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Falling sky, UFO: Just an experimentMONTGOMERY. Alail’Pli — It all began when something white as wide as a city street, floated down into a residential section of Montgomery duruiR the cold, dark hours Friday morning, ripping down telephone and power lines Panic ensued The folksover there thought the sky was falling said Lt C KHenderson at the Montgomery police department where phone lines were jammed A couple of them mentioned it was a UFO. or something like that. Henderson said A coupleI *• tof them called m and said it looked like an iceberg in the street Another guyjust called in and said a bunch of white stuff wascoming downThen, as dawn broke, a man driving to work near Tuskegee, 33 miles to the East, called police to report a strange metallic object in a field It wastieepmg. he said Police in Tuskegee drove out to take a look They reported the stiver object had the arresting word ‘ bomb w ritten on its side They backed oft and called Fort Bennmg. Ga for the bomb Mjuad.As it turned out, therew as no mention ot the wordbomb on the object, and it was part of the white stuff that felt on Montgomery It was a weather experiment and the balloon that carried it aloftThe white plasticresearch balloon was launched Thursday by the National Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Tex , for the University of California at San Diego The silver object was a harmless apparatus designed to detect x-rays in the universe Ralph Harju of the balloon facility in Texas said the payload weighed2,200 pounds and was earned to a height of about 128.000 feet by the balloon There is a radioactive source on the experiment, but it is a very small source ” Harju saidRarotkinFURNITURE COFEBRUARY
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Sat, Jan 28, 1978
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