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“4 ’ r Ld * ; March 1 | PILE REF: = SIGGE-u-1 egieon: From: ; Norman G. Markham ; MAIN HOTEL, Pueblo, Colo To: y Chief Signal Officer Subject: - Norcatur, Kans., sky explosion : “4 of 16 February, 19,6 Purpose: To show a speculation regard-~ ing the above phenomenon and another one of earlier date and to call attention to occurrences between the two which have an appearance of relationship whether coinci- dental or not. The geographical position of the Noreatur explosion suggests possible linkage with other occurrences happening inside latitudinal limits arbitrarily demarkable between 43° 36' North (which is the latitude of Boise, Idaho) and 36° 10' North (the latitule of Nashville, Tenn.), a belt about 185 miles wide, This suggestion is gained from positions given for occurrences happening between Yume 2), 1917 and February 18, 1948, as siiall be hereinafter briefly described. THE BOISE (Idaho) OBJECT—-This was seen either beginning or ending at 330 pm 2 June 197 and was visible for 20 minutes. It was in the western sky, was of comet-like appearance, and settled gradually toward the horizon as planetary bodies set. It was seen by Lt. Gov. Whitehead and Chief Justice Lampert. Its nature was unknom. The peculiarity which connects this pesemige for speculative purposes, with the explosion of some unknown object over Noreatur, Kans., on 18 February 1948 is the seeming of a relationship between the positions of the moon for the two phenomena: In the former case the moon was at the date of phenomenon, about 7%, & before the positionof First Quarter; on the second case it was about $4.73 beyond the position of first quarter. Since the Boise object was visible for 20 minutes before it sank this argues it was about ten degrees above the horizon when first seen. Now if a line be draw westward and at ten degrees zenithward from the