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Flying Discs
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Looks Like Flying Seegars Now
Remember Flying Saucers? Well
Flying saucers are passe, Pulaski radio reported two seen
._ Now people in hist as ~ there. One about 4 P. m., and
joey O08, cigar-shaped ob- the other an hour later He
ject” flashing across the sky. i Siete is gta s
: But Bristolians were not the Said that Pulaski also had a Pi-
only spectators of the Strange | lot’s report of the “streak” trav-
craft yesterday evening. eling northeast at an altitude of
The flaming object was re- about 30,000 feet.
i at Kingsport, 4 icon ?
Christiansburg and Roanoke | _ Reports on the “flaming ob-
and three at Pulaski. ject” were received at _Chris-
Rex Rainey, 1805 State Street, | tiansburg and Roanoke but air-
rted that he saw a “whit- | Ports in those vicinities Teported
ish, - glistening mass, long and | 20 information on the Strange _
fpundrical like a big cigar,” | craft,
flying from east to
W315 yesterday. H
sighted the “ .
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 flame
that traveled to the north and
east” about the same time,
in’t look like an_ airplane,”
| ‘Sle said, “only like white smoke,
If was just a Streak and almost
Opt of sight it was so high.”
Another local woman reported
that she had seen a “silver
streak that looked like it was
about 100 feet Jong” flash across 7
the sky shortly after seven j HEraaD CouwRtEk
o’clock. She estimated the speed BrisToak
at about 200 miles per hour.
A traffic controlman at Tri- a ee lA
Cities Airport, who asked that IS RisTeA,
| his name be withheld, said that
the strange craft had not been =
fren at the airport although SA ¥ / Yo
_ they had had inquires on the :
“cigar-streak,”
this vicinity,
He speculated that the streaks
ay have been caused by a jet-
ropelled 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 moy-
ing so fast the vapor trail would
be about all a person on the
' 8round could see.” y
The controlman said that the
i f
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