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Show Weird Object Puzzles Airmen Revives Discussion Of 'Flying Saucers' HAMLET, N. C. A mysterious Obiect m o v i n sr southwestward through the sky had scores of Carolinians Caro-linians agog. . The object, on which descriptions varied, first was spotted at Fay-etteville, Fay-etteville, about 50 miles northeast of Hamlet, at about 4:30 p.m. It was sighted again over Hamlet at about 4:45 p.m and reports came from Greenwood, S. C, that the mysterious object had passed westward west-ward over that city shortly after 5 p.m. Greenwood is about 180 miles southwest of Hamlet. Scores of residents In all three cities reported sighting the object. And at Hamlet and Greenwood it was chased for several minutes by foui; pilots. Hamlet observers said it resembled resem-bled a balloon or blimp, and appeared ap-peared to be about 20 or 30 feet in diameter.'-At Fayetteville, one observer ob-server said it looked more like a vertical neon lighting tube. At Greenwood, two pilots said It appeared to be a streak of smoke about 15 or 20 feet long coming from an unseen plane. But the object, ob-ject, the pilots said, retained its shape during the 10 or 15 minutes that they followed it. Ground observers all said that it drifted mto the direction of the setting set-ting sun. But the four pilots who chased it at Hamlet and Greenwood said they were unable to gain on it in their light planes. At Greenwood, Joe Poole, one of the pilots, reported that the thing appeared to be flying at about 6,000 feet. He and W. C. Ashley rose to jbout 3.000 feet in their light plan in trying to overtake it. |