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Incident: 185 Object was sighted from 13th and Lake Street, Minneapolis & at 7th Street and 4th Ave., Minneapolis, by Lawrence A. Hansen, teletype operator and Harold Oliver, Mailman, at approximately 0550 hours 20 October 1948. Witnesses stories seem to conform in pattern throughout. The front of the object seemed blurred as if enveloped in smoke; whereas the rest of the main body was a fiery orange color. The tail seemed to be boiling sheets of flame which carried on back at variable distances and broke off dropping vertically for a short distance and then becoming indistinguishable. The object was last seen by both witnesses entering the cloud bank to the north-northeast and disappearing.