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Show sihip,. it rans. SEE! By PEOPLE OF OGDEN Ogden residents decline to believe-that believe-that they saw the fascinating Venus, belle of the constellations, instead of an airship. Their- statements are made regard-leas regard-leas and notwithstanding the learned discourse, in the nature of an explanation, explana-tion, given out by an astronomical expert a tSalt Lake City last night. The expert insists that Ogdenites are ' deceiving themselves it's a star instead in-stead of an airship they see. "Oh, I guess not a star," said Sheriff Herbert Peterson.' "Venus may bo housekeeping up in that general direction, di-rection, but it's a cinch that it was an airship and not a star that I saw." "Maybe the professional gentleman who seeks to explain the twin lights in the southwest is seeing Venus," said Judge George S. Barker, "but I am not Venus is somewhat of a rambler, ram-bler, as was evidenced in her success, ful chase of Adonis, but she doesn't make as much noise as the strange visitor I saw and heard the other evening." eve-ning." "The 'doc' might tell that to the policeman on the corner at the Fed-oral Fed-oral building in Salt Lake City or wherever he does his astronomical work," said J. w. Bllingson, traffic manager of the O. S. L., "but he is unable to convince me. If Venus is dodging clouds during these unusual times and otherwise flitting about, she needs to oil her joints or close her muffler. I do not profess to know a whole lot about the habits of the planets, but I do know the sound of a motor engine." And so assert others. They refuse to accept the explanation given out by the astronomer, except In so far as it pertains absolutely and strictly to Venus. They do not deny that Venus does all that is claimed for her and is galloping and gamboling around in the firmament to beat the band these pretty nights. And So is some strange aeroplane, they say. They also say they know it's an aeroplane. The argument is oVor. An employe of the Utah ceroal, factory fac-tory claims the bright light is from ' a searchlight on top of one of the , company's elevators. |