Fiji Produces Another Pacific Myste
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One Going Up, or One Coming Down?
From a Fiji Correspondent The authorities in Fiji have been unable to throw air further light on the tremendous explosion which was reported between Vanua Levu and Viti Levu on the night of January 2!
A BRIGHT flash and then a dull glow followed the explosion which took place in the north eastern sky.
Shortly afterwards, three white lights were visible for about half an hour and then faded altogether.
The Marine Department reported the next day that no ships were reported in the vicinity at that time.
Rumours that America’s latest satellite, the Atlas Explorer, had come to grief were not borne out by any official announcement from the United States or anywhere else.
The detonation was seen and heard at about the same time as the launching of Russia’s latest moon satellite now supposed to be in orbit round the sun—but this was no doubt pure coincidence.
Whatever it was, it’s still a mystery, and like many other happenings in the South Seas, will probably remain so.