A Possibly Meteoritic Dust‐Cloud

A bstract This note contains a quoted account of an extraordinary observation made by Captain W. L. Stewart of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, on 1948 February 7, at 11 h 45 m U.T., while he was flying west‐bound at an elevation of 10,000 feet, over a point whose equatorial coördinate number (ECN) = +0209,550, of what was apparently a downwardly concave, cylindrical dust‐cloud with a length of nearly 60 miles, which may have been meteoritic in origin.