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Remember Flying SaucersrWe/1
Looks Like Flying Seegars Now
Flying saucers are passe.
Now people in Bristol are see­
ing "long, cigar- shaped ob­
ject" flashing across the sky.
But Bristolians were not the
only spectators ot the strange
craft yesterday evening.
The flaming object was re­
ported sighted at Kingsport,
Christiansburg
and
Roanoke
and three at Pulaski.
Rex Rainey, 1805 State Street,
reported that he saw a "whit­
ish, glistening m;iss, long and
cylindrical like a big cigar,"
flying from east to west about
7:15 Yesterday.
He said be
sighted the "cigar" flying very
rapidly over Virginia Heights
and got out his binoculars to
look at it.
An unidentified caller in­
formed the Herald Courier last
night that she had sighted
something that "looked like
white smoke with a blue name
that traveled to the north and
e~" about the same time. "It
d' 't look like an airplane,"
s
said, "only like white smoke.
I was just a streak and almost
o t of sight it was so high."
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Another· local woman reported
that she had seen
a "silver
streak that looked like it was
about 100 feet long" flash across
the sky shortly after seven
o'clock. She estimated the speed
at about 200 miles per hour.
A traffic controlman at Tri­
Cities Airport, Who asked that
his name be withheld, said that
the strange craft had not been
seen at the airport although
they ha,d had inquires on the
"cigar-streak."
He said he had checked with
the Atlanta Air Route traffic
control center after receiving
inquiries but they reported no
knowledge of any jet aircraft in
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this Yicinity,
He speculated that the streaks
may have been caused by a jet­
propelled plane or planes. "The
objects were reported flying at
an altitude of 30,000 feet," he
said. ''If a jet plane were fly­
ing that high, it would be mov­
ing so fast the vapor trail would
be about all a person on the
ground could see."
The controlman said that the
Pulaski radio reported two seen
there. One about 4 p. m., and
the other an hour later.
He
said that Pulaski also had a pi­
lot's report of the "streak" trav­
eling northeast at an altitude ot
about 30,000 feet.
.Reports on the "flaming ob­
ject" were received at Chris­
tiansburg and Roanoke but air­
ports in those vicinities reported
no information on the strange
craft.-
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