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Be mate eee SoH aE ay ee et aR te ne eae A SP la a ec a a AR ty ORE ARO A tovinan neon, soma ~ @ | LOGAN, UTAH JOLTED BY VIOLENT EXPLOSION AND GAPING CRATER o ® FOLLOWING MYSTERIOUS "STREAK OF LIGHT IN SKY: First guess -~ meteorite, but as the evidence was assembled by by foremost authorities, the theory dissipated. Here's the story, thanks to the help of Mrs. John Germ ~ of Wooedscross, Utah who probed the Salt t Lake ribune files for the early f: «- before SILENCE! . i * * (‘On May 7, 1654 the Tribune reported: "A ‘conventional meteorite fall’ did x produce the crater found west of here Sunday, and probing operations at the scene have been discontinued, geologists said. In a 73-word statement, 3 ge! entists gave reasons why they ended their investigation, but it contained no opinion on who or what made the hole, or how it was made. “The statement, signed by J.Stewart Williams, professar of geology, Utah $ Agricultural College, Luinceln La Paz, director, Institute of Meteoritics, Un versity of New Mexico and Clyde T.Hardy, USAC geslogy professor read: -~ Ye the region extending from Clarkston south to Paradise, exhaustive inter """" gation of numerous persons who saw or heard the explosive phenomenon at midnight on May | has been carried out. The testimony thus obtained and ma evidence recovered as a result of subsurface investigations at the site of th explosion west of Logan have disclosed that the crater was not produced by tonventional meteorite fail. For these reasons, operations have tbean dis discontin And fram the Tribune, May 5: "Dr. Lincoln. La Paz spent his first full day here, working with Dr. J.Stewart Williams and Dr. Clyde T.Hardy. On hb arrival here Monday night, Dr. La Paz said the hole must have been made bi a ‘whopper’ if it contains a meteorite. They decided to place a frame arour the crater and cover it with wire mesh. Workers will stand on movable pla and probe with a pipe. In thie way they wilh know they “have probed every pl ” possible under the mesh. " (My recommendation is that we excavate until we find what made the hole, said Dr. La Paz, whe is credited with recovering the world's largest aerali weighing more than on¢ ton." The incident occurred on May I bringing "506 phone calls" to the Logan Git Police Dept. Residents reported their houses ‘shaken’ and TV viewers sai their reception was disturbed. A check made later with Hill Air Force Bas and Salt Lake City indicated no planes in the area for several hours. A was veteran described the 16 it. wide and 6 ft. deep hole as looking Hke a "bomb crater." Sod was found scattered in all directions fox more than 100 yards. On Aug. 31,'S4, [wrote Dr. Clyde T. Hardy, geologist who worked on the pr: " ject, asking if any substantial evidence as to its (the explosion's) source ha: been uncovered. Following is Dr. Hardy's reply of Sept. 11, 1654: "Reference is made te your letter of Aug. 3i re. the explosion and crater w: ef Logan. Although a fireball was reported by several people previous to tt - ground explosion, Iam personally convinced that they were confused. One pecially competent observer deacribes a ground flash only and he was’: faver situated to ace all aapects of the occurrence, © a (Signed) Clyde T. Hardy Asaoc. Prof., Dept. Geology (Ref. File: Case 20}