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hammer. During the continence of this fusillade, which lasted fully twenty minutes, the damage amounted to several thousand dollars and several persons were injured. Note, particularly, the size and shapes of the "hailstones.". This was obviously not a hailstorm. Winds strong enough to have torn mountain icesheets to bits and carried them across the country, would have lifted the train from its tracks. Note, too, the suddenness of the attack. Lest we fall into the trap of suspecting these reports merely because of their age, | shall depart from my desire to draw upon material reported before the present flying saucer phenomenon, and reproduce this letter in Fate Magazine, August, 1950. The Great Hail On Sunday, September 11, 1949, three acquaintances, Dr. Robert Botts, Dr. John Tipton, and Dr. T.J. Treadwell, went dove hunting on the Eugene Tipton Ranch in northwest Stephens County, Texas. Dr. Botts told me about it, and said that it was a fairly clear, hot afternoon on the ranch when the skies let loose with about forty pounds of ice, all in one chunk. Dr. Tipton and Dr. Treadwell substantiate what Dr. Botts says that he saw. Dr. Botts was sitting by an earthen tank, waiting for birds. He said that he "heard a whistling sound, and when | looked up, | saw a glistening, whirling object falling. It landed fifteen feet from me and shattered into hundreds of pieces." He added that the ice knocked a hole several inches deep in the ground. He mmediately called his companions, and, when they arrived, all three saw that the ice was milky white, and when they tasted it they found that it had a soapy flavor. Botts said there were a few thunderheads in the sky, but none overhead. He declared that no airplanes had passed overhead. The ice fell about 4:30 P.M., and had not completely melted when Dr. Botts and his friends left, about two hours later. Treadwell, said that he did not hear the sound of the ice falling, but he arrived on the scene immediately after and saw the chunk where he was sure there had been no ice when he walked by the tank earlier. Tipton, whose uncle owns the ranch, said that the ice did not look like the truck-delivered variety, but did have something of the appearance of hail, except for the dimensions. All three declared that the pieces were not dry ice, and both Drs. Tipton and Treadwell agreed that there had been no airplanes heard overhead, before or after the ice fell. After hearing this story, | turned to my Bible, Revelations 16:21 -- "And there fell upon men a great hail out of Heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent." According to a dictionary definition, a talent is fifty-eight pounds. Lewis W. Mathews, Fort Worth, Texas Now... how do we interpret these strange falls of ice? What, after careful consideration, do they mean to us? 51 A more definite case of meteoric ice could scarcely be imagined. Can you explain this mystery?