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Flying Discs

214 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Sep 11, 1947 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_4 · 214 pages OCR'd
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Looks Like Flying Seegars Now Remember Flying Saucers? Well Flying saucers are passe, Pulaski radio reported two seen ._ Now people in hist as ~ there. One about 4 P. m., and joey O08, cigar-shaped ob- the other an hour later He ject” flashing across the sky. i Siete is gta s : But Bristolians were not the Said that Pulaski also had a Pi- only spectators of the Strange | lot’s report of the “streak” trav- craft yesterday evening. eling northeast at an altitude of The flaming object was re- about 30,000 feet. i at Kingsport, 4 icon ? Christiansburg and Roanoke | _ Reports on the “flaming ob- and three at Pulaski. ject” were received at _Chris- Rex Rainey, 1805 State Street, | tiansburg and Roanoke but air- rted that he saw a “whit- | Ports in those vicinities Teported ish, - glistening mass, long and | 20 information on the Strange _ fpundrical like a big cigar,” | craft, flying from east to W315 yesterday. H sighted the “ . rapidly over Virginia Heights and got out his binoculars to look at it, An unidentified caller in- formed the Herald Courier last night that she had sighted something that “looked like white smoke with a blue flame that traveled to the north and east” about the same time, in’t look like an_ airplane,” | ‘Sle said, “only like white smoke, If was just a Streak and almost Opt of sight it was so high.” Another local woman reported that she had seen a “silver streak that looked like it was about 100 feet Jong” flash across 7 the sky shortly after seven j HEraaD CouwRtEk o’clock. She estimated the speed BrisToak at about 200 miles per hour. A traffic controlman at Tri- a ee lA Cities Airport, who asked that IS RisTeA, | his name be withheld, said that the strange craft had not been = fren at the airport although SA ¥ / Yo _ they had had inquires on the : “cigar-streak,” this vicinity, He speculated that the streaks ay have been caused by a jet- ropelled plane or planes. “The objects were reported flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet,” he said. “If a jet plane were fly- ing that high, it would be moy- ing so fast the vapor trail would be about all a person on the ' 8round could see.” y The controlman said that the i f
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