Paper: Atchison Daily Globe City: Atchison, Kansas Date: Wednesday, November 07, 1951
Meteorite Causes Stir Among A-Bomb Conscious Sooners Oklahoma City, Nov. 7 - AP - A meteorite which sounded like "someone running across the porch" startled Oklahoma residents this morning before it apparently disintegrated. Atomic conseious citizens at first feared an A-bomb explosion and flooded the Oklahoma's highway patrol, local telephone switchboards and newsapers, with calls. Reports from Oklahoma City, Enid, Ada, Clinton and even Wichita, Falls, Tex., told of the ball of fire that flashed through the heavens at about 7:20 a.m. There were reports of window's being rattled and porches shaken. Lloyd Peek, a greyhound bus driver, said he saw the meteorite as he entered a Rock Island railroad underpass east of Weatherford in southwest Oklahoma. The meteorite, he said, was traveling, northwest to southeast and there was a terrific explosion and blinding flash. U. H. Warner of the Geary, Okla., Star, said that many persons compared the noise to "that of a mountain blowing up like you see in the movies." He said the vibration sounded as if someone was knocking on the door or "running over the front porch. Charles Stuart, Oklahoma City highway patrol radio operator, said he saw the meteorite disintegrate. Enid residents reported "a ball of fire that flashed blue, purple, red and silver." The "flaming ball of fire" was seen in at least four states. It was seen at Tucomeari, N.M., Liberal, Kas., and Texas. At Wave, Tex., Dr. Walter J. Williams, astronomer at Baylor university, said the meteor apparently was one of the Leonides. The Leonides, he explained, are an annual shower of meteors which usually fall to the earth about Nov. 19 and that today's visitor was probably an early arrival.
Mark note: Meteorites A to Z, does not show any meteorite having fallen and being recovered on or around Nov. 7, 1951 anywhere in the midwest. It does however show an increased amount of meteorite falls (and recoveries) around this time. Oct. 2 (18:13 hrs) Aarhus, H6, Denmark Oct. 17 (16:30 hrs) Elenovka, L5, Ukraine Oct. 20 (1530 hrs) Manych, LL3-4, Russia Oct. 20 (2100 hrs) Yambo, H5, Congo Oct 31 (1730 hrs) Kalaba, H4, Congo
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