Another U.F.O. report is received

Another report has been received of an “Unidentified Flying Object” seen in the sky over Merritt this week and it would be interesting to know if anyone else saw it land what it looked like to them.

Mrs. A. Palenaude of 1913 Parker Drive informed the Herald that she had seen a bright colored object in the sky at about 8 or 8:30 p.m. which took less than a couple of minutes to move across from horizon to horizon in an east to west direction, it was travelling so fast, she said.

Although it was travelling at a high rate of speed, she said she could see it quite clearly and she described it as bright colored long and round with orange colored vapour, like fire coming out the back end and she could see fins on the back end. She guessed it was driven by fuel of some type though it didn't make sound "perhaps because it was too high for me to hear it.”

She said she had run quickly to see if some of her neighbours were out in their yard so she could tell them but by the time she did, the object was going down into the western horizon and wasn't as clearly defined, though there was a car passing by on the street at the same time, Mrs. Patenaude said, and she was sure the occupants had seen the strange object too.

Mrs. Patenaude said this was the first time she had ever seen anything like this and was totally convinced it was a UFO. "It certainly wasn't a star as there wasn't a star in the sky at the time" she added emphatically.