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The Fireball That Skimmed Earth in Broad Daylight (1972)

On a clear afternoon in August nineteen seventy-two, thousands of people across the American West looked up and saw a ball of fire crossing the sky. And then they watched it leave. It came in over Utah, in broad daylight.

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