MaWe Tend 2 TA NR? ot Tea ee Teokte raed Chad Che AS. Le ase tebe Aels cae ck Ly times tre slaw irea tre rail meal cee UTE 2 Poses Ah. Le Stas ek CNL. SD eae, Ctr te a Tee eee feed wooed 8, be be. Teese eas beret cndy ome Sas Alike Leki cas. 1 large Pessian-perple streamers edict ontemed Co the Brlwasl Aad a Siete terainus. There secre fingereliae projections on thw Srtiem oo of th. wer ra am iteec Finger-lise srojections ccacizucd to crow spoureatls Coeurs gr. lr ond as tise went on, and thes grew for ~wre than a ainete atter the Teak detoo tia, witnin a téw bene oi secomis after Surat, the intense blue glow in the arca ot the burst disappeared and the oky was filled then wita the wery yellow ccatral core whicad reaaiaev Sehind and the large aurural streamers running to the Dortnazast. imacdiately aiter oor glasses were taken off, ome could see a doughnut- shaped white cloud which aushroomed out from the dSurse point, gzew larger am fainter aad by one nimuce was pretey sich invisible. There were nm sounds heard which could Save originated from the ozone Taser and would chereby have taken something lixe 120 seconds or so to reach the Boxer. sounds were heard. At that tine no Yowever, aboard the Boxer and alsv on Johnston I[.land there was a sharp crack heard at sero tine. On the Boxer we hod speculaced that there was an electromagnetic sigcal injected ist. the iF) system; however, since the crack was also heard on Johnston, there was appurently some sound, a sharp, low-intensity crack az zero tise. The prisary shock wave arrived at the Boxer at about 6 ainutes; its a=plitude was abut 0.05 psi and it indeed startled everyone, since awst people had expected mw acoustic disturbance from Teas. The auroral phenocens srsdilized within a few ainutes after burst. The bright yellow core continued to grow whiter as time went on, and it appeared to remain fixed in the sky. diffused our. burst point. The surora became less distinct and sharp streamers It was apparent tuat the source of the auroral phenomena was the There had been speculation chat auroral phemmena sisht be pio- Guced by neutrea 2ecay from acevtrsas which had sone many tChouwods of fect into the alcwsphere aad decayed aareralls with 13 sinutes aslf life, ints protons amielectrans. This eas apauristl, aut the source of tre auroral pnenecena which were chserved. at about 1] simices after Soret cversure eas in tae miést of suny wild speculative sisccosicns sttommeing te eraluin the auresra ant the wees Tsay istensi€: of Sl laalaucion whieh nas Deen wBeerved, temed ord eave, ami -o Torts. As tass ticw ever ime S the ine aas acai to tind, in se