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candescent material. _ The Naval Observatory, the Weather Bureau and observers at National Airport lean toward the meteor theory. h ‘Scores of Washingtonians, who saw it, leaned in all directions. Police remained stolidly upright, and the FBI had no comment, | HOW IT LOOKED Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl. vania and Ohio couldn't be silenced. | They said: “Suddenly this thing came | swooping down from the eastern | skic It looked like it was right above the housetops. It was a ball ‘ight greenish fire with a long (This was a housewife), © “I thought it was a_ flying ‘saucer. I thought it was a flare at first—that is, I thought it was a flare until the darned thing swooped | down—and then up again. It seemed ollow the contours of the road.” t first look like a fire, it was that big. Tt It has been pretty well established today that the “mass of flaming, incandescent material” which flashed across the sky over Washington and five eastern states last night was a meteor, a flying saucer “as big as a washtub,” or a mass of flaming, in- _ But citizens here, in Maryland, | {p; was sun-colored with a tail.” (Sub- urbanite. ) | © Shaped like a star “about as big | as the inside of a tennis racket.” (12-year-old boy.) " SHOCKING Four Frederick farmers saw “a ball shooting across the horizon.” Near Washington, three United Press correspondents said it was like is: © “A rocket with a fiery tail... It shocked us, it looked So close.” (Frank Eleazer.) © “A big magnesium flare. . . It gave off sparks.” (Robert Loftus.) © It plunged out of the sky “very fast,” like a plane shot down in the war. It was trailing a tail of flame.”—(John A, Goldsmith.) George Lincoln, of 756 S, Green- brier-st, Arlington, saw something “about as big as a washtub. I was sure it was going to crash, some place,” he said. orate A Maryland state trooper, sitting out. his lonely vigil atop’ Negro Mountain in far Western ryland, said “it” passed over him, too. pe Laughlin Mohr Winterrowd Tele. Rm. Holloman Gandy “ aD ape , Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass Date: