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1(1iricisIS-rsdleHere W e lio A8*i«in%Now People Say They Have Seen Bird as Big as an Airplaneiffidit5-r-s,I*yISn.idkdSt. Louis, April 10 (UP)—A retired air force colonel and a 12-year-old boy tonight backed up a report by two Belvidere, 111,, residents of spotting a ‘monster bird.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 the bird flying over his home in suburban Glendale, Mo., about three months ago. Both Siegmund and the boy said they were apprehensive of telling anyone about ft until they read a 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.Siegmun. now sales manager for the Western Cartridge Oo. at Alton, said he didn't see any flapping of wings but he was sure K was a huge fowl and not a type of aircraft. - -At first I thought there something wrong with my sight,” Siegmund said. “But it was definitely a bird, and not a glider or jet plane.”Big as Pursuit Plane He described the creature sa about the size of a small pursuit plane and said it was flying north-eat at an altitude of between 4,000 and 54XK) feet.Young Trares said he spotted the bird in the air one evening at sunset and ran yelling into his house to tell his mother. He said St was gray-green in shape and about the size of an airplan*
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Wilkes Barre Sunday Independent
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Apr 11, 1948
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