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Flying saucers are passe.
Now people in Bristol are see-
ing “long, cigar-shaped ob-
ject” flashing across the sky.
But Bristolians were ‘not the
only spectators of the strange
craft yesterday evening.
The flaming object was re-
ported sighted at Kingsport,
Christiansburg and Roanoke
and three at Pulaski.
Rex Rainey, 1805 State Street,
reported that he saw a “whit-
ish, glistening mass, long and
cylindrical like a big cigar,”
flying from east to west about
7315 yesterday. He said he
sighted the “cigar” flying very
rapidly over Virginia Heights
and got out his binoculars to
look at it.
An _ unidentified caller
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. “It
iin’t look like an airplane,”
She said, “only like white smoke,
If was just a’ streak and almost
ORE of sight it was so high.”
Another local ‘woman reported
that she
A traffic control
Cities Airport, who asked that
his name be withheld, said that
the strange craft had not been
seen at the airport although
they had had inquires on the
“cigar-streak,”
He said he had checked with
the Atlanta Air Route traffic
control center after receiving
inquiries but they reported no
lowledge of any jet aircraft in
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
pe about all a person on the.
| 8round could see.”
The controlman said that the
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Pulaski radio reported two seen
there. One about 4 P. m., and
the other an hour later. _ He
Said that Pulaski also had a pi-
lot's report of the “streak” trav.
cling northeast at an altitude of
about 30,000 feet,
no information on the strange _
_craft,
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