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SUBJECT: MO. INCIDENTS, 3/90 FILE: UFO2174
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PART 5
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Space Visitor
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Bright Flash In Sky Probably Was Meteorite, Officials Say
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The spectacular bright lights in the sky that puzzeled observers in
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several states Saturday (March 17,1990) evening probably were caused by a
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meterorite, experts said Sunday.
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That was the conclusion of officals as the St. Louis Science Center.
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Authorities at the NAtional Weather Service and at the North American Defense
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Command (NORAD), which tracks objects in space from Paterson Air Force in
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Colorado Springs, Colo., agreed.
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Many St. Louis residents saw the lights and a brilliant flash in the
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southern sky shortly after 9:30 PM Saturday. The strange lights were seen
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also in Southern Illinois, Iowa, and Arkansas.
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Maj. Dick Adams, a NORAD spokesman said Sunday that "We are quite con-
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fident" the lights were not caused by bits of a satellite or other man-made
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debris, falling through the atmosphere. Adams said NORAD did not know what
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caused the lights. But he said the meteorite theory was a popular on there.
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The newest US spy satellite, which was launched Feb. 28 (1990) aboard
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the space shuttle Atlantis from Cape Canaveral, Fla., is disintegrating in
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space. Fragments were not expected to start falling into the atmosphere until
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today, officals said.
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Butch Dye, at the Weather Service, said Sunday that officals there had no
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idea what caused the lights. "All we know it was not weather related," he said.
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Laura Kyro, a producer for the Star Theater at the Science Center, said
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that if weather and disintegrating man-made objects were eliminated as the
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cause, "all we can assume is that it was a meteorite."
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