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driftwoodPicked up By MARK C. GARNERThe Garners, all four of us. * have now joined the rapid-growing ^ association of saucer sighters. p We saw one of the confounded vthings whirling* through the airover Myrtle Beach. cLast Friday night, the 13th oanaturally, we were returning | home and had just pulled the car t into the driveway and turned the t switch. Immediately daughter t Jeanne, six, began yelling excited- r ly, Iook, daddy, look.” On pro- vious occasions we've responded to such a summons with utmostspeed only to find a black cat rI strolling across the lawn or a hird ' | sitting on the clothesline. So we *' ( ignored the plea until son Craig, ! four, joincnl in with the same call.They both pointed skyward and.I sure enough, there it was an 1 , object like nothing we’ve ever • seen before, seeminglv round with ^ a brilliant light \isible in front * , of a grayish or silver oval. To *our eyes the object appeared to roll slightly, causing the light to have n blinking effect. My wife, who ran through the yard to a better vantage point, saw the same silvery outline hut the light appeared constant.When first seen, the light appeared as a falling star. Its path, however, was momentarily level. Then it swooped down in a huge arc. climbed slightly, and leveled off, disappearing from our vision behind nearby houses and trees.To the four of us it seemed to be traveling from northeast to southwest and its distance from us can only be pure speculation. At its closest point it appeared to be approximately a mile northwest of our house on 25th Avenue.I glanced at my watch. It was exactly 0:20 p. m.We heard no sound above the noise of cars on the nearby high-, way. There were no vapor trails, i though at twilight these would he hard to distinguish. A few stars I were beginning to appear, though the sky was still relatively light from the last rays of the setting sun. But the lighted object outshone stars by far and was sufficiently bright to attract our attention. It traveled with the approximate speed of a fast plane as it swooped low and leveled off. We saw it probably no more than 15 seconds but the four of us certainly got more than a glimpse of the strange object.Jeanne sticks to her story that it looked like a silver ball somebody threw up in the sky.Craig says only it looked like a falling star.But the children's reaction is the only unusual feature which might distinguish this from any j other report of flying saucers. To l my knowledge they are about as familiar with the term “flying saucer as they are with Adam's house cat. They were not, as sonic adults apparently do. scanning the heavens for a flying saucer. They have not even been aware of the) recent interest in sky-riding balls of light. They can recognize and distinguish between n jet. a pro-:*• I’.er- Irivcn p’ane. a b'imp. and a hcii opter. And they know it was none of these. As we were watching the thing their of-repcated •I'.iodinn was “What is it?Of co r*e. f.lt;* answer is readily available to their question or to any others. We all know, h w-ever. that we saw something.
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Tabor City Tribune
Tabor City, North Carolina, US
Wed, Feb 25, 1953
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