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DURANGO - A fireball with a long tail of green, orange and purple flames raced across the sky over southwestern Colorado Sunday night. A scientist and a military spokesman said it was probably a meteor. "People said it had a 500-foot tail and it was huge, like a meteor, and green and orange," La Plata County sheriff's dispatcher Kristy Lee said. Authorities in Chaffee and Alamosa counties got similar reports at about 7:30 p.m. The Colorado State Patrol in Alamosa got reports of a fireball with a purple tail and green and white lights, dispatcher Toni Sanchez said. "A meteor...

Monday, July 15, 2002 SALT LAKE CITY — Police are investigating a report that a distraught girl who could match Elizabeth Smart's description was seen last week in Nebraska under suspicious circumstances. Police in Lincoln, Neb., on Thursday issued a nationwide alert of a possible abduction after witnesses at a gas station convenience store reported seeing a crying girl between 12 and 14 who was possibly being held against her will in a minivan. Elizabeth Smart's uncle David Smart on Monday said the family considered the alert about the van, which bore Pennsylvania license plate ECJ1368, a possible tip in...