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Flying Saucer; $pd fifcteors Are Getting Mixed Up-OO'Flying saucers and meteors are getting a hit mixed up about the place.On Monday evening many Mutfgee people sa\y a pretty brilliant meteor, but in other parts of the district the observers were quite convinced that the flying saucer season was on again. At Coolah, Dunedoo. Merriwa and Cas-stlis the celestial visitor caused a lot of comment.The assistant shire clerk of Coolah Shire, Mr. Len Hou-lahan. said: “It was flying very high and travelled very fast to the north-east.As it passed over the town there was a terrific rumbling noise. Buildings shook.It was heart-shaped, and was spouting a multi-colored llame from the back. The llame was blue, green and red. In my opinion it was not a shooting star.FUNNY FEELINGMr. Marsden Hobby, guilder, of Coolah. said that the object passed directly over him.“I got a funny feeling Inmy stomach as it went over,”lie said.It was heart-shaped and loll a rainbow reflection behind it. The flame from Uwas many colours, but chiefly bluish.“It was travelling pretty high and very fast. About a minute after it went over there was a rumbling noise.Mr. J. E. Hcnville, licensee of the Hotel Coolah. said that the glass doors and windows of the hotel vibrated as a flash of light went across the sky about 8 o'clock.“I didn’t take a lot of notice of it at the time, but there was a rumbling noise, he said. “Later one of our boarders, the local bank manager, came into the hotel and said he had seen the thing.”Swtcpipthinear ai.m. it r anq“LIKE THUNDER Constable J. Stephenson, of Merriwa. saitf: “I heardsomething at 7 £5 p sounded like thunder seemed to come from the direction of Coolah.“The police station trembled and the rumbling noise continued for about 30 seconds. ■ • - —— -------•--*“I went out into the bac^ yar and looked at th# cloudy sky. but could not see anything.“Sergeant R. Crowhurst hear it at his home and thought it was thunder, too.a*E’PimtbofPimsilt;nlt;uittXV01fr01fiwor
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Mudgee Guardian and North Western Representative

Mudgee, New South Wales, AU

Thu, Jul 24, 1952

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