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i\.re N~w Airliner Lights
Authorities at the Qu~ntico as the Marine Corps is con­
Marine Base last night took a cerne~, a spo~esman said.
long searching look at those . Until laSt night, however, the
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hghts were reported to have
strange flymg obJects with flash- done about everything. Nine­
ing lights seen near the base for teen Marines reported sighting
the past five nights-and de- a mysterious reddish "blinking
cided they were commercial air- or revolving" light over the base
liners.
the nights of December 30 and
Quick as a flash, airlines op- January l, 2 ~nd 3. Rumors that
erating out of Washington con- platoons of 1?,fant~y ha~ ~een
firmed the Marine Corps' guess. sent t? the
landmg site
of
An American Airlines spokes- the_ obJects and a ~eport that a
man said flashing red lights, vis- ~ehcopter fie\~ to mtercept th
ible for 10 to 15 miles have been llghts were discounted by the
installed recently atop the ver- Marine Corps earlier yesterday.
tical stabilizer, or tail, of its
T_he base provo ' marshal,
planes. Other airlines also have MaJ. D. D. Pomerleau, who sa"-1
put in such lights, he said.
the lights twice, guessed tha
A group of Ma1·ine officers they came from an airliner, bu
last night made a field trip to added that he couldn't b sure.
the "Guadacanal" area of the
But last night the Marine
base, west of U. S. 1. They re- Corps had this final word:
ported: "This flashing red light,
"Officials here are convinced
when seen for the first time. by that the unusual phenomenon
the unaided eye, creates an un- was a new navigational light of
usual impression and an illu- greater intensity used on air­
sion of nearness."
liners flying near the reserva­
~::.. t ..l&&t:d the matter as far tion."
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