Harvard Observatory identifies bright meteor
1964-07-28·Mount Holly, New Jersey area; also reported from Wilmington, Delaware·FBI·identified
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Edward A. Stewart Jr. reported seeing a bright object in the sky, which Harvard College Observatory identified as a bright meteor or fireball, a small body moving in an asteroid-like orbit.
“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.”
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Case details
- Date
- 1964-07-28
- Precision
- day
- Location
- Mount Holly, New Jersey area; also reported from Wilmington, Delaware
- Country
- United States
- Region
- New Jersey
- Branch
- FBI
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Shape
- bright meteor
Resolution
Identified as a bright meteor (fireball/bolide), a small body in an asteroid-like orbit
Source document
Agency: FBI
File: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_10
Case ID: UNDATED-FBI-F18200
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