Bright Light Across South Linked to Meteor Activity
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BLUE RIDGE, Ga. — A bright light that flashed across the Blue Ridge Mountains in four states and vanished with an earth-shaking sound was a meteor or a shower of meteorites, officials said Tuesday. The flash at dusk Monday touched off a flurry of telephone calls to police in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina.
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