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“FLYING SAUCER ERA RETURNS TO UNITED STATES?VAKIMA, Washington, July 26.—Tha flying saucer era may have returned to the United States. Two civil aeronautics administration employees and a farmer^ reported yesterday that they saw a “silvery moon-sised object floating through the air oyer th* city just after midday and again at 4 p.m., local time.“It could not have been m weather balloon. becau»e It was floating upwind. It was flying low and seemed to have flashing light* like a fog light. they aald.Meanwhile at Atlanta. Georgia, two pilots who claimed on Satur-dny that they uw a hngf flame shooting Speed Gordon type aJcy monster while flying over Alabama stoutly maintained yesterday that It was a man made gadget.They described It ob “a wingless affair with a circumference 'our times that, of a Supcr-Fortrcsa fuselage. It was definitely Jet-propelled, and had two rows or window#, each about the sire or ordinary house windows.The pilots say they will be flying along the route again this week and will take still and movie cameras in case the mystery monster appears again“IN AWFUL HURRYA Portland. Oregon, resident re-Ced yesterday that he saw a round, bright object going west. It suddenly veered southwest In an awful hurry. It bore no resemblance to an aircraft and w«a roundish like a disc, he wild.STREAKS OF LIGHTTwo other airline crew# in the southern United Slates now report they saw “streaks of light during Friday night.The pilot of one aircraft said he was near Blackutane. Virginia, at the timeThe pilot of the other said he was near Washington. D.C.“The time# of sightings indicate that all three crew* may have seen the same thing, said one of the pilots.In Yaktma later hundreds of people telephoned the civil aeronautic* administration ofllcrs. reporting they had seen a “moon sired blob” wheeling across the sky above the city.HPACK SI1IF?LOS ANGELES, July 20—R. Dewitt Millet, author of For-I gotten Mysteries.” told the I United Press that the strange air-| craft reported sighted In Alabama I on Saturday by two airline pilots ! might have been n tpace ship from another planet.! He said: “Our scientists inform ! us that we may soon build r.p*ce I rocket*, so why should not the ! being* on some other world beat ! us to It?
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Mackay Daily Mercury
Mackay, Queensland, AU
Tue, Jul 27, 1948
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