. Paper: Indiana Evening Gazette City: Indiana, Pennsylvania Date: February 19, 1948 Page: 6
"Ball of Fire" In Sky Seen By Obervers In Six States
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 19. (AP) - Observers today sought further explanation of a strange "ball of fire" possibly a disintegrating meteor, seen in six states.
The brilliant explosion thousands of feet in the air was observed in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado yesterday.
Oscar Monnig, secretary of the National Meteorological Society, said at Fort Worth, Tex., he felt sure the fire ball was a meteor disintegrating.
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Mark note: This article is referring to the Norton County meteorite. More Norton Couty meteorite articles on are my website. PDF copies are available of the newspapers posted today upon request.
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