Paper: Valley Morning Star City: Harlingen, Texas Date: Saturday, November 27, 1943 Page: 2 (of 8)
Meteor Path Being Sought
CLINTON, Okla. - (U.P.) - Residents of Western Oklahoma were still talking Friday night of a huge meteor which they reported traced a colorful path in the sky Thursday night and made the ground tremble over a wide area when it hit the earth with a tremendous explosion.
Spot Not Located
Exact spot where the meteor hit was not yet determined but it was believed to be on a 600-acre farm near Leedley. Charles Spencer, news editor of the Clinton Daily News, said the explosion "shook the teeth of everybody in town."
A detachment of the highway patrol spent most of the day searching for the meteor without any success. However, reports from Leedley indicated that the shock of the concussion was greater there than at Elk City, Clinton or Hammon.
The flashing meteor was witnessed as far east in Oklahoma as Asher, near Ada, and as far south as Pauls Valley and Lawton.
Scouts Saw Streak
Boy Scouts encamped at Clinton reported seeing a "streak of fire" blazing earthward to the southwest shortly after 7 p.m., according to Spencer.
(Carl Easterwood, oil field worker employed on a drilling rig near Asher, told the highway patrol in Oklahoma City that he had seen the same "streak of fire."
("It left a long tail of sparks that were red, then turned green and white before disappearing," he said.)
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This article refers to the Leedy meteorite fall. Misspelled, Leedly by the writer.
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