Next morning I still felt the effects of the shock; and decided not to go to my office. I stayed indoors all day. When the evening papers came, I found in them brief accounts of the fire-ball; and in one case there was an article by Wotherspoon under the heading: &ldquo;Well-known Scientist&rsquo;s Strange Experience.&rdquo; One or two reporters called at my house later in the day in search of copy, but I sent them on to Cumberland Terrace. In some of the reports I figured as &ldquo;a well-known motor manufacturer,&rdquo; whilst in others I was referred to simply as &ldquo;a friend of Mr. Wotherspoon.&rdquo; I had little difficulty in surmising the authorship of the latter group.<br />In the ordinary course of events, the fire-ball would have been much less than a nine days&rsquo; wonder, even in spite of Wotherspoon&rsquo;s industry in compiling accounts of it and digging out parallel cases from the correspondence columns of old volumes of Nature and Knowledge; actually its career as a news item was made briefer still. An entirely different phenomenon shouldered it out of the limelight almost immediately.