UPOI IMDIX CARD AI 2. LOCATION Tbenaopoll, v,o. 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Was Balloon / ~ 0 Probably Balloon Po i Wy Balloon 10/llloZ Oot. '7 XIJ G,.un41-Yiau.e D GreuntiRoder g ~=b:~:rti~croh a A; .. ya.,.t a Alr-lnterc.,t RNar a PoaaiWy Aircraft D Yea . 0 Probably Astronomical z. ClYlllaD a Possibly Astronomical l--lf-LI_NO_TM_O_fi=-:,O:.:II:..I_R_V_A_T_IO-N---- W . .J.. .--.. ft....- a lnaufflclent Dote for Evaluation 15' VUUII w. 8\ralpt. a Unknown IRIIfl RY OP SIGHTING IDe white objeot. the else ot a : quarter a\ ar. len.U.. Object tlew tnl1ht tl'GII 100 de ee to 2,0 de1re lA t Mcond. 11. COMMINTS Ooncnar wlth Rlportlnl ottloer that tbl l1htla, wa caued b7 a teor. . M 'tWZnt. - DAYTON, OR I Pilot Sees r After ,Near. CollisiOti ' , DENVER, Oct. 10-A brllllant ball of fire described as large as a house, blazed across westetn akiea in the pre-dawn darlmeu today. tt whizzed so close to a Navy plane carrytn~ 39 persons . that th~ pilot had to make a sharp tum to avoid a collision. ' SciPntlsts said ~Y are sure the flaming object was a meteorite and h11d no connection with the Russian aatellite launched last week. The N~vy trRn~port plane pilot, Lt. Cmdr. W. F. Norris, said alter object came driving out of the sHina th fheh11l1. he circled noArthnd. Id th obj f1 bed . . erson sa e ect as over it,.,.. .saw lt crash m nllled by the left side of the transport country ~r the Colorado-Utah plane and appeared to have border. No; 1 !t said he bad to burned out about 1,000 feet be- bank 1harply to avoid the fireball. low. The plane was flying at 17,- H~adquarter or the North 000 fee~ at the ti!"e and "":as . three mJnutes past 1ts checkpotnt A~rican AJr Defense Command at Myton, Ut.ah. at Color,.M Sprinp said fly!rs An Air Force bomber pilot. Lt . will searrh th-. Area east of My-George Wortell or Cleveland, said ton, in ~wntral Utah. he thou1ht for a time It waa on Airplane pt!ub and night toners a collision course with his plane, aU. the w"y from Not th Dakota~ to and: Utah told at seeing the tlamlng " . When tt psased Instead of sky wanderer 111uminatin1 the hitting us, excitement turned to heaven~. . awe. '!be cockpit wu Ut up like Capt. I! A. Andenon, who wu dayllgbt it was a bia ball of in the plane' cockpit when ~ bluewhite ftre only five or 10 .fireball tine was aeen, 1aid the mi1el away :