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A Meteor over Cajun Louisiana

Around 10 p.m. on March 15, 1957, a fiery meteor emitting a shower of red sparks hurtled over south Louisiana, turning darkness to broad daylight before slamming into West Côte Blanche Bay. Windows rattled, some shattered, and police throughout central Acadiana [the Cajuns parishes of south-central Louisiana] fielded calls from hundreds of frantic citizens. No, they replied, it wasn't a mid-air collision, an oil-rig blowout, a "space ship from Mars," or "la fin du monde," the end of the world. It was only a chunk of rock from outer space.
Significantly, some Acadiana residents assumed that what they had witnessed was an incoming missile and the flash of an atomic blast. They believed that the Soviets had launched a nuclear attack on Baton Rouge or New Orleans.

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A large piece of the object reportedly fell just off 'Point No Point' on the Louisiana coast, directly between the East and West Côte Blanche bays.



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A large meteor passed over New Iberia the weekend of March 13-15 1957. It passed over the city late at night (around 10:20 P M ) Many saw it and were frightened . It turned night into day for about 90 seconds. I was just leaving a track meet at Lloyd G. Porter stadium waiting outside for a ride home when the fantastic ball of green and white bright light came from the North and blew up over Marsh Island. A lady standing near us fell to her knees and started praying out loud. Many thought it was the end of the world. The Daily Iberian reported it was a meteor. Later we discovered it may have been an attempt by Russia (The old USSR) to launch their first earth satellite and failed. Later that year on November 4th Russia did put one in orbit .
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