The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Salisbury Post, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA, page 1, on July 13, 1947.
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High Point, N. C., July 12 (AP) - The first flying saucer seen in this area was reported tonight to be a "huge red object travelling at a rapid rate of speed," by two veteran flyers of High Point.
Ed Lewis, editor of "Southern Wings," an aviation magazine, and Dick Milspas, a member of the staff of the publication, sighted the flying "ball of fire" about ten miles south of High Point this afternoon.
The two men stated they were flying into High Point at an altitude of approximately 1,000 feet when they noticed a glare to the left of their plane. Glancing to their side they said they saw a huge object, round on top with a large 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 periodical bursts of fire came from underneath [?] from some sort of [?]," Lewis said. This was at 7:30 Saturday afternoon.
Lewis 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 travelling, he said, indicated that it was headed in the direction of Winston-Salem on a route leading between High Point and Thomasville, he added.
