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'LIKE BIG F~O'?R LAMP FLYING ALONG'
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Everybody's Seeing 'Things' I
Whizzing Through Night Sky
By CHARLES POU
. burst in mid-air.
of a floor lamp, and it was the
ls that Thing no more than a
5. A flash of cherry red fire. prettiest thing I ever saw. It came
wayward floor lamp?
6. A meteor.
and passed so quick-I guen it
Mrs . .Noah Atkinson, of Brook- . Mrs. Atltinson kept her Fly- mu.st have been 500 miles an hour
llaven, saw it. And what did that mg Floorlamp secret three weeks. or faster."
Thing look like?
B~t she knew she wasn't seeing
And how about the two air­
"A great big floor lamp, all lit things when she saw the Thing.
line pilots, C. S. Chiles and John
up. Oh, il was beautiful!''
.
She.and her husband, who also B. Whitted, of Atlanta?
And C. M. Bowles, an Expos1- saw 1t, kept mum. The story
Well
they
took
off
today,
tion Mills painter who lives near really sou~ded a little silly unt_il armed'with a camera And th
the Municipal airport, Sunday th~ two air line p1lots saw their hope to bring back a· p·ct
1
e~
0
nicht saw a "huge, brilliantly Thmg gamboling and fire-breath- that Thing
ure
:U,hted object" streakjng over At- ing through air-line skies early
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lanta skies at maybe 30,000 feet. Saturday morning.
Be
h Th
C
Mr. Bowles thinks the Thing was
After that, she decided hef tale
OC
rongs
ranl
straight from Moscow.
could be told:
At 'Silver Cylinder'
Two air line pilots :Cirst were
"My husb..,;l'.i 11uu I were sit­
atartled by the newest astronomi- ting on our front porch the night
ASBURY PARK, N. J., J4ly 26.
cal "what-is-it" near Montgomery of J uly 5, and at a quarter to 9 (A")-Boa_rdwalk throngs_ at this
early Saturday. To them it was "a o'clock we saw this Thing. Our resort city craned their necks
wingless craft, spurting flame like front porch doesn't have a screen, Monday at a "s_ilver .cylinder"
a Buck Rogers rocket ship." Else- and we were sitting near the they reported flymg !ugh over­
whcre, all over the country that edge where we could see good.
head.
Thing was variously identifi~d as:
"I saw it first. It was not high
They described it as "wll.y up
1. An aluminum covered bal- '!,IP-about _200 .feet, I guess, but in the air," and like a blimp "only
loon.
it looked hke 1t was right above blunt at both ends."
2, A ball of fire.
the treetops. 'Looka
there', I
Officials, recalling "flying sau-
Ai h R -..usually bright light.
yelle~ to my husband, and he cers," asked Fort Monmouth per­
4. A red and blue flame that saw it too.
onnel to see if they could identify
"It looked like the top part it.
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ATLANTA JOURNAL, 7/26/48