J. L. Smith—Two Bolides in Middle Kentucky. 205 
I have no comments to make in reference to the passage of 
this body through the atmosphere, except in connection with the 
blue or purplish cloud seen by all observers and lasting for no 
inconsiderable length of time. These clouds are not unfre- 
uently connected with the passage of these bodies through our 
atmosphere, and are usually more striking in the day time, or, as 
in this instance, just after sunset, when the sun was well situated 
to light up the cloud and exhibit it to the observer who could no 
longer see the sun. \What are these clouds? are they com- 
ese, 
however, are but speculations advanced to draw to the subject 
the attention of other observers. 
tion was the same, viz: Louisville. My own observation was 
made during the last twenty degrees of. its course. It was 
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of its passage being from N.N.W. to SS.E. I did not hear 
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ranklin, 150 miles southwest of Louisville, it was 
observed to have a course from north to southwest, and de- 
scribed as being not less than a man’s head in size, with a light 
bluish color, emitting sparks in its course, but no nuise was 
heard until about three minutes after its explosion, when there 
Was a noise like distant thunder. No fragments resulting from 
the explosion were ever found. 
