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Dark Flight: The Hunt for the Tucson Ring Meteorite is the first book since Richard R. Willey’s 1986 The Virgin Irons of Tucson to deal with the 150-year search for the original site of the Tucson Ring Meteorites. Maps, letters and other documents—many unavailable in the 1980s—trace the history of the two known fragments, and present evidence for the possible existence of a third. The books suggests potential sites where other fragments might be found, while offering a new, controversial theory about a hypothetical flight path across the Santa Rita Mountains between Sonoita Canyon and the Rincon Mountains. The book also interweaves the story of the Tucson Ring with the possible “witnessed” 1660 meteorite fall in the Catalina Mountains. The book has no map with an X marking the Tucson Ring’s location. There is no “Ah ha!” moment. Dark Flight provides information for meteorite hunters…” to Dark Flight provides information for meteorite hunters to use and possibly discover their own “Ah Ha!” moment.