The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Tulsa Daily World, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, page 20, on July 8, 1947.
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By The Associated Press
Oklahomans claimed Monday to have seen more "flying saucers" - some of them with tails of fire.
Mrs. John Alexander, McAlester, said she was lying on a divan in her home Monday afternoon when she noticed a flash of light outside. Running outdoors, she said she saw an object "resembling a dinner plate, with a tail of fire."
Ronnie Vanwey, 16, Ponca City, declared a "glowing object" passed over his hometown nine months ago. The youth, son of a fireman, said he saw the object last October "in the north traveling at a great rate of speed but without noise."
A saucer-shaped object, bright like aluminum, darting in a south-easterly direction high over Tinker field late Sunday afternoon was described by W. E. Marshall, Oklahoma City.
At Enid, Ed Herbig reported he saw one of the saucers, which "looked very much like an aluminum pancake," flying south over the east edge of the city at an altitude from 10,000 to 12,000 feet.
"It was going at a terrifying rate of speed," he said.
Several Anadarko persons gave varying descriptions of what they believed to be a flying saucer zooming westward over the town late Sunday.
J. L. Armistead said the object resembled a balloon while Charlie Hill said it appeared to be a plate or saucer, tinged slightly red by the rays of the sun. Mr. and Mrs. Barnie Smith said the object was round and black and moved at great speed.
Two Bartlesville men, John Phillips Jr., of Phillips petroleum aviation department and Henry Barbrick, reported sighting discs Sunday afternoon while flying at 10,000 to 12,000 feet near the Kansas-Colorado line. Phillips said he saw about nine discs and that they appeared to be metallic saucers, flying with the front edges tilted.
