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witnesses viewed reddish objects throughout the evening; Chicago, IIli- nois, Tribune (January 10, 1969). Saturday, January 11: Phoenix, Arizona; 10 P.M.; Phoenix, Arizona, Republic (January 13, 1969). Monday, January 13: Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan; various wit- nesses saw object bearing red and green lights from 10:45 P.M. to 1:30 A.M.,; Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Evening News (January 14, 1969). Thursday, January 16: Coos Bay, Oregon; 6:45 P.M.; Coos Bay, Oregon, World (January 18, 1969). Portland, Oregon; 7 P.M.; green object traveling from northwest to southeast; Portland, Oregon, The Oregonian (January 18, 1969). Friday, January 17: Jerseyville, Illinois; 12 noon; daylight sighting of circular object; Jersey County Democrat-News (January 23, 1969). Saturday, January 18: Charleston, South Carolina; 7:15 P.M.; Char- leston, South Carolina, Evening Post (January 20, 1969). Monday, January 20: Columbia, Mississippi; 8-8:30 P.M.; Colum- bia, Mississippi, Columbian Progress (January 23, 1969). On the evening of Thursday, February 6, a nauseating, unexplained fog crept over the south side of Houston, Texas. Forty-eight hours later a blinding blue-white fireball thundered across Arizona on a northwest- southeast course and traveled at least 1,000 miles before apparently descending ‘“‘in the almost impassable terrain of the Sierra Madre.” A Chihuahua, Mexico, newspaper editor, Guillermo Asunsolo, said, ‘The light was so brilliant we could see an ant walking on the floor. It was so bright we had to hide our eyes.” At 1:09 A.M. that morning the good citizens of the little town of Pueblito de Allende were awakened by a blinding flash and a tremendous explosion. A shower of fragments sprayed over a 10-square-mile area, one 40-pound piece just missing the local post office building. Scientists from the Smithsonian Institution scurried to Mexico to recover the fragments, which they identified as ‘Type 3 carbonaceous chrondites.” Translation: metal fragments containing carbon, which is suggestive of organic (living) matter. Charles Fort examined many of the meteor reports of the nineteenth century and noted that it seemed odd that these things had a habit of appearing repeatedly in the same areas. He also questioned the validity of the theory that these falling rocks and assorted debris were from outer space. Our astronauts have seen very few things in space that could be classified as rocks or meteors. Early fears that such debris might constitute Charting the Enigma / 147