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U Virginians Report Zounds! Here we go again! Inter- 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 gne according to reports from various sections of Vir-' ginia and Tennessee on last night's} strange phenomenon. What it was, where it came from where it was going, no one ows, but even Civil Aerona ministration —. were p Last and trailing smoke. Re- coinciding with that descrip- ne from localities ta an a. line through Te: Virginia and seemed sui ice even the most sk vhat the callers said they or] vas no figment of remem descriptions generally . the object came over horizon and resembled a fire. There seemed to be s or a powerful red glow in “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,” > : aM Other reports followed from Kingsport, Tenn., Bristof, Pulaski, ‘Christiansburg and poinjs west of | Roarpke. Wiliam C. Flanik, chef aircraft ;communicator, CAA, Preston iGle airport, said none of the Lynchburg tower men had sighted jany unusual objects in the sky.