For 62-HQ-83894 serial 0ed73dbf-4f1d-43ba-a3e5-29660c4b75bf, what did Raymond Edward Lane report?

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For 62-HQ-83894 serial 0ed73dbf-4f1d-43ba-a3e5-29660c4b75bf, what did Raymond Edward Lane report?

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On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a "puff" noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan [62-HQ-83894/0ed73dbf-4f1d-43ba-a3e5-29660c4b75bf]. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the following day for examination. Laboratory analysis of the recovered material found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off an ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material [62-HQ-83894/0ed73dbf-4f1d-43ba-a3e5-29660c4b75bf]. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department [62-HQ-83894/0ed73dbf-4f1d-43ba-a3e5-29660c4b75bf].