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  Dayton Daily News clipping, "Companion to Flying Saucer," 1948 Scan

  from The Illinois and Missouri Giant Bird Wave of 1948 (1948)

  THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS Companion To Flying Saucer, "Monster Bird" 11. PUIE. PUI. the assistant on all subjects 11:30 am, no, late afternoon white people hask paling four - five periods of 11:30, 11:30 For New York, NY and the New Jersey City area, please visit the New York Times website at www.nytime…

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  The Evening News, Harrisburg, 9 April 1948: UP story on the monster bird Scan

  The Evening News (UP) ·from The St. Louis and Alton Giant Bird Flap (Thunderbird Sightings), 1948 (1948)

  "Monster Bird" Reported In Flying Saucer Area By United Press BELVIDERE, Ill., April 9. — A farmer and a truck driver reported today that they had seen a bird "bigger than an airplane." They believed it might be a visitor from another planet. The giant bird was reported by Robert Price and Veryl Bab…

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  Belvidere Daily Republican, 15 April 1948: Bill Gesell's glider-tow explanation Scan

  Belvidere Daily Republican ·from The St. Louis and Alton Giant Bird Flap (Thunderbird Sightings), 1948 (1948)

  GESELL SOLVES BIRD MYSTERY OR DOES HE? A solution to the "bird as big as an airplane" mystery was offered today by Bill Gesell. "It was an airplane towing a glider," Gesell said. "I saw it myself." Gesell operates a farm two miles north of Belvidere on state route 76. He said he was working in a fie…

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  Dayton Daily News, 11 April 1948 Scan

  Dayton Daily News ·from The St. Louis and Alton Giant Bird Flap (Thunderbird Sightings), 1948 (1948)

  Companion To Flying Saucer, "Monster Bird" BY PAUL DIX ST. LOUIS, April 10.—(UF) A retired Air Force colonel and a 12-year-old boy tonight locked up the report by two Beloved, BL, residents of spotting a "monster bird." It was either the same mysterious bird of gigantic size they saw or one just lik…

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  Freeport Journal-Standard, 7 April 1948: Boone County Farmer Reports Seeing Bird As Big As Airplane Scan

  Freeport Journal-Standard ·from The St. Louis and Alton Giant Bird Flap (Thunderbird Sightings), 1948 (1948)

  Boone County Farmer Reports Seeing Bird As Big As Airplane Caledonia, Ill., April 7.—A Boone county farmer saw "a bird as big as an airplane" yesterday. The farmer, Robert Price, said he saw it. He couldn't have been mistaken. "I knew it was a bird," Price said. "The wings flapped, the neck was outs…