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: MYSTERY LIGHT OVER | IPSWICH; HOUSES SHAKEN'r-n Whal ««■ variously described as a fireball, v■n flying saucer, comet meteorite. and light- * n ning passed over Ipswich a few minutes before e 6 p.m. yesterday. At Rrdhnnk it was reported to y ,c have passed 8ft. over two children, and to have gone * e under electric and telephone wires.'• It hook house nnd rattled windows throughout lpuwich nnd suburb*. and wa.s ami l. , hundtrdi who were dusted b- the brilliant dnrr tor n few i, «econd Two explosion-. tin U'rumble oI thunder nnd n irnu- .ol smoke are rrportcd I havi 'followed t|ie phenomenonDozens of Ipswich resident II telephoned the other of the i.(''Queensland Times either to i report the event or to Inquire I about the inyvtetious rumbling *! which had caused thrir honir-• ,tO shake A popular bellel i,was that there had been an r explosion in une uf the many I, mines In the Wrst Moretau I nrra‘LOW OVI.lt BIDHANK, Zlg-ragging like lightning h I Hashed through our o.irk yard . ien» than 15fc from the i ground. said Mis K Ward or the Commercial Hotel. Red-. on 11k. ‘ Passing between the , 'garage nnd the laundry n J went tiencutn clear Ir. light ano .telephone wires, then wentsinuihl off into ihi sky to ihi , north out over Die railway Uni i mil the military camp. It:* ight was so bright that (hr j lights in my kitchen were dim iin coatparison. mut I thought .. they hnd gone out.,1 'I had m two children In the backyard nt the time nnd. after It had panned, n smell llkr burnt rubber seemed to rllng to the kiddles' rnrdlinnn. A kind of smoke . screen »•§ left behind In thr (I ysrd In Its wake.After It went out of the u yard It. was visible for about i another 10 minute*, uut kep: .. fading The further away It I- went the higher It climbed lulo j the »ky''There was no nolnc nt nil. . tald Orshnm. 10-year-old son of Mrt Word. 1 was just •bout to take my young sister . Fronde' Into the house when• the yard appeared to become c os bright os day, and the thing . passed over ua. Francle caught r hold of me. nnd we saw » pasa | under thr electric light wires r and oul of the yard'*Mrs Ward said her milkman 'Mr Swan' told her he had . been nerving customers Just on . the Redbank side of the loop , Itnr. He saw the object quite , distinctly as it fell Hit horse , also noticed It. and reared up.Mr T Fallon, Bi isbsne-rood. . East Ipswich, said he was hnv-, Ing ten nt the time the object . parsed over He heard the «x-■pluMun and thought I1, was n _ road Accident tn front of hlii home.Mi ft Rea. Junctl m-road 1 j, Lower Tivoli. snnl It was like a clt; link) t.n with n null about n u mm ImiH brightly coloured n. .u« n t slhb« He heard two „| dlnltmt tumblings, and the „j grminil shookA “FLYING SAUCER. Mr D Bev in, Hiackull-strcel, »-East. Ipswich, nld llir object T which wan elongated, passed c, over between north and north- w rust rnn a member of the ci Interplanetary Rocker Society p, of Amor ten, aid Mi Bevan, einnd 1 have been correspond- ilt; lug with the nociety In crtft-nertlnn with the flying saucer' D reported to hnvr been recn In K I he United blateo Eye wit- ai lie*;** in America say they q\ hnte seen n craft nnd the .so- »l clety cnivnidei n crult may A have landed from another h planet nnd sent out flying •aucern .ui a kind of spotting -lt; device They could u»e the d e»rlh« gravtlatlona) field n i. Cl kind of drive for them Wlutt C ws.t in t.he sky lo-nlght appear*^ lo me to be something after ,J the Arne style, and I think It;* may have some connection | with the flying saucers ®Mr Bevan added that If the ° object cnme to within a few f feet, of the ground then row u into the sky again It definitely ’ could not have been a meteor- '* Ite A meteorite. he said, would £ ha e come to rarth and Would;,, not have r'sen againReferring to a peculiar smell J like burnt rubber which neem- , ed to cling to the rardtgnns of the two children at Redbank. r M: Bevan snid the gamma „ ray of an atomic blast probably w’ould have had that effectAPPEAL FOR BEARINGSBRISBANE. July 27 House’In every Brisbane suburb, at Bandgate. and os far north as Maleny were shaken by n meteor which pawed over Brii-bar\e noon after « pm. Queens- T land University lecturer In / geology 'Dr. F. Whltehousei . appealed to observers to send * In compass bearings of the flight nnd locality from which they made observation* In the .. hope that the meteor may be p found If It reached earth. «Mr H While. ;f Bald Hills, * commercial pilot, said he hnd r never seen anything llkr It He , thought It was a rocket from p an aircraft- d— - T
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Ipswich Queensland Times
Ipswich, Queensland, AU
Wed, Jul 28, 1948
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