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formed maneuvers, which automatically ruled out convenient natural explanations. Morgan and Tillinghast were never given the promised model to back up their earlier claims. Like so many of the modern UFO Contactees, they were used. “Three huge lights of almost uniform dimensions’? appeared over Huntington, West Virginia, early on the morning of Friday, December 31, 1909. A farmer named Joseph Green thought they had fallen on his land, but a thorough search failed to find any trace of them. Then at 9 A.M. on Wednesday, January 12, 1910, thousands of people saw an unusual flying machine passing directly over Chattanooga, Tennessee, at great altitude. The chugging of anengine was clearly heard. That same night an airship passed over Huntsville, Alabama, traveling at high speed, according to the reports. At 11 A.M. the next morning ‘‘a white dirigible balloon’’ reappeared over Chattanooga, heading from south to north. It was again seen the following day at noon, this time coming from the north and heading southeast. The most interesting sightings of 1910 took place directly over New York City that summer. They are significant because of their similarity to the sightings of Scandinavia in 1934, which we will discuss shortly. At 8:45 P.M. on Tuesday, August 30, 1910, ‘‘a long black object” flew low over the island of Manhattan, accompanied by the sound of an engine. Hundreds of people stared upward in amazement as the object approached Madison Square and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany tower. The New York Tribune (August 31, 1910) reports: The vague bulk, as it came into nearer view, took on the semblance of a biplane. It swung past the tower, then tumed and described one graceful circle after another around the illuminated structure, its outlines standing out clear in the lights from many windows. It flew off toward the Flatiron Building and then returned again to Madison Square, where it circled again, swooping down so low that “‘it seemed to brush the top of the trees.” The next night (Wednesday) it came back again at 9 P.M. and performed the same maneuvers, circling Madison Square in view of hundreds of people lounging in the park on that warm summer night. “Persons who saw the flying mystery differ as to the number of lights it Flexible Phantoms of the Sky / 107 The 1910 Sightings