This Week In Illinois History: Stars Fell On Illinois (July 13, 1927)

from This Week in Illinois History · host Clint Cargile

On an overcast afternoon in 1927, three violent explosions shook the sky over southern Illinois. What some residents feared to be an air invasion turned out to be the state's first recorded meteor strike.

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