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oy«ead-bethe ison an p to they fortaven of»aa • p% a at n«u* r rivlllvin hit j saw vriaOne yesr after he was elected— one aide, whereaa most other bibought a farm valves live erect, standing on tlw The farm was edges of their shells.tha 1946— the family b h-. hi York County, Pa.W ■ .\ lt;. T11* sBy BOB CONNELLY. Aviation Editor’ One day recently an adult mem- Pulied From Planeatch Qf a community just outside Sgt. Leo F. Goode of Beckley 8 Beckley phoned us with a “flying now serving with the 503rd Air-to saucer story. borne Infantry Regiment. 11th AirHe, himself, hadn* t seen the Borne Division, escaped with onlyntry thing but his son had and would slight injuries when he was in-AVa.we like to talk to the boy?voived in a freak mid-air accidentWe agreed. The boy related his recently, story of the saucer-sighting very Here's how it happened: excitedly. Sgt Good.was working near tha j ?. r jopen door in preparation for a tac-MUtical type jump that was to take place a few minutes later. In try-youngsters watched not one cer but threeIt was very difficult to get a mg to arrange a large, heavy really good look at them, the boy bundl# #0 that he cnuJd ^ lt explained because they were mov- out wh#n lh# lamj reached the y T ing at an extremely rapM rate of drop ^ h|a rwrve parachult - Al- *P^ed in the direction of the Me- handle caught a corner of the bun-Non-,morialTwo Sighting*He described the “saucers'' asdie and his chute popped open. The slipstream, rushing past the'being bright, silvery discs. At one lt;P*n door whisked the silk canopy icoln P°'nt- he said, they seemed to be lt;j*ul8,d* *h^r® ,t inflated, uolentlythe “Pl*y‘n« around in the sky as *rklP* , G®0lt;,• °vtr the. they sped along. four *lt;ot hl*h bundl* a|l|d out th*CLin- ' w# didn't use the story door* above the ground,leral waa because we were unable to Sergeant Goode's main para-m find an adult in the same general chute was properly hooked to thevicinity who had ^Iso observed the inside of the plane—which is a| ‘‘saucers. However maybe the must for all paratroopers when• ‘n youngsters did see a “saucer af- working near open doors—and itT? ter all because only last Friday, opened immediatley when GoodeanIdlednflu-another sighting was reported in fell from the plane. Descendingthe Beckley area.safely with his tw% chutes, he land-d ofle.This one came from a woman ,*d in an open field about nlna, who identified herself as Mrs. miles from the drop zone whereGeorge Willis of Harper Road. he originally intended to Jump.The 63-year-old Mrs Willis said let. Lt. Salvador J. Porrello. ’•Y she was seated on the porch of her piloting the plane, when notified off house and Just happened to catch the sudden departure of one of histh* sight of the object approaching passengers, pulled out of the for*from the direction of Charleston, mation and circled Sgt. Goode urv“It was very bright and round til Colonel L. A. Walsh, command*liibled and ghghtly larger than ay m: big tub, said Mrs Willis,ood Mrs. Willis said the “aaflieer”moved along at a farily rapid clip zone and taken from there to thaWar but “not as fast as some of our Fort Campbell hospital by ambu-ing officer of the 503rd, arrived in a light plane.Sgt. Goode was flown to the dropches airplanes.*lance. Found to be only bruised.'horn She said the disc seemed to be he was released immediately. u* traveling on its “edge** and dis- A second paratrooper, Pfc. Paul uled: j appeared quickly behind a clump Gray, almost suffered the same iook Df tre*s ^at obstructed her vision fate when Sgt. Goode rimmed him • and kept her from observing it as he flew out the door. Pfc. Gray's for a longer period of time. reserve also popped open but faste «p» 'It didn't mak* a bit of sound agtion on the part of Gray and the neraband was not too high up.’* Mrs planes crew chief. T-Sgt. Law* e all Willis added. rence R. Moore, kept the silk fromm he So there you have two recent going out the door, pow- reports of “saucer sightings in: Sergeant Goode has served inleld. the immediate vicinity of our the armed forces for over tenmountain top city. As for whether years and has been a paratroopar s’* of or not the “saucers'* are from an- since May, 1951. His home is in U. S. j other planet, you the reader prob- Beckley, but he it presently livingeyed, ably know as much about that at Fort Campbell with his wife,coins matter s anyone, including the Eliza Jane, and their two children, thus Air Force which is still puzzled by William Jack, 6. end Brenda Jane, otors. itt alL 19 months.
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Beckley Post Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Mon, Oct 06, 1952
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