METEOR TERRIFIES CITY
Thousands of people in Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, were lately thrown into terror by an enormous meteor which hurtled across the sky with a roar like that of an express train. People rushed into the streets to find the city lit up with an unearthly glare. For nearly a minute the meteor was in sight. Women shrieked and hundreds knelt in prayer in the streets. Then the noise and the glare died away as the meteor vanished over the Atlantic. Many meteors fell in various parts of the world in 1931, and one shower in Brazil set fire to hundreds of miles of Jungle. In August a meteor, believed to have weighed six tons, burst over the Marne Department of France, so that fragments covered five acres of land. In June strange lights in the sky, believed to have been caused by the burning up -of large meteorites, puzzled observers in and around London.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21580, 27 February 1932, Page 12
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