Fireball taken by cameraman from Springfield, Massachusetts
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George Gambino, a cameraman for station WWLP-TV,was returning from an assignment when he spotted a brilliant light streaking between the buildings of downtown and he shot a film with his 16mm Bolex camera
The fireball a fews seconds later
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At the beginind, the meteor looked like a fiery sphere with a twisted tail but it appeared to flicker and desintegrate into beads of light.
The meteore from Utica, N.Y.
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Dana De-george, a high school freshman, took this picture from his front yard. "It looked like a ball that you'd put gasoline on and lit," he said. "And it appeared to break in two just before it went out of sight,"
The bolide over Manhattan
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In New York, 19-years-old William Copeland, a amateur photographer, was prowling along the Brooklyn waterfront and caught it's silvery trail etched against the orange sky over lower Manhattan.