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'Aying FloOr Lamp~
Again Sighted Here
B;v CHARLES P OU
she did see "a great ball of fire I
lamp" is at
That "flying floor
it again!
cantaloupe
An
. Illuminated
rolled over the city!
And a newspaperman saw "great
balls of fire!
What's more, two Richmond Va.,
i;choolteachers say they saw the
"fl
rt·
,,
k
same
. ame-spu mg
5 Y mon­
st~r "".h1ch ~as spotted by Eastern
Air Lines pilots near Montgomery.
Like Red F loor Lamp
"I i;aw Halley's comet-and it
was nothing like what I saw last
'night," declared Ml·s. W. R. Dell<.
of 914 Hemphill a\'e., N. W.
Breathlessly, Mrs. Delk continued:
. "The front end of it looked like
a flying floor lamp-a fiery-red
floor lamp. Then it trailed of1 in
llittle square sections.
"Oh, Halley's comet was nothing
like that."
1
\
And Mrs. Delk was joined by al
least 15 other Atlantians who saw
a Thing which banked and rolled
and breathed fire over the city
Monday night between 8 p. m.
and 9:45 p. m.
In the downtown section, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard P. Sellers were
1minding their own business when
I
a "reddish-white ball of fire about
the size of a cantaloupe with a
tail on it" da~ed over buildings.
I Mrs. A. C. ~•bY, or'Carey Park,
has never seen a purple cow but
with a great long purple tail on
it." That was about 9:40 p. m.
"Bluish Streak of Light"
An attendant at the naval air
station thought he was watchi:i.'I
a falling star, until it started
climbing and banked away from
Atlanta. To him, it looked like a
"bluisdh streakb of ltihght."
An now a out
e newspaper­
man. John Batlle, city editor of the
Augusta Chronicle, hung up the
telephone after a dozen calls about
weird goings-on in the Augusta
skies.
He looked 8':i+' 1:,o=A:11ifl 1/IJI
He summoned his st11;Y,.ffl:.i
'1'reat balls "' 'ire,._.~
ATIANl'A JOURNAL, 7/27/48