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Fiery Soviet Space Debris Lights Up Night Sky
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On Friday night, March 25th, the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle,
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Washington received three phone calls from Beaumont, Texas and parts
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of Louisiana reporting a fiery aerial display that turned out to be a
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Soviet satellite re-entry. The following report was printed in the
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer March 26th:
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"Soviet space debris bigger than a railroad boxcar re-entered the
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atmosphere in a brilliant atmospheric fireworks display last night
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that triggered phone calls from curious skywatchers in Texas,
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Oklahoma, and Arkansas."
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"'I saw a meteorite once that was pretty spectacular, but this one
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jsut blew that away. This was the most amazing celestial event I've
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ever seen,' said Chuck Farr, 33, of Round Rock, Texas."
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"'It was part of a package that was sent up a couple of days ago
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from the Soviet Union,' said Lt. Col. Ivan Pinnell, a spokesman for
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the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD."
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An interesting sidelight to this story emerged when Robert Gribble
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of the UFO Reporting Center called NORAD to confirm the satellite re-
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entry. After the Major on the Public Information Desk learned who he
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was and what organization he represents, he asked, "How come you guys
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aren't over at the conference in Arkansas?"
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Bob told him that he was too busy to go. "Yeah, we're too busy,
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too," he replied with a laugh.
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File: REENTY.SAT 1536-T
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06-APR-88
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Dir: 5 Sec: 1 - UFOlogy
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From: Donald Johnson
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Acc: 6
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Soviet Satellite Debris 3/25/88
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