http://www.ufoandparanormalnews.com/Government-Stories/the-nevada-fireball/ On April 18, 1962, an unidentified flying object , most commonly referred to by witnesses as a "fireball" or a "meteor", crashed in Nevada after a near cross country flight. The event received coverage in newspapers, was documented by Project Blue Book, and the object was tracked on radar by the Air Force to a specific area in Nevada, before it vanished from the radar screen, in the same area note Read Mored by witnesses in Las Vegas, just before an apparent explosion, followed by a "column of brilliant smoke." Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:35:24 UTC en