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10 Til e. Ch n rip si on Gazette Sunday, Sept. 14. 19o2. - ■ — - ■—....... i'~'*...............Did It Ride Meteor?Boys Spot Appalling Creature Near Flat woods, Link It to Passage of Fiery Object, in Skies{Cf»ntinnrd From Page i) standing near me jumped over mfthere stood this—thing. I screamed ancj took off down the hill with and fell over backwards. A boy the rest of them behind him. I go-. .......... ~ ~ up and took off, too. Nothing coulcmake me go back up there,” s Police were notified and so was A. Lee Stewart, co-publisher of The Braxton Democrat Stewart talked to the witnesses and reported they were all trembling and frightened and that the one boy who bad held the flashlight was near collapse.The witnesses said the object ap* peared to be moving toward them.Stewart and several men with shotguns went back to the scene According to Stewart, there was c strong, sickening burnt metallic odor still prevailing, but there was no sign of the monster. Grass appeared to have been trampled down around the scene.Among those wlio reported seeinsthe strange visitor were Mrs.Kathleen May and her two children and Gene Lemons, about 17 all of Flatwoods. An unidentified j child was reported to have gone jinto convulsions.1 When questioned as to the possibilities of the thing having been a moss covered tree with an animal roosting in it, Stewart answered:“I don’t think so. They saw the .“whatsis” on the brow of the hill and there was nothing around except this large tree that it supposedly stood beside. The rest of the hillside is covered with smallshrubs/'Residents of Little Birch reported ; seeing a fiery object flash over-ihead shortly after the report of the -monster was made.! Ifc was conceded that the monster may have climbed in bis ship” and taken off again after his untimely visit.The atmosphere in the vicinity was reported as being “close and hot, with the foul odor prevailing.” Yesterday, residents of the area were probing the hillside looking for signs or fragments of the monster and his craft,‘T have never seen people scared as badly as those that reported seeing the thing,” Stewart stated. “I said to one man, T would have given $100 to have seen that thing.1 He replied, 'I would have given $1,000 if you had seen it in my place.’” iResidents of West Virginia, Mary-; land, Pennsylvania and Washington,' D. C., Friday night saw what mosb observers considered to be one of; the most brilliant meteors to streak; across the sky in recent years.It supposedly fell somewhere within a 5G-mile radius of Charleston.
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Sep 14, 1952
Page 10
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