“Bright light at Russell Field –
Observer, radar spot Rome UFO”,
3 April 1975 (Rome News-Tribune, Georgia)
Rome News-Tribune reports on the 2 April 1975 (5:45 a.m.) (not October 1975 as mentioned in the 16 May 1977 article) Rome, Georgia UFO sighting by weather observer Juanita Lester:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gSUxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GUQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2407,331552
The spherical shaped, basketball-sized UFO hovered over a weather vane at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport for about ten minutes.
Mrs. Lester also recounts a UFO incident she witnessed over the airport around 1960.
Map of Georgia, U.S.
(nationsonline.org image)