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This U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book case file, hosted by The Black Vault, covers a fireball seen on 9 December 1965 over Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Canada, and concludes it was a meteor. It holds memos on calls about Acme, Pennsylvania, where a search from the Oakdale Radar Site found nothing, plus letters from witnesses and a photographer. It also includes a Sky and Telescope article on the Great Lakes fireball and letters identifying material found in Lapeer County as chaff.
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## GREAT LAKES FIREBALL was much closer than it really was. When it disappeared behind a house or a tree many people thought it had fallen only a few hundred yards beyond. "If the meteorite had fallen a few minutes later that day, it probably could have been recovered from the much more favorable terrain farther west. The steep trajectory with the short visibility of the fireball indicate that it was extraterrestrial matter rather than a returning space craft." William Werner, a regional director for the American Meteor Society, submitted three sightings. One was by Howard Duell of Wooster, Ohio, who described the fireball as "very bright, ye lowish, like a rocket flame. Blue-gra smoke trail remained one minute; la puff, five minutes." Peter M. Millman of the National Research Council of Canada forwarded a report from H. Needham at the London Ontario, airport. He described the lingering train as seen most of the time again a clear western sky. It became twisted an off-white in color, ending as "a thin ho zontal cloud" visible for at least 20 minutes.
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