A wire service. Its dispatches carried strange local stories far beyond where they began. In 1944 United Press sent Dr. D. J. G. MacSweeney to Great Leighs, where he judged the witch stone of Scrapfaggot Green a hoax. In 1948 it carried the Macomb mystery fires nationwide. May 23, 1950. A United Press dispatch from Flagstaff reported an astronomer's disc sighting. Its wire also spread the Houston Batman across Texas in 1953, and a United Press photograph from 1965 showed two white lights over Buenos Aires.
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