Louisville (KY)
TIMES
14 April 1945
A Meteor?
To the Editor of The Times:
What did I see? Tuesday night
at eleven o'clock I walked out on
my front porch. Straight ahead,
high in the sky, I beheld the most
beautiful light I had ever seen.
It was straight east and looked as
if it were directly over Fisher-
ville, three miles east.
It seemed to be the size of a
large cantaloupe and glowed and
receded in brilliance like a heart
throb. It seemed to be coming
straight at our front porch and
I suggested to my wife we had
better get aside because if it
missed the barn I felt sure it
would strike the house head on.
It cast a light downward, like a
lamp shade over the earth. First.
we thought of a plane with some
new signaling device, but there
was just brilliant light and no
flame.
After about ten minutes It
Iwent out like a snuffed candle.
I found one man in Jefferson-
town who had seen it and he
thinks it was a meteor. No, Mr.
Editor, don't drink a drop. I'm
bone dry. JAMES L. HENDRY.
Jeffersontown, Ky.
3 August 1945
THE JEFFERSONIAN, JEFFERSONTOWN (JEFFERSON COUNTY
KENTUCKY
Sketch of Jap Balloon and Bombs
BAG-34 ft.
IN DIAMETER
FLASH
BOMB TO
BAG
DESTROY
AFTER
DESCENT
Nashville (TN)
BANNER
22 Sep 1945
Page 1
Unidentified Flight
Blamed for Miami
Crash; Two Killed
Air
Miami, Fla., Sept. 22-(0)-Capt.
D.-L-Day, commanding-officer of
the Melbourne, Fla., Naval
Base, today blamed an unidentified
formation that swung into the path
of a five ship flight from Mel-
bourne-for the crash-last-night-of
two. Navy Tighter planes.
Day Issued a statement today
after interrogating the flight lead-
er of the ill-fated formation. He
did not reveal the name of the
flight commander.
Day said the formation was ca
a routine flight from Melbourne to
Miamt. It was scheduled to return
via Civil Airways. As it approached
the end of its south-bound journey,
another formation of night-flying
aircraft swung into its path,
The flight leader is quoted as
saying that he ordered his forma-
tion to break up and rendezvous
over Biscayne Bay It was during
unbreaking up procedure, Day
said that two of the FOES's locked
wings, dived a half-turn, and crashed
Into the business section of the city.
killing both pilots
AS Dav said the flight leader had
called for the breakup because
he was not familiar with the Miami
area, and the glare from city lights
might hinder the pilots vision.
✓ Day set the loss of two planes
at-approximately $62.000 each.
Names of the two victims were
known but not revealed pending
notification of next of kin Day
sald.
Meanwhile elty, officials: estimat-
adi the loss of a civilian, business
and-a-Navy-operated warehouse at
approximately $75.000
MECHANISM WHICH
RELEASES
BALLAST BAGS
2 'AND BOMBS IN
SEQUENCE
BOMB WHICH)
DESTROYS
WHOLE DEVICE
ON CONTACT
WITH GROUND
INCENDIARY
BOMB
ANTI
PERSONNEL
BOMB
BALLOON'S
MECHANICAL
"BRAIN"
Artist's satch of the balloon, with bombs, which the Japanese are
Launching from their home islands against continental United States.