Weather Balloon or 'disk-happy?'


�FLYING SAUCER� FOUND 
AT THOMPSONVILLE PART 
OF A WEATHER BALLOON�

THOMPSONVILLE, Conn., July 10 � Despite the nationwide hysteria anent �flying saucers�, residents of the Wallop District of Enfield are not disk-happy, it can be reported.

While cultivating a tobacco field yesterday on the Edward Lynch farm, Edward Lynch, Jr., and Edward Rochette found part of an object which, when inflated and in flight would closely resemble the alleged �saucers.�

From experience gleaned while in naval intelligence during the war, Rochette immediately identified the object as the upper half of a 50-inch weather observation balloon of the type in use at army weather observation posts. Rochette theorized that the balloon had exploded at a high altitude.

The heavy rubber bears gold lettering near the stem read: �Darex HDE81, Chem. Co., Cambridge, Mass.� The makers name is blurred. The stem was securely tied with elastic bands. While the rubber is dark grey in appearance, Rochette said it would take on a silvery cast if inflated.
 

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