The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Morning Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, page 6, on July 9, 1947.
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Tupelo, Miss., July 8 (AP) - J. H. Minga, Tupelo garageman and private airplane pilot, says he saw a flying saucer while piloting his plane over Red Bay, Ala., early today and added that so far as he is concerned "one time is enough."
The fast traveling disk came very near to colliding with his plane, Minga said, and "only the fact that I had my 4-year-old daughter with me kept me from taking to my parachute."
"I had been reading about these flying saucers," he said, "but never expected to see one. I was flying at about 500 feet over Red Bay, Ala., when I saw the disk directly in front of the plane. The disk seemed to dip toward the plane at one point despite the fact that I dived toward the ground to avoid the whirling, pancake shaped object which glistened like silver."
Minga said his plane was traveling at about 95 miles an hour when he first saw the disk and he was traveling about 120 miles an hour when the "saucer" suddenly sailed away in front of him and vanished from sight.
