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lying Disc ‘Bigger Than Automobile’ Photographed | y Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw lt By GEORGE HEBERT jfew seconds later didn’t look any- The flying dise “was lots bigger |thing like saucer than an automobile,” and 15-year-|Looked Like Football old Bil Turrentine, of 410 West The boy ‘stuck to his football Fourteenth .Street, doesn’t under-|comparison, explaining that the stand why almost everybody inlobject was’ sortepf rounded, more Norfolk didn’t see it oval than disc-like, and that though | In fact, when he came to the|it wobbled in its northeastward jLedger-Dispatch with a photograph |flight it was traveling very rapidly, he had taken of the object, he about 600 miles an hour. jwanted to know why the newspa-| He guessed that the altitud® of Jpers hadn't already taken a pic-|the thing was about 5,000 feet, ture of it. “I thought yourf photo-|just below the clouds. In color it graphers were fast,” he told a re-|was “gray, almost black,” and porter. looked like a “burned crisp,” or ‘NORFOLK BOY AND PHOTO OF DISC—Bill Turrenti “15, (right) tells Ledger-Dispatch reporter George Herbert (left) of: the “lucky” circumstances which cnabled him to take the photograph at far ‘. ws right of a flying disc. However, the boy s: the object pictured here ec xe looked and moved more like a football, being rounded and oval, rather os than dise-like. Bill took this picture from the porch of his home a 410. West Fourteenth Steet between 11 o'clock and noon Tuesday, : (Baitor ote Although eee aa iro iced using an old camera, with the shutter set at 1/100th of a second. He |Ledger-Dispatch has had many ‘re-|glittered, he said, and seer i a : [ports of ‘ving iste and auncere io (tralling ‘dust. Neither it nor the| St the “flying football” shown here was followed by two smallfr Tecent days, no otlier person re-\two which followed made. any|M¢S, all moving at about 600 miles an hour and he guessed they wele lported secing the object which Tur- |sound. ” | about 5,000 feet high, just beloy the clouds. The photograph reprod rentine photographed.) Bill. said he wasn't very sur-| ed here is an enlargement made by Photo Craftsmen. In the foip- However, Bill said he had done prised | when, he saw the object,| ground of young ‘Turrentine’s picture is the porch rail of his home. a tas sel but “almost killed’ myself” getting ree ar Seat el RS a % shots of it with his camera, set at {enlargement made by Photo Crafts-| is set ‘ppeiede 1/100th of a second. jmen. | stood on his front porch and saw ; bie . the large gray object, “rocking|_ He called his 18-year-old sister,| Photo experts of this firm are Paeninwiue Mie todtbe Josephine, to come and look, but|convinced that the boy did a fine Papier aed nye warps ing Coe she didn’t believe ‘him,|iob with the old camera he was Me ad jst returned fom Sum-| AS the “flying football” passed ¥SIng. Having elostly, examined mer school class at Maury, he /over, Bill said he took three shots flaw was in the kind of film, which fald, and--with aii the talk about (Of i, but when he hurriedly «evel pavave* dant pring out enough] ‘flying saucers,” had gone out |oped the film, after legging it to petail. bhey, pointed out, however, | wil bis camera to sea if ne could (Olney Road for a vial of developer, sary ‘ |that this wasn’t really a flaw, in| seg anything. only one negative came out welllvicy of the fact that Bill's pheto- I don’t see-why they call them graph, with the comparison af-| flfing saucers,” he said enough for reproduction. he big| He showed a reporter a contact |forded by the front porch rail and owe I took a picture of and the two|print he had made himself, and|the trees, was certainly the best| little ones that came behind it a the picture reproduced here is anione taken since the “mysterious | 1 — tidiscs were first renorted