The article below was published in the daily newspaper Burlington Daily News, Burlington, Vermont, USA, on July 9, 1947.
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PORTSMOUTH, N. H. (UP) -- Thomas M. Dale, son of Gov. Charles M. Dale of New Hamp¬shire and president of Yankee Airways, Inc., today was among the saucer-spotters.
The former World War II flier said that he saw a "mysterious flying object - a long, thin metal thing going about 700 miles an hour” - while he was making an air trip from Laconia to Wolfboro early last night.
Dale said he saw the object when he looked down over Alton Bay He said it looked like a gray, solid metal material flying at 1,000 feet. His plane was flying at 2,800 feet when he spotted the projectile, he said.
