Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting for a wind velocity not to exceed 40 m.p.h. They fell impatiently to tinkering with their ships and equipment, already at taut perfection. They had been at Purnea nine days, but precious time was slipping away. Soon the southwest monsoon would set in, drenching and beclouding earth and sky for months...
...sky of the southwestern U. S. grew suddenly, hellishly luminescent, just before dawn one day last week. A meteor had passed with the howling roar and ripping draft of a monster express train. The pilots of two mail planes were aloft close enough to the phenomenon to bring precious new information down to scientists...
Frank Williams, flying the Transcontinental & Western Air route 50 mi. west of Albuquerque. N. Mex., saw the whole sky suddenly illuminated "as if someone had turned on a great blue electric light." A core of blue brilliance seemed to rush toward him from a high altitude about 300 mi. away. The brilliance lasted eight or ten seconds, then broke into two clouds- one brilliant blue, the other yellow and flame-colored. The clouds soon seemed to merge. The luminescence faded after a half-hour. Groundlings at Albuquerque noted the gaseous glow for half an hour. Colorado Springs...
...gave the appearance of a large floodlight being turned on in the sky. In a second or so it grew too bright for me. We were at about the same altitude. In a moment I caught sight of its tail and could tell that it was going north...
...appeared to be about the size of our Wichita hangar [102 ft. by 270 ft.] and shaped like a ball. It left a deep red trail with a bluish tint, which hung in the sky until obliterated by daylight...