t any-
<i ad? day thing ‘above it. and there Be Sure. to Read<.
A yet wasn't any heizht to it. I saw
reve: just a plain white light, which ‘VITAL PROCESS—The fas.’
i peee was. dim: around the edges} gy i Diebeth
id Ae and flat on the ground. . cinating stereotype depart-—
e 20°™ We thought maybe it was’! ment conducts an operation:
x a meteorite until «t started’ “in the production of your =
ty whe 'to move toward tus. We were d aily newspaper without
th i 9 ations | retty scared, so 1 don’t re-| which there would he’ no eae
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they

lowed their car a

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block long and about a street's width |

IFO fail from the sky, and that the object fol-
t. speeds above. 25 mph. The sighting, plus an explosion ac~ )

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Strange Lights In $.D." Neb.
On Thareday, 18 jcihien, relate of | -
Rapid City, S. D., as well as an employee |
of the FAA in Cheyenne, Wyoming, re- |
ported a huge, bright meteor. In west- |
tern Nebraska several reports were made |
to authorities concerning a _ strange |
bright object in the sky. Highway Patrol |
officers at Scottsbluff reported a motor-
ist said what he thought was a fragment
of a meteor set a grass fire near Kilgore.
Fire trucks sent to investigate and ex-
tinguish the fire found/nothing, how

ever.

Two Ogallala, Nebraska high school
boys reported that same night that a
glowing object landed north of the town
in the hills. A search Thursday night
disclosed nothing, and a _ continuing
search Friday yielded the same. One 16-
year-old driving on the north edge of
Ogallala said he saw a round, green light
descending out of the northwest onto a
hill just north of the city. He told po-
lice he picked up a 17-year-old friend
and they drove about 700 yards into the
hills where they saw a white, glowing
object parked on the ground, and esti-
mated its size as 100 yards by 30 to 40
feet high. Search later yielded nothing
naturally. ; |

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WCLAS C I R V I § REPORT

I. CIRVIS REPORT2. Tx9w 3, SIGHTED BLUE
GREEN LIGHT OBJECT. 4, S7-12N, 173-120

Je 1987522 6, / 7, TRAVELING STRAIGHT DOwN TO
HORIZON. 8. HIGH 9. /

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