Aughst 4, 1952

Milwaukee Astronomical Soclety
Gentlemen:

Yesterday's Milwaukee Journal carried your request for reports
of sightings of a brilliant meteor last Tuesday evening.

We believe to have seen thie meteor. We timed 14 at 11:12 PM CST
July 29, 1952. It fell. in an apparently verticaA path, and was observed
from epproximtely 60% 30° in # meridional plane. Its direction was
about:5 or 10° EB of N, as seen from Eagle Heights, just west of Madison.
It. fell wery fast, and was seen for about 1-2 seconds, One of us may have
heard an explosion about 2 seconds after the sighting, but this may have
irrelevant. The ssteor was a bright green oolor~—~ the brighteat that one
of us had ever seen.

I hope this information my he useful to you. The mstopr itself as
clearly visible, but it was necessary to mve to another spot to sight
Polaris, which 1a why the directions are as indefinite as given.

Could this have been the same object reported in the newspaper?

Yours sincerely
E, x. Lederberg

J. Lederberg
B.A.D,. Stocker