Show FLIER SAYS SA YS METEOR I STRUCK NEARLY STRUCK SHIP Night ight Mail Pilot Has Narrow E Escape scope as Flaming Bod Body Crashes s to Earth LI LITTLE ROCK Ark Feb 16 Thc CAP AP The strange experience of being bombarded from space by a n meteor was described by Pilot Hiram Sheridan Sheridan Sheri Sheri- dan clan on his arrival here with the eastbound night American Airways mall mail plane from Fort Worth Texas Sheridan said just be before he reached cached Texarkana Thursday night he le saw the meteor break Into flame as It struck the earths earth's atmosphere re and describe a huge ore arc coming directly dl di at the laneI laneI lane I watched it h t for a minute or two the pilot said Id and realized that It was wa coming straight at mc 1 meI I changed my tny course and put on speed but it il looked like it il would strike the plane In spite of all I could doWhen do Wh When n It appeared something was Wa sure to happen I banked sharply to the r right nt and ond at about the same me moment mo mo- mo moment ment the meteor burned out and dis dis- dis appeared Sheridan said he was unable to say just how far the meteor missed the plane but said he thought it barely barel missed When I first noticed the met meteor or it apparently was just entering the stratosphere and it U gave gage off oU o a dazzling dazzling daz daz- white blue-white light that blinded me Sheridan said As it came closer It lost its brilliance until at the time it reached the altitude at which I was flying It was just a glowing red ball It went out completely just after it passed me |