Mobile, Ala., June 1950

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1450-51(?) Ball of Fire Seen In Southern Skies Object,Visible 500 Miles, Quickly Burns Out NEW ORLEANS, June 23 (UP). -A great ball of fre visible for 500 miles burned for g few seconds high in the southern sky tonight and then glimmered out,leaving &curving trail of glowing vapor. R. M. Kiser, senior air tramc controller of the Civil Aeronautics Administration here,said the gleaming object was seen from Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Houston, Tex., and a plane 250 miles southward over the Gulf of Mexico. In Jackson,Miss.,City Fireman Bert Kyzar said:It looked like a grapefruit and was spouting fire like a roman candle and was fol- lowed by a white vapor trail. It made a loop and then a white light came on." A.E.Amie.United States. weather forecaster here, said he saw an object oftremendous brilliance"in the western sky at 7:40 p.m.C. S.T. "It was more brilliant than any meteor I have ever seen,"Mr.