Word: rumane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first to see Cosmos 954's actual re-entry was Marie Ruman, night janitor in an office building in Yellowknife (pop. 10,000), a gold-mining town on Great Slave Lake, some 1,000 miles north of the Montana border. She saw what "looked like a jet on fire. There were dozens of little pieces following the main body, all burning and each with its little tail of fire just like the big piece." At a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Hay River, 125 miles south of Yellowknife, Corporal Phil Pitts saw a "bright white and incandescent" glowing...