PAE NOTE: Obviously for someone to have seen this, they would have had to be awake and probably outside. And it wouldn't have been seen if it was cloudy or foggy. I wonder if it had been predicted. Maybe someone with an online newspaper subscription might be able to find a record of it to share with us. This description comes from NJ. " Meteoric Shower of 1833 On the night of the death of John Lock occurred the renowned display of meteors. This is described as being universally seen and as lasting from before midnight till the dawn prevented further observation of the phenomenon. While there have been during the centuries other noted displays of falling meteors, this display of the 12-13 (Tues. night/Wed. morning) November, 1833, is the greatest one ever witnessed in this country as regards the intensity of the display, the extent of surface covered by it and the duration of the meteoric shower. It was visible over the entire United States and continued during the entire night. ... While in some places the display was accompanied with no noise, in other sections of the country sounds were heard as of objects hissing through the atmosphere, and in others as of explosions of inflammable objects. " Source: Genealogy of Some of the Vail Family Descended from Thomas Vail At Salem, Massachusetts 1640 Together with Collateral Lines; by Wm. Penn Vail, M.D., 1937, pp. 438-9. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

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