The article below was published in the daily newspaper Liverpool Echo, Liverpool, U-K., February 16, 1967.
On the night of February 15th, a flaming object shot through the sky for 45 minutes down the west coast of America before disappearing into the Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles.
The object was seen by thousands of people from Las Vegas to San Francisco. It appeared to be brightly coloured, possibly in flames, and left a blazing wake.
Mr Troy Norlander, an astronomer at Griffith Park Observatory, said the object was "definitely not a meteor".
Mr Horace Keane, the Federal Aviation Authority's regional duty officer in Los Angeles, said aircraft and ships 100 miles out to sea reported that a mysterious object passed overhead.
Later reports claimed that the object was a Russian booster rocket re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
