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5th Nov 194g At approximately 0435 A. 4./a woman phoned fhe PalladiumItem, Richmond Indiana to eck if they hed observed a light in the east which ahe stated resembled a flare hanging from a parectute. Mr. Dale Steven, a sports weiter, on the newspeper was in the office at the tine and advived that ne would check on it. Imuodiately after the woman bung up a man cc lled with a similur statement, Mr. Stevens them looked out the window and sow & brilliant white light a bit south of east. It seemed to flicker & gest desl and anpeared auch larg r than a ctor so he discounted the sossibility of it being n heavenly body. Lining it up with e corner of a cert:in building and observing it for a few mimtes he perceived no mve- ment. He then called the police but they knew notiing of it. He then went to the ayer roof and watciied it for some li! mimtes, Coming (ows he got a camara ond took a time exvosure of it. However, uncom bis return to the roof the object appesred dimmer due to an overenst. Witlin five more mimites the sky was overcast from low clouds estimated to be at about 1,000 feet, When the odject was first observed the nicht wos clear «ith tere out. Mr, Stevens thought the size of the object appeared about 5 to 10 tives thet of a normyl ster, He took two pictures of the “floating light! Mr, Stemane is considered to be « tructworthy pernon, Ais employer, Paul J. Ingels st ted that he will attest to obtain as many true focts as vor idle, 4e considers his honest and sincere. Mr. Stevens ie 2 member of the loc:l Junior Chamber of Commerce. Astromoner Check with Brofessor “vid Telfair/of Zarlhem College revealed that if wie the Professor's opinion that 1* couldn't hove dren 6 stor Qheck with MCIA‘Z="3 elicited the st..tement tnat the enoroxinute burning time of Us\F Paracimte Flares never exceeds 5 to § mimtes and that they are moctly designed for a”burring tice of only 3 mimtes. There ie, sowever, « Tow Type Acrial Fl. re thet consi ts of several three-mimute flores which ie towed as o chaine behind an airoraft (but never cropped by a verachute) end which are designed to burn one at a time to fncilitiate night tracking and gumpery prcticles. Suggested obtaining of TX 31961 to compare photogre:#.s of flare photographs with thetetaken by Mr. Stevens. describ an object In “Look” magazine doted 22 Nov 8 there wag an « ticle/wnich appe.red light of down on bow 6 At wae a bright waite ball with i. + Ecrley Wood, sn astromoner in jydney, flashed the word that one of the most spectacular comets yet to appesr in this century hed made its eppesramce in the sky over Australia, Three days later erly risers in the southern ani we tern purte of the U. S, were able to ob erve this body with the naked eye. The comet wis visible for a bricf & nimtes before it wis obscured by the mun's light. |