The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Morning star, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA, July 13, 1947.
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Associated Press. -- High Point, North Carolina, 12 July.
Two pilots flying in a plane at 1000 feet about 10 miles south of High Point at 7:20 pm on the 11 July saw a "ball of fire,"..."a huge red object traveling at a rapid rate of speed,....they noticed a glare to the left of their plane. Glancing to their side they saw a huge object, round on top with a black band through the center, flying in a northerly direction at a rapid rate of speed.
"The bottom part of the object was revolving, and periodically a burst of fire came from underneath as if from some sort of exhaust."
...[the pilot] said when he noticed the object he swung his small, two-place plane to the left in the direction of the 'thing' but that before he had travelled far in that direction, the object passed him and disappeared in a northern direction. The path it was traveling, he said, indicated that it was headed in the direction of Winston-Salem on a route leading between High Point and Thomasville, he added.
