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SUBJECT: MO. INCIDENTS, 3/90 FILE: UFO2171
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PART 2
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Ken Geest #1 @3466
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Sun Mar 18 09:58:56 1990
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White Flash Over St. Louis Likely Meteor
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A "spectacular" white flash in the Southern sky --that some experts said
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could be a burning satellite or more likely a meteor--was seen by many St.
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Louis area residents shortly after 9:30 PM Saturday MArch 17,1990.
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Police and the National Weather Service at Lambert Field reported many
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calls of the sighting, which has been reported as far away as California.
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Officals in Randolph County, Ill. and at Scott Air Force Base near Belleville
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said they also had gotten several calls.
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"It appeared first as a glowing orange ball for maybe a third of a
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second, due south and moving rapidly across the sky. Then there was a
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spectacular bright flash," said Stan Waxelman of Maplewood, Mo. who saw the
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object as he was unloading groceries form his car.
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Byron Clemens of Richmond Heights, Mo. was in Ladue, Mo. when he saw the
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fireworks-like phenomenon about the same time in the southern sky. "It was
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incredibly bright -- as if someone was pointing a flashlight at you. I've
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seen a lot of meteorites never anything like this," Clemens said.
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John Feldt, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the
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object may have been debris from a satellite burning up as it re-entered the
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atmosphere. Two such incidents occurred in 1988 and were seen throughout the
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United States. However, Feldt thought it more likely that it was a meteor.
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Based on the accounts of people who had called the weather service, the
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object appeared to be moving faster than a falling satellite, he said. Some
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people told Feldt that they heard a sonic boom and felt the ground shake, he
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said. "This was definitely something real," he said, "What it was, I can't tell
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you."
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A spokesman for the North American Defense Command, which tracks objects
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in space from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Sprintgs, Colo., said the
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lights didn't result from bits of a satellite or other man made debris falling
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through the atmosphere.
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"We are quite confident it is not caused by the re-entry of a man made
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objects," said Maj. Dick Adams, NORAD spokesman.
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