UFO News Article: “A Miracle in Georgia”

14 August 1879

(The Intelligencer, Anderson, South Carolina)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:

“William Langley, a cotton planter, of Gwinnett County [Georgia], was standing in a field on his farm. Around him were several men, a woman and three children, all breaking the soil for cotton. The sky was clear and the air quiet, there being about both a hint of sultriness. The children had just stopped work and thrown themselves, tired as tired could be, on top of a pile of guano sacks, when a peculiar roaring was heard in the field. The sound bore some resemblance to that of an approaching train, but as no railroads were near, the workers looked at one another in amazement. In a moment they saw a small column not larger in circumference than a barrel skim rapidly along the ground. The wind column or spout appeared to be filled with dust, and in the centre contained what looked like a ball of fire. The mother rushed towards the children, who crouched low in fright, but before she could reach them the pile of guano bags, children and all, were scattered right and left. In its course, always eccentric, the column struck a stump fairly from butt to roots and tore it from the ground, the wood splitting into three pieces, and dropping twenty or thirty yards away. Mr. Langley was sucked in as the whirling thing bolted by and thrown into a ploughed gully some distance away. In the next instant the strange visitor had gone, passing up over the tops of trees. It was seen plainly by the ladies at the Langley House, appearing to them like the smoke that [rises] up in circular volumes from the smoke stack of a locomotive.”

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2916744/strange_fireball_story_1879/

Wikipedia article: “Gwinnett County, Georgia”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwinnett_County,_Georgia

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