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eere eee a one soe eee wm giddg Horfoik Lundger- ra Flying Disc ‘Bigger Than Automobile’ Photographed y YouftifWho Is Amazed B ecause No One Else Saw It Ry ye HEBRET few seconds later didn’t look any- The fi¥ing disc as Jots bigger ithing like saucers. han an auiomondilg”’ and ls-vear-jLooked Like Football tu aent Hd HE Turrentine: of 416 West; The bov stuck to his = Yourteenth Street, Geese -under-jcomparison, explaining that the stand why almost everybody injobiect was sortapf rounded, more Norfoik didn't see it. oval than disc-like, and that though In fact, when he came -to the Ft wobbled in its northeastward Ledger-Dispatch with a photograph flight it was traveling very rapldly, he had taken of the object, he |@>out 600 miles an hour. wanted to know why the newspa-; He guessed that the altitud® of pers hadn't already taken a pie- the thing was about 5,000 feet, cure of if. “L thought your’ photo-/just below the clouds. In color it sraphers were fast," he told a rejwas “gray, almost black," and worker. looked. like 2 “burned erlsp,” or 1 | ‘NORFOLK BOY AND PHOTO OF DISC —Bill Turrentine,* 15, (righ tells Ledger-Dispatch reporter George Herbert (ieft) of- the “Jack: j [circumstances whieh cnabled him to take the photograph at fi right of a fiying disc. However, the boy said the abject pictured he: looked and moved more Hike a football, dreing rounded and oval, rad than dise-llke. Bill took this picture from the porch of his home ; 410 West Fourteenth Sirect between 11 o'clock and noon Tuesda | (Editor's Note: Although the Maybe a rock or stone. The ed8es | yeing an old camera, with the shutter set at 1/100th of w Recond Ledger -Dixpateh has had many re [glittered, he said, and seemed to be ports of Mying discs and saucers in|tralling dust. Nelther it nor the cevent days, no ooftier person re-ltwo which followed made any ported secing the abject which Tur. /sound. renting phatagraphed.) Bill sald he wasn’t very sur: However, Dill said he had done}nprised when he saw the ‘object, wme fagt moving hiniself shortly [Put “almost killed myself” getting sefora ounor Tursidayv when he shots of it with his camera, set al ee i fiddth of a second. seul on his front porch and saw med iarpe fray object, “rocking |_ He called his 18-year-old sister, ind spinning like a football” and Josephine, to come and took, but ‘oming fron the southwest apparently she didn't believe him, "te had just returned from Sum-| As the “Aving football” passed ner achool classes at Maury, he lover, Rill said he took Uhree shots ‘aud, and with all the talk about [of IL but when he hurriedly cpvel- ‘Qing waucers,” had gone out [pedi the film, after iegging ft == ania od¢ia«. Wil. fanelnl i als mer Bia Lae fiying sO saa 1 ones, all moving at about 600 miles an hour and he guessed they we} about 5,000 fect high, Just belaty the clonds. The photograph reprod ed here is an enlargement miude by Photo Craftamen. In the for ground of young ‘Turrentine’s picture is the porch rail of his home, Oc aT rere enlargement made by Photo Crafts. | Z, hen, 1 ‘ Photo experta of this ‘firm are i convineed that the boy did a fine os job with the old camera he was using. Having closely examined . the negative, they sald the only ‘ flaw was in the kind of film, which nerhaps didn't bring out enough detail. They pointed out, however, that this wasn't really a flaw, in view of the fact that Bill's pheto- fh raph, with the comparison = af- : oh hans wee Follasw ad ™ he WHA GES War owt oy - 4. Nis camera to sea lf he could [Olney Roart for a vial of developer. ef anything. : only one negative came out well rT lon't see: why they call them |e20uRh for reproduction. Choy saucers.” he said. “The big| He showed a reporter a contact wh L Look a picture of and the two {Print he had made himself, and Lue ones that eame behind it a the picture reproduced here jg an rr orded by the front porch rail and the trees, was certainly the best one td#ken since the mysterious | dlannm urnawa ra east cll [SR aT a eel