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PAGE TWO—A CLEVELAND CALL and POST SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1960
CHURCHWOMAN STICKS TO STORY: irs iz:
Saw ‘Flying Saucer’
_ Hover Over Home
| BY BOB WILLIAMS
Here's a tale of flying saucers, unidentified flying ebjects.
Pe been told since August 10, when a huge, odd-shaped object dropped from the
sky. to ‘hover without a sound, over a point near Quincy Ave. and E. 83 St.
‘Betore the startled ‘eyes ot || “There it hung, at crazy |
a man and a woman who had angie in the sky, no sound, no
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never met before, “the. object windows, no portholes or open-|
a ings that might have’ been win-
dows.
“IT HAD A LONG BLACK,
cone-like aperture that shot out
in front of the craft, or what-;
ever you call it. The thing stret-
ched out from a point about
suddenly whizzed into the sky
“with the speed of a missie’”’ to
disappear into the clouds.
Did it happen?
MISS MARY ELIZABETH
WILLIS, a sober-minded, ration-
al woman, according, to her
pastor and closest associates,
has been telling the tale since
that bright but cloudy afternoon
last Summer. and although she
has had pienty of attention...
“The, ad never believe me”
she said in a Call & Post ‘nter-
,iew,.
Miss Willis, 37, of 2478 E. 83
St., says she has toid her story
to pastor, neighbors, and re-
ported it officially to local Air
Force headquarters and the
Cleveiand Hopkins Airport.
“and I have told it to radio
stations, television stations, and.
newspapers, and they laugh at
me. Yet it happened, and I haye
a witness.”
IDENTIFIED as her. witness
is Andrew Mehivec, a RCA TV-
radio road technician who Miss,
Willis says visited her home on
“a routine call’ last August 10.
“? didn't know him and he
didn't know me. He came to re-
pair my comoination radiv-tele-|
_vision record-player, and that
was our lirst contact.”
“Had I seen it alone, I would
have forgotten it long ago”, ad- |,
mits Miss Willis.
But this radio technician walk- |
ed upon the step to my home,
suddenly cried out:
ted out onto the porch: as
stood staring over the tree top:
im our back yard,
“T ran off the. steps, and T
ram around to the rear of my
house to look at the thing. f
voulda’t believe what I was see-
ug.
‘three house down from mine to
“What's |
happening out here”, and I rush- |
he |
just beyond my back yard,
“Befort we could catch our.
breath. it suddenly was whisked
into the sky, swiftly and silent- |
lv, except for the slightest suc-
tion of aic in its wake.
“It was dark blue in color, As
it reached the heavy clouds 0. er: |
head the thing seemed to ease
into the clouds hover motontess
for another long minute, then
gradually dissipate itself Into
light blue that blended with the
sky itself.
“f DON'T CARE who doesn't
believe me, it happened, and
that man stood right there with
me staring up at it’, declares
Miss Willis.
“I would call {it a plane, be-
cause it had what could have)
been four huge motor-like struct- |
what }
of a"
ures in the front across
would be the wing span
conventional jet craft.
“But. there was no sound as,
it hung over the tree tops, and
no noise as it swung like a bul-
‘let into the sky.” ;
Did it happen?
“I. wouldn't care about it ex-
cept I think the United States
should know about such an aic-
craft, whether its foreign,
friendly or not, and what its
} mission was.
“Tf it belongs to us, we're
in very good shape, in a military
way, but’ if not, Lord help us”.
asserted. Miss Willis.
SAUCER?—Mary Elizabeth Willis explains and |
diaws rough picture of unidentified flying object (\sou-
cer) she spotted last August 10 for her pastor, Rev.
Luther F. Hill, of Second Mt. Sinai Baptist Church where
Miss Willis is a veteran choir member. Pastor's daugh-
tar, Gloria, 16, junior at John Adams High. School looks
on. * (Photo by Williams).
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MISS WILLIS says the radio!
technician has been interviewed
about the unidentified flying ob-
ject but has grown unwilling to
tell the tale’‘as long. as he could,
see nobody was willing to he-|
lieve it’.
Call & Post efforts to reach
him this week were futile. |
, “But I have continued trying!
Ny get someone to listen .to me)
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4.*Betieve me, this no play!
thing. He shouted to me, and I!
came outside and looked, and,
there it was.”
MISS WILLIS has been a seam-|
tress at Gotfried Co., for several
years and has worked steadily’
in Cleveland since 1943.
She owns her own home, does.
not drink or smoke, and attends |
church regularly. She has at-|
tended Second Mt. Sinai Baptist
Church and has been active
there for 14 years, sings in the
‘enior Choir. ;
The Rev. Luther Hill, pastor,
finds her the sober-minded, rat-
ional type woman she appears,
to be, even when telling her tale)
of the thing—the unidentified fly-
ing object that fell from the sky
and hovered in m‘dair over the
backyard of her home at 2478 E.
83 St. Pie
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