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* Monster Bird’ Reported SeenFly inti;Across WesternSkiesST. LOUIS, April 10. lt;UR—A retired Air Force colonel and a 12-year-old boy tonight backed up the report, by two Belvidere, 111., residents of spotting a “monsterbird.”It was either ihe same mysterious bird of gigantic size they saw or one just like it, they said.Col. W. F. Siegmund, former commandant of the Army air base at Kearns. Utah, said he observed the creature at about 11:30 a. m. last Sunday while horseback riding four miles north of Alton, 111.James Trares, 12, said he saw thebird flying over his home in suburban Glendale, Mo., about three months ago. Beth Siegmund and the boy said they were apprehensive of telling anyone about it until they read the United Press dispatch from Belvidere yesterday.The Belvidere report quoted Robert Price and Veryl Babb as saying the bird was “bigger than an airplane” and flapped its wings,Siegmund, now sales manager for the Western Cartridge Co., atAlton, said he didn't see any flapping of wings but he was sure it was a huge fowl and not a type ofaircraft,Siegmund was riding with a companion. Col. Ralph Jackson, head of Western Military Academy,at the time. Jackson, however, was talking to a farmer and didn't see it, Siegmund said. * and I didn't mention it to him because it looked too incredible.”“At first I thought there was something wrong with my eyesight,” Siegmund said. “But it wasdefinitely a bird and not a glider or jet plane.”He described the creature as about the size of a small pursuit plane and said it was flying northeast at an altitude of between 4,000 and 5,000 feet.“Two Army planes had jvst flown over in the same direction, and Ithought at first it was a pursuit craft following them,” Siegmund * related. “ But from movements of the object and its size, I figured it could only be a bird of tremendoussize.”
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Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama, US
Sun, Apr 11, 1948
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