[[IV-6]] Case 151, CRIFO Orbit, Vol. III (April 6, 1956).
[[IV-7]] Buffalo Evening News, April 10, 1956.
[[IV-8]] Keyhoe, D. E. Flying Saucers: Top Secret. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960.
[[IV-9]] Menzel, D. H. Flying Saucers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953.
[[IV-10]] Ley, W., and von Braun, W. The Exploration of Mars. New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
[[IV-11]] Main, O. Personal correspondence.
Chapter V
OUT OF THE SKY: METEORS AND FIREBALLS
About one o’clock in the afternoon on November 30, 1954, a spectacular meteor flared across the southeastern part of the United States and exploded. Many persons in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi saw the bright flash high in the sky, followed by a trail of smoke, and heard three violent detonations. Over the town of Sylacauga, Alabama, a nine-pound fragment of the falling meteoric body crashed through the roof of a house, bruised the left arm and hip of the unlucky resident, and came to rest on the floor. Members of the American Meteor Society collected detailed descriptions of the event from many witnesses and added this daylight fireball to the official list of observed meteorite falls from which meteorites are recovered[[V-1], p. 128].
UFO addicts, however, apparently regarded both the meteor and its fragments as unnatural phenomena, implied some doubt that the fragment was really a meteorite, and characterized the incident as peculiar[V-2].