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WIDE AREA COVERED BY “FLYING SAUCER”“Flying saucers’* have made the news again, with reports that a bright object was seen “streaking across -the sky” on Wednesday night above North Coast centres. 14Residents in Murwillumbah, Lis-,tiveiy low altitude over the range f, more, Kyogle. Mailanganee and of hills between Kyogle and Lar- ' Kempsey reported having seen the nook and continued on a course object at 7 o'clock on Wednesday.jparallel with the ground.A meteorologist in Sydney, how-: Mr. Bodero said that he did not ever, has stated that the phenome-1 hotice any tail to the object, asinon was a comet closer than usual1 described by Mrs. Holmes, of Turn- _ 'to the earth. bulgum. hOpinions in Llsmore differ as to At Mailanganee the object was 0 :he type of the object. Two guests ,sJen by a SrouP of five people as s of the Winsome Hotel say that it!they stood on the roadway. They appeared to be lights of an aero-IJ'er® ™. and Mrs. C. Alvos, Mrs. plane, although it was bright and J*: ^ Miss P. Glynn and Mrs. C. moved fairly fast. i Alford.Mr Mrm‘v 11 appeared m the north-east andh^ ? °? the ocher. was described by those who saw itfrnm t? ^finite that what heia5 a bright meteor with a long tail.! nZJl?,^ corner of Keen and i The last seen of the object was Conway Streets was different from when It disappeared over hills to anything he had seen before. Jthe south of Mailanganee. -He said it tallied with the report Mrs. Alford said no noise was1 of the object seen by residents of1,heard, but this may have been due t North Tumbulgitm, Murwiilumbah.;to the great height at which the‘l Mrs. Noel Holmes, from that; phenomenon waa travelling. The ob-i centre, said the object seen by her,ject appeared to fall as it dis-ln and her husband and Mr. A. Smith appeared over the hills, was round and had a tail. It was There were no reports today *»i moving in an east-west direction.'an vthinc falling to the ground.When Mr. South saw the object| Mrs Roy Patterson, of Gladstone,, it was moving at a fairly fast rate 12 miles from Kempsey, said she, 0 above the ambulance station south;with her husband, two children andjp towards the LLsmore gasworks. |two neighbours, saw what looked b Tlie report from Kyogle was made like a brilliant electric light pass by Mr. J. Bodero, of Highfield, who straight along the sky in a south-noticed a round blue object streak- erly direction at a terrific rate, ing across the sky east of Kyogle “My thoughts instantly turned to towards the south-west. ‘flying saucers’,” said Mrs. Patter- FIt appeared to be at a compara-son. b
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Lismore Northern Star
Lismore, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Dec 01, 1950
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