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‘These-Fying Discs _ Are at It Again, : Virginians Report Zounds! Here we go again! Inter- planetory 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) aes phenomenon. at it was, where it came from where it was going, no one yws, but even Civil ee inistration officials were} had no answer. “Whatever the thing was, it re- isembled a long cigar, with a it nose and trailing smoke. inciding with that oe from localities along an rect line through eo jinia and seemed sufficient| oo convince even the most sk at what the callers said they a aoe figment of imagination. e descriptions generally in- the object came over cout eae and resembled al tr fire. There seemed to be ee ts or a powerful red glow in jose of the object. Far: back at! the tail there was fire and smoke, The first report came from Roa- noke about 8 o'clock when J. S. Mays and W. F. Mullins, both of that city, 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, Tenn., Bristof, Pulaski, ‘Christiansburg and poinjs west of | Roarpke. y | Wiliam C. Flanik, chef aircraft jcompunicator, CAA, Preston \Gler airport, said none of the Lynchburg tower men had sighted |any unusual objects in the sky.