A Strange Light and Noise
DeRuyter Gleaner, Feb. 10, 1898
Our Fabius [Onondaga Co., NY] correspondent says: About eleven o'clock on Monday night a strange light was seen for a moment apparently in the sky. It was moving at a rapid rate when it suddenly disappeared, and an instant later a loud, sharp noise was heard. It sounded like the bursting of an enormous bomb, and a few miles northeast of here the residents claim that the houses were shaken by it. Some say that the light resembled ball lightning and shot straight downward until it disappeared. Other say that it resembled a falling star, only much brighter. However it was something out of the ordinary and the only plausible explanation is that it was a meteor which, whirling around through space, came near enough to the earth to be attracted by it and in passing through the atmosphere became highly heated and the pressure caused it to explode. This caused the bright light and the noise which followed its disappearance.
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