Merrill reported that small meteors are not rare, but this one was unusual became most small meteors are not as brilliant as this particular meteor was. The Leader-Telegram quoted Professor Merrill who said he had received a letter about the meteor from Washington, D.C. “Though science explains the meteor,” the newspaper opined, “there is something awesome in a visitation by one of these strange bodies, coming from nowhere and carrying - so far as humanity is concerned - no message.”īoth La Crosse and Madison residents reported seeing it travel across the sky. The spot where the meteor impacted the earth was quite obvious but the meteor was buried so deeply it was not found afterward. When it hit the ground, it appeared to spread out in all directions. “Its flight through space somewhat resembled that of a big ball of fire which was as brilliant as an arc lamp,” the Leader-Telegram reported a few days later. The dazzling spectacle was witnessed by several people including Dr.
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