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i^^m mm c% r* o \ ft: On 18 January 1949* Mr# Paul Brannon, Editor, Paris and Carlisle, Kentucky News Papers, Carlisle, Ky#, *.vas interviewed and stated substantially the same as the attached news story. AGENTS NOTK: Informant has a local reputation as a "publicity hound1] On IS January 1%9, Mr. Stewart Haggard jr., brother of Agent J.D. Hazard, 10 th. CIC Det#, Was interviewed and stated in substance: I saw the "thing in the sky" as out- lined in theattached news story and it was unquestionably a very high flying air craft xvith concomitant varor trail. Traffic Toll (City off Lexington) Yesterday ______________Deaths 0; Injuries 1 1949 To Date___ ______Deaths 0; Injuries 18 Same Date 194S ________Deaths 1; Injuries 4 (Outside City Limits) Yesterday _______________Deaths 0: Injuries 0 1949 To Date ____________Deaths 0; Injuries 9 Same Date 1948 __________Deaths 2; Injuries 12 THE LEXING'' Twelve Pages Today Lexington, Ky., Tuesday t ''THING IN SKY? SHOWS UP IN PHOTOGRAPHThe "thing in the sky" that Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brannon of Pans and others saw Sunday afternoon over Bourbon county is shown here in a snapshot. The picture was taken by Mrs. Brannon a few minutes after they first observed the object streaking out from behind the small cloud at the right. W. V. Saunders, who lives eight miles from Lexington on the Richmond road, said yesterday he saw a small plane, emit- ting smoke, going toward Winchester about 4:30 p.m. Sunday. He said the fiery-colored smoke trail remained visible ''several minutes. The Brannons, however, said it didn''t look like a plane and they couldn''t hear it. (The two parallel dark lines in lower part cf picture are telephone wires.) //CHARLES J. FLETCHER, Special Agent, 109th CIC Detachment, Ixington, Ky. Sub-Office
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