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* aoneh as: Jlvanee 5f/is fi These-Fying Dises_ Are at It Again, | Virginians Report | Zoundsi Here we go again! Inter- flanctory space-ship? Visitor from Mars? A new Russian rocket ship’. Airgoing submarine? Just take your | choice, your guess is every bit as: good as the next gne according to: - reports from various sections of Vir-! : ginia and Tennessee on last night's] strange phenomenon. What it was, where it came from | and where it was going, no one hnows, but even Civil Aeronautics Administration officials were puzzled and had no answer. Whatever the thing was, it re- a sernbled a long cigar, with a brignt ; . red nose and trailing smoke. Re- forts coinciding with that descrip- tion came from localities along an almost direct line through Tennessee and Virginia and seemed sufficient io convince even the most skeptical (hat what the callers said they had seen was no figment of imagination. The descciptions generally in- Gieated the object came over the fouthwest horizon. gnd resembled a ttreak of fire. There seemed to be red lights or a powerful red giow in the nose of the object. Far. back at the tail there was fire and smoke, fhe frst report came from Roa- noke about & o'clock when J. &. Mays and W. F. Mullins. both of that eity, said they noticed the object. “It looked like a streak of fire.” }- said Mays, “and appeared to be go-|. ing almost straight up and was)’ - stepping on it." Suddenly, he said, it appeared to level off and head eastward, re- sembling “a snake wiggling on “water.” * . + Other reports followed from -Kingsport, Tena., Briste#, Pulaski, jChrigtiagsburg and poinjs west of Roarbke, Wiliam ©. Flanik, chief aircraft communicator, CAA, Preston . Gle airport, said none of the Lynchburg ewer men had sighted any unusual objects in the ‘. id : : - ay . ris) + RICHT*O ID me my 1 41949 ba - 42994 -19¢ ENCLosupe — Seen ta * nee tie ME cei ge Be hat Pe nag: Sw Oe NE ag TO ek a, 0 ig epee - , » ae 7 sme