SOOR<:t USAP Pilots lc ~.oba~:!~!--.--- DAT~ .. Ill TO A'1'1C Tntr~ ClF f;(.-:ll'l'Irro .. 2_2 "'-~IIS t --- COLOH Brilliant white to orange-red ---" --iillgfitly faster-ilihii"f:[r:!~.l:r :, .-- - - LF.UOTH OF 'l'Ir.P.. OUSJ:!lVlm lo-30 aec HOtuiO ~1ANlo:tM:ns Change _!I in E!ed _ _ .. _ R&tARKSa ObJect looked like landing light mo:rcur.s_- which ellitted a string or bright sparks harnec1 out" 'l':llit 1\.rary ATIC Form 329 . AF FORM fl! -PART I Uft~Uii'- AIR INTELLIGF.tJ(E INFORMATION la,e11l,.once Dl~lcn, lqe., RA!I Aa4rewa Ar Ia WAahl~oa ~5, D. c UIAr Offloan AT/A"'. ~ 1. !ha 0o8Nftad1~ Oft1oer, Lovr, fll~ht Sar.loa Centftr, Lovrr A1 ~Awe, D~aer, C~1ora4o, repor\t the t1~\lftl ot ual4entlf1e4 flyl~ obJe~t in the v1c1nit1 of A~ron and ~ea.er, Colorn4o, on the Dl~ht of 30 Sept .. ber 1950 nt npnro~ln~tely 2~45 MST. CleAr e~lot, vlth tif,eea ~llet 1t1b111t1, WAI r~nrte4 at the ~re.~1l1n~ wenther a' A~on "' the a~roxl~te \1 .. of the ti~htlnc. Clenr t~let and !lf\7 11 Yltlblllt7 ~reYalle4 nt Dener. a. lnclote4 it A et.De4 1\at .. ent, coaoemln... ~he .t~hUnp:, !lftde b7 USAP I officer eceapantt of a 1-25 tTP Aircraft Aloft at the ti~e of the s1~ht1~. There 1~ forwar4e4 al.a an Mnotnted. clravl~ clepic\1~ the posit\on or the oburvert' n1rcrfttt la relation to the unidentified flTi~ o\Jec\ at the tiMe of the t1~ht1n~. A~nnrftnt oonfl \ion of the tl~ht1~ it furnithecl b7 the 1acloted r~ortt of~rtten ~eraont ~ alto ha1n~ obserYe4 fly1~ obJectt. VllJ.lAM L. 'l'aAVI S ~' C~lonel, USAI Chief, lntelllenoe 1. StAteent b7 USAJ of!ioer occapaa' of 1-1& . ; a. Anno\Ate4 clrawlft. t I. Report .. peraona OblerYiftS fly~ obJectl The Amerlean Meteorltiel Society, whose meml>ers specialize hr the atucly of meteors and metrites, fnr yean have collected re- of IUdl pher.omena. From a large enough number of good dncrlptlonl of a given meteor, astronomen ca" analyze the data mathe~natleaUy and detea mine the meteor's radiant-the point In the heawns from which it seems to rome. Tlie meteor i~ then idcntl 8ed by Itt ndiant and given an A~IS number. 11\C data were pub lilhld Ia ltlfttoorltla, the journal of the soc:icty, and thus made- anllable for future re1ean:h. September ao, the same year, was a big day for meteors. At 1:35 A.M. a giant Rrcball ( A~IS A:J26) roared over southeastern DIJnoll from north to south, leaving a luminous train visible In 8ve ltates and illuminating the sky and countryside from St. Louis to Loutsvdle and from ~lcmphis to Knoxville. The Rnal det'onntlon, OYel western Kentuclcy, was heard over an area 1000 mill's square and shook buildings from Paducah to ~flmphis. Fragment~ show ed farms over a twcnty-Rvc mile area, struck five huildin . and penetrated one roof. About Rfty pounds of m('tcoritcs clmp(ll'<l in Murray, Cnllow.ay County, Kcnhtcl.y, and nrc now in the Smith- Institution in \Vnshin~ton. That sam(' ni~ht nhout 10 :o45 1.~r., &rcballs were re ported by plane crews fl)ing over a six-stat e nrc::.- Jdaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizon::., and New Mexico [9, p. 115). Similar Rrcbnlls that vanishet.without trace verc reported