HIIADQUAirr.M THIRD ARMY UNCI. AS$.lflEt' IUBJMJ! 1 VDOorrientional Airoratt Ooaaanding General Air llateriel ConnancS lright-Patteraon Air Force Baae Dayton, Ohio Attctioru 1..'01 (Control No. A-191?) Aaril 1950 lDOloaecS herem. th ia per clipping f'romo the COLUliBIA RBCCRD, Columbia, South Carolina, 25 April 1950, re. meteor seen in Carolina cities. lOR 'l'BB OOlD!ANDING GENJIUL 1 Olippin' dt4 25 Apr 50 Colonel, GSO NJ ot S, G-2 "TJ&A COLT~ ~!?I \ h~lt I~" r 0\"!B ro pur ~outh C.: r nl1no 25 Arril 1~sn .Meteor Seen ln. C1rolina Cities . Oblerwn In three South Carollr ettl reporttcl BHlna a hup flar lq ob~tct ahootlna acro11 tl .Manu lut nlaht. Realdentl QneaYlUe, Columbia and Qllarle tea all nported IHlna the objec rllet.l7 a meteor, about I p, r (J:I'I'), Tbe altitude of the ball an wu n~rted at YU'loua. taom aoo to 4.000 '"t. lin. ~ Xnlaht of Charlestc It wu -...., brlaht and veJ larp. and had sparks tralllna for at leut 1S fHt. It wu abo\ bla u a l~uart bueket." Jeff B, Bnld, also of Charlesto aid the obJeet appeared to t about 11 lnehs In diameter an the tall looked u lf rtcl hot eoa wen falllna off of lt. The who thtna dlecl. out In the dlstanc:e." Columbia residents eatlmated II of the fin ball from flve eo fHt acrosa and aald It wu tra ellna eaatward. At Greenvllle, tl wu dnerlbtcl as red. bl or oraaae, with a tall In baek, fro or on both endl. I,U. Weather 8qatdl lbaw~ Poroe Bue 1. lD with l.tter, Depart.tnt of the Air Poroe, ubject u dated 6 1948, the intonation i t.o aD objeot. to be a Pl,iJw D!aca that wu n in .... on tbe id lht. of 24 AprU 19,0. a. Location and tiM ot i&htinat SeeD ewer Smater, South Carolina nbvbe about 7150 P .II. on the 24th of April. '- Weather at the tiMt Weath.r -. cle1r. Weather Detaohllellt Weather Obaerver. S.ter, South Carolira. d. photopaaplw a'llbl lketob ot object' oontipratlonl t. Object ilhte4t It e-d to be a larse b'l of tire w!.th a trea ot Pirku tol.lA:nd.na the object or wlaatn.r it (2). Shape a Sort ot OJ'l.indG' haped at front then taper1Dg SiMI About tiftT (50) tt in leqth l d poeaiblJ' t1 Ye ( S) ('1). on.na on a tra!Pt 11DI (1). Al.tl\adel (9). loandl (10). achaut t.r.U or a !be oD17 traU ot eperb. lo ooul d be a loas tr111 I a..-..1 r-.rbl I wu utonlehed when it tint apperecl 111 '' s-.tn 11bat it ooalcl bate been. It waa like &nJtb1Dg I It doaen t -tbat it ooul4 ban been a p.l. u ao eoand oould be beard ad DO object be en other then tbe fire and .pera.