Planes Drop Mysterious Powder–Update
Officials have dismissed the spraying of white powder over the Grassmire subdivision in Clarksville, Tennessee late Thursday afternoon as a coincidence.
There were rumors that a plane or helicopter spread a mysterious substance over the neighborhood, according to FBI Special Agent Bret Murray. Residents were told to stay indoors with their doors and windows closed. The substance tested negative for anthrax, and turns out to have been ash from a nearby fire at a construction site. It blew over the neighborhood, rather than being dropped out of the sky, but residents believed it was dropped by planes because the neighborhood is in the flight pattern of nearby Outlaw Field, he says.
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