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JOHN M. CARLISLE REPORTS. OPPOSITE. 

 "Those were dramatic seconds in sheer beauty. 

 The cloud was a pheasant brown with white patches 

 at first. Then it began an amazing transformation 

 in colors and shapes before our eyes. It seemed 

 to steam and boil and churn at the bottom. There 

 it turned laundry white. It was pinkish in the mid- 

 dle, salmon colored at the top. In less than two 

 minutes it climbed higher than the altitude of our 

 ship "The Voice." The mushroom broke out sud- 

 denly at the top, and the cloud changed colors. 



It was a fascinating picture. For a few minutes if' 

 looked like a giant ice cream cone as it turned' 

 completely white. Looking at it then through bin-' 

 oculars it seemed like floating layers upon layers 

 of whipped cream. Again it changed colors, now 

 to peaches and cream. It broke into two mush- 

 rooms, the second quarter of the way from the 

 crest. All this time the trade winds were driving 

 it hard . . ." (From the Able Day Pool News Re- 

 port). ABOVE. The bomb cloud photographed 

 by a drone B- 1 7 about to pass right through it. 



