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metallic, rambling or roaring sound, dying away in the distance. 
The interval between the first and successive reports was two or 
of sleépers were roused in an instant, bewildered at the 
unusual and appaling noise; and many were the conjectures 
h 
ime between the going out of the light and the report is 
estimated by citizens here at from one-half to one minute. 
Mr. Pierson of Patterson, a village about one mile, a little west 
of fire apparently as large as a bucket, exceedingly bright and 
dazzling and had a luminous tail apparently. thirty feet long and 
three feet wide; that it vanished or exploded, as he thought, 
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- explosion somewhere in the upper regions. 
The night was one of clear moonlight, and exceedingly cold for 
the season. e night watchmen had witnessed it; and one says 
the he first saw it in the southeast, in size, seemingly, arge as 
a beer keg, and of intense brightness; that i descended, leavin 
but, as he termed it, mo: 
re like t ae 
ears, but much louder, and that the light was brighter than that a 
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