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Pe, 4 RES “Rete con say ane I. RELY, PLEASE BUFR TO ra FRE Fen, Sy WELLE CALOWELL The strange object seen travel- ‘@ actos the heavens just after undown lest night has caused idespread. speculation here> in. ‘adford as well as in other sec- aw of Southwestern _ Virginia ~] Eastern Tennessee. =~ Exactly what the mysterious aveler was, no ane here stems know, and the mimber of con- .ing reports have only. added the confusion. ~ Thus much seams fo be cer- nr the object appedred over e Southwest horizion shortly afore Bop. m,. and was moving -stward. Also, & was. black, or * + Jeast part of it was. _ - & Radierd man, ving fn the “st end section, asked that ‘his amé pol be used, bus give this “Tretorn: To owas working in the "yard nen T glenced up and saw’ « mg Black thing flying -acros¢ ie sky. Jt came from the direc- an of Pulaski. reat deal hke «a “rounded . stick | wR Fred Ww, Hurt,” of Fourth’ and comel or a meteor, but i seemed. | Bedford toe fF * wood which’ was burning i Ne Federal Bureau of Investination United States Department of Iustice fad eo Aheas Joarnsl adferd U% Ar rere een amet tte Did You See ‘Tt? Well, ‘What Was Tt? \ front. ‘The object war trailed by peither vapor or smoke and faded from view when it seemed to be | directly averheadk’ +. - Mrs. Alfred Tolley, of 1702 Seventh Street, west, reported her 12-year-old sen, Albert, was | | of fire, but the tral didn’t onl the object. She said her son had been studying comets in school and called her attentian to the phenomenon, thinking that jt was either a comet or e meteor. “Phe strange Jooking abject” fi she said” “was Teng and black Harvey Streets, gave’ this ver- ta “be traveli ng teo slowly 1 sion: “At the dirst appearance a shat. .-It¢ appeared in the sou locked Hke @ comet. I> recz a1 | west and traveled toward 1 Helley’s comet-and i resembled (east. There was a kind of re that. There was, at first, « dish looking smoke bout i." bright spot. ahead ‘of the-stream|: Miss Dody Jones, -of Harv Street, reporied watching 4 phenomenom with a group children in the -neighborho: She said it looked Hke “whal think a comet would look Hk “Ht was a red flare", she cc tinued, “which was Night on 4 front. It moved. slewby fr: the Southwest and traveled wt ad its ‘zenith. “Ft appeared te be moving slows ly af first and ister very fasi, whick indicates that i was quite a distance away when Po first faw ik! The ‘object ‘sermed* to follow a-straight sath, however with a light on ihe front end. ° Tt} it vdered a Hiltle once ~~ in sort of an are — “and then straighted aut agin, I heard mo moire. © Mrs. James T. Heinkine, of 60 Jackson Street, Mowroe Terrace, playing next door and noticed | seemed to fallow the air reute from. the directon of Pulaski, later tuning and heading foward seemed (© be xtraight up. curved toward the #asi and { fire streaks trailing it got long as they began to fade-out,” L. B. Graybeal, of Christiar Blacksburg. “Theré-was a Nghi on. the Jront end and great long sireaks of fire. (We saw HH. for about. HW) minetes,* : Miss Joe Stewart, of the Rad- ford College biology department, said she saw the abject and ag- sumed it was the exhaust. from it looked xian airplane, She added that ehe “in fo Wey alarmed.™ } said she and her husband. watch- | burg, a former Air Force pal ee it with some neighbors. estimated. the altitude of t “It Joowed Uke’ a Jong black jobject at 0.000 feet, He sx cigar-owhich was on. fre", she | there was a Hght fram the aby stated, “We heard a faint sound, ss it passed over and w “reari which might have been a emallisound.” — meter. At fimeés 3 jocked like) Other reporis have “been t an airplane “way, “way off, <P] celvad from ap far West as: King thought’ at first it might beatport, Tenn. and as far East 86 bright wher: the object | # concrete tee | mie £6949. | NR (Co Lye 7 aged coger Vow ig ee foo we a ¥ By.