8 October 1973
(Hattiesburg American, Mississippi)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“Beat Two Constable Charlie Delk says he chased a UFO for 30 miles Sunday night [7
October 1973], lost it when his car mysteriously went
dead, and caught up with the glowing object when his car started up again after
a 15 minute wait. ‘I’m 45 years old and I’ve never seen anything like it,’ Delk
said today. ‘It wasn’t any play toy.’
Delk was sent out to 127
Wilson Drive in Petal to investigate after local
authorities had received numerous calls from scared residents af the area.
‘Those
people of Wilson Drive
were [mightily] disturbed,’ Delk said. ‘I figured they were
seeing things. When I got there, I spotted it up over Petal High School.
It looked like an old-timey top with yellow lights all the way around it.
‘I
followed it up to the Jones-Forrest
County line…four lights
were flashing and it was making noise…then it went back north. I followed it
five miles and it went toward the Tallahalla swamp. I was with it for three
miles and got pretty close to it and then my car died.
‘It was
just like someone had cut the motor off. In about 15 minutes, my car started up
again like nothing was wrong. Jones and Forrest County
sheriff’s deputies tried to contact me but everything was dead during that
time.’
Delk said
he continued to follow the UFO across Highway 29, through Ovett and past some
kind of swamp. ‘Then it just did a double flip and disappeared from sight,’ he
said.”
My comment:
This is a very interesting article.
1) The UFO apparently caused electromagnetic (EM) interference with the
motor of the car and the car radio. Time and again people talk about how they
experienced EM effects while they were in close proximity to a UFO.
2) The unknown object manoeuvred over a high school. UFOs are often
sighted over schools/universities.
3) The UFO flew close to/over two swamp areas. UFOs have often been seen
flying over/hovering over swamps.
Wikipedia article: “Petal, Mississippi”:
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