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The Nation - News from March 25, 1985

Persons from Tennessee to Florida saw in the night sky a streaking object they described as “much bigger and brighter than a shooting star.” Reports of the object, which pilots said “changed from red to green to orange,” were typical of descriptions of a meteor, said Ken King, the Federal Aviation Administration supervisor at Huntsville, Ala. In Washington, FAA spokesman Dennis Feldman said, “Our people report a fireball as far north as Chattanooga and as far south as Orlando. We have no idea what it was.”

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