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or WHATZIT Well, ft Sure Was : Some Ball of Fire. Tt. has been pretty, ivall established today that the “mass of flaming, incandescent material” which flashed across the sky over Washington and five eastern states last night was a meteor, a flying saucer “as big as a washtub,” or a mass of flaming, in- candescent material. AI ALg The Naval Observatory, the Weather Bureau and observers at National Alrport lean toward the ‘meteor theory. = Scores of Washingtonians, who saw it, leaned in all directions. Police remained stolidly upright, and the FBI had no comment, ; aa IT LOOKED Bu £ citizens here, in Maryland, Vir irginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl- vania and Ohio couldn't be silenced. They. said: } © “Suddenly this thing came | swooping down from the eastern . It looked like it was right yove the housetops. It was a ball of bright greenish fire with a long tail.” (This was a housewife), _@ “I thought it was a_ flying “saucer. I thought it was a flare at first—that is, I thought it was a flare until the darned thing swooped ‘down—and then up again. It seemed ‘to follow the contours of the road,” Ke Army veteran), . : _@ “It looked at first look like a eae on fire. it was that big. It was sun-colored with a tail.’ (Sub- urbanite.) © Shaped like a star “about as big as the inside of a tennis racket.” (12-year-old boy.) SHOCKING Four Frederick farmers saw “a ball shooting across the horizon.” Near Washington, three United tis correspondents said it was like is: © “A rocket with a fiery tail . It shocked us, it looked so close, , va Eleazer.) © “A big magnesium flare... It gave off sparks.” (Robert Loftus.) © It plunged out of the sky “very fast,” like a plane shot down in the war. It was trailing a tail of flame.”—(John A. Goldsmith.) George Lincoln, of 756 S. Green- brier-st, Arlington, saw something “about as big as a washtub. I was: sure it was going to crash, some place,” he said. A Maryland state trooper, sitting out his lonely wien atop Negro Mountain in far Western | Maryland, said “it” passed over him, too, iy 2 Laughlin Mohr Winterrowd —__ Tele. Rm. Holloman Gandy pS Vg Wet wo Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star ; N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass © Date)" pee