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Sth Nov 194s At approximately 0435 A. 1./a woman phoned fhe Palladiumltem, Richmond to eck if they hed observed a Light in the east which she stated resembled a flare hanging from a pareemte. Kr. Dale Steven, a sports weiter, on the newspeper was in the office at the time and advised that he would cheek on it. Imoodiately after the women hung up a mam cclled with o similar statement, Mr. Stevens them looked out the window and sow a brillient white light a bit couth of east. It seemed to flicker & gest deol and anpeared mch larg r than a ctor so he discounted the ~oasibility of it being » he.wenly body, Lining it up with a corner of a cert:in building and observing it for a few mimtes he perceived no move- went. He then oalled the police but they knew notiing of it. He then went to the uoyper roof and watcied it for some li mimtes, Coming cows he got a camara ond took a time ex.osure of it, However, unom his return to the roof the object appesred dimmer due to an overenst. Wituin five more mimites the sky was overcast from low clouds ‘estimated to be at about 1,000 feet, When the odject was first observed the nicht was clear with ters out. Mr, Stevens thought the size of the object appeared about 5 to 10 tires thet of a normal ster, He took two picturcn of the “floating light! Mr, Stemans is considered to be « “trustworthy person, His employer, Paul J. Ingels st ted that he will attempt to obtain as many true focte 0 idle, He considers his honest and sinceve. Mr. Stevens ie = member of the loc:l Junior Chamber of Commerce. Astromoner Check with Brofessor ‘vid Telfair/of Zarlhem College revealed that if wee the Professor's opinion that it couldn't bove deen a stor Qheck with MCIAZ=°3 elieited the st.tement that the snoroxinate burning time of Us\F Paraciute Flares never exceeds 5 to § minutes and that they are noctly designes for a”burning tire of only 3 mimtes, There ie, .owever, « Tow Type Acrial Fl. re that consi ts of severe] three-minute flores which is towed os o chaine behind en airoraft (but never cropped by a perachute) end which ere designed to burn one at a time to frcilitiate night tracking and gumery practictes. Suggested obtaining of TX 91961 to compare photogre:.s of flare photographs with thetetaken by Mr. Stevens, . de: on an object "Look" magazine dated 22 Now 48 there wag an « ticl Jwnich eppered the firet gray light of down on how 6. It wor a bright wnite ball with ‘iimy white tall. + Kerley Wood, en astromoner in Sydney, flashed the ry that one of the most spectacular comets yet to appesr in this century made its eppeoramce in the sky over Australia, Three days later ‘ly risere in the southern and we-tern parte of the U. S, were able to ob erve a body with the naked eye. The comt wis vielble for a bricf & nimtes ore it was obscured by the sun's light,