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ng Fron Norfolk Ledger-Dispa 79-47 Date. Flying Disc'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who ls Amazed Because No One Else Saw It By GEORGE HEBERT Jfew seconds later didnt look any- The flying disc was lots bigger thing like saucers. than an automobile, and 15-year- Looked Like Football old Bil Turrentine of 410 West The boystuck to his football stand why almost everybody in object was sorteof rounded, more Norfolk didn't see it. oval than disc-like, and that though In fact, when he came to the it wobbled in its northeastward Ledger-Dispatch with a photograph flight it was traveling very rapidly, he had taken of the object, he about 600 miles an hour. wanted to know why the newspa He guessed that the altitude of pers hadn't already taken a pic- the thing was about 5,000 feet, ture of it.I thought your nhoto- just below the clouds.In color it graphers were fast, he told a re- was "gray, almostblack, and porter. looked like a "burned crisp' NORFOLK BOY AND PHOTO OF DISC-Bill Turrentine,15, (right tells Ledger-Dispatch reporter George Herbert (left) of the lueky circumstances which cnabled him to take the photograph at far right of a flying disc. However,the boy said the object pictured here looked and moved more like a football, being rounded and oval, rather than disc-like. Bill took this picture from the porch of his home at 410 West Fourteenth Street between 11 oclock and noon Tuesday, Editor's Note:Although the maybe a rock or stone.The edges Ledger-Dispatch has had many re-glittered, he said, and seemed to be using an old camera with the shutter set at 1/1ooth of a second. He said the "flying football shown here was followed by two smallr ports of flying discs and saucers in trailing dust. Neither it nor the ones, all moving at about 60o miles an hour and he guessed they we e ported seeing the object which Tur sound. about 5,ooo feet high, just belorv the clouds.The photograph reprodu rentine photographed.) Bill said he wasnt very sur- ed here is an enlargement made by Photo Craftsmen In the fon However,Bill said he had done prised when he saw the object, ground of young Turrentine's picture is the porch rail of his home. some fast moving himself shortly but "almost killed myself"getting shots of it with his camera, set at enlargement made by Photo Crafts stood on his front porch and saw men. "rocking He called his 18-year-old sister, Photo experts of this firm are apparently she didn't believe him. job with the old camera he was coming from the southwest. As the flying football passed using. Having closely examined He had just returned from Sum- the negative, they said the only flying saucers, had gone out oped the film, after legging it to detail. They pointed out, however, only one negative came out well that this wasn't really a flaw, in "anything. view of the fact that Bills photo- I don't see why they call them enough for reproduction. He showed a reporter a contact graph,with the comparison af forded by the front porch rail and ENCLOSURE i the trees, was certainly the best discs were first renorted