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- Fiery Soviet Space Debris Lights Up Night Sky
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- On Friday night, March 25th, the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle,
- Washington received three phone calls from Beaumont, Texas and parts
- of Louisiana reporting a fiery aerial display that turned out to be a
- Soviet satellite re-entry. The following report was printed in the
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer March 26th:
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- "Soviet space debris bigger than a railroad boxcar re-entered the
- atmosphere in a brilliant atmospheric fireworks display last night
- that triggered phone calls from curious skywatchers in Texas,
- Oklahoma, and Arkansas."
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- "'I saw a meteorite once that was pretty spectacular, but this one
- jsut blew that away. This was the most amazing celestial event I've
- ever seen,' said Chuck Farr, 33, of Round Rock, Texas."
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- "'It was part of a package that was sent up a couple of days ago
- from the Soviet Union,' said Lt. Col. Ivan Pinnell, a spokesman for
- the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD."
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- An interesting sidelight to this story emerged when Robert Gribble
- of the UFO Reporting Center called NORAD to confirm the satellite re-
- entry. After the Major on the Public Information Desk learned who he
- was and what organization he represents, he asked, "How come you guys
- aren't over at the conference in Arkansas?"
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- Bob told him that he was too busy to go. "Yeah, we're too busy,
- too," he replied with a laugh.
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- File: REENTY.SAT 1536-T
- 06-APR-88
- Dir: 5 Sec: 1 - UFOlogy
- From: Donald Johnson
- Acc: 6
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- Soviet Satellite Debris 3/25/88
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