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Lynch,..ur Advance
5/13/A9
Th&se Aying Discs
Are at It Again,
Virginians Report
Zounds! Here we go again! Inler­
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 qne according to
reports from various sections of Vir­
ginia and Tennessee on last night's
strange phenomenon.
What it was, where it came from
and where it was going, no one
knows, but even Civil Aeronautics
Administration officials were puzzled
and had no answer.
Whatever the thing was, it re­
sembled a long cigar, with a bright
red nose and trailing smoke. Re­
\ rorts coinciding with that descrip•
tion came from localities along an
almost direct line through Tennessee
and Virginia and seemed sufficient
to convince even the most skeptical
that what the callers said they had
seen was no figment of imagination.
The descriptions generally Jn­
oicated the object came over the
couthwest horizon and resembled a
ctreak of fire. There seemed to be
1ed lights or a powerful red glow in
the nose 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., Bristi Pulaski,
Chrt·tiansburg and poin s west of
Roa
ke.
1 w liam C. Flanik, ch t aircraft
c-om unicator, CAA,
'
Preston
Gle
airport, said none of the
Lyn burg tower men had sighted
Iany unusual objects in the sky.
FBI ­ RIC'-'t'O!m
M?W 141949
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