Stewart meteor observation, July 1964
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Edward A. Stewart Jr. reported observing a bright meteor from New Jersey. Harvard College Observatory identified it as a bright meteor or fireball, consistent with asteroid fragment orbits, with another report from Wilmington, Delaware.
“The object you saw was a bright meteor, sometimes called a "fireball" or a "bolide". Almost all very bright meteors are small bodies moving in orbits rather like the orbits of asteroids, and probably are fragments of asteroids. The direction of motion of your meteor is consistent with that sort of orbit.”
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Case details
- Date
- 1964-07-28
- Precision
- day
- Location
- Mount Holly, New Jersey
- Country
- United States
- Region
- New Jersey
- Branch
- FBI
- Unit
- Harvard College Observatory
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Size
- bright
Resolution
Bright meteor or fireball, asteroid fragment
Source document
Agency: FBI
File: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_10
Case ID: 1964-FBI-505B18
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