Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line of flight was probably 40 or 50 miles distant. At any rate it was so close I could see fiery fragments of the meteor whirling away from it and dropping back into the tail...
...Before it struck or disintegrated the meteor had lost altitude and I was looking down on its long, horizontal flight...
...Besides the pieces which appeared to explode into the tail, others exploded from the main mass and dropped to the ground. So it was impossible to tell whether the meteor gradually disintegrated or struck the ground...
...Stratford, Tex., Farmer Ed Hart found a 4-lb. metallic mass which seemed a fragment of the meteor. The material was cold and not embedded in the soil. But green wheat and grass around the lump were scorched...
Thundering out of the night, the plane brushed a rhubarb patch, caromed off a tree and a shed, crashed through the wall of Joseph Arisa's frame house. It burst like a flaming meteor into the Arisas' parlor. A moment before, the Arisas, their four children, their roomer, his brother and two guests had been playing cards. Joseph Arisa, his clothing ablaze, leaped through a window. The others scarcely had time to shriek before they were incinerated. With them died the plane's three occupants. (Joseph Arisa soon died in a hospital...