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“Veryl Babb”

Stories2

The St. Louis and Alton Giant Bird Flap (Thunderbird Sightings), 1948
April 1948 · Alton, Illinois, and greater St. Louis, Missouri, with a separate cluster around Caledonia and Freeport, northern Illinois
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
28Thinly documented
The Illinois and Missouri Giant Bird Wave of 1948
April 1948 · Alton, Belvidere, Caledonia and Freeport, Illinois, and the St. Louis area, Missouri
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
33Partially documented

Documents1

  • box Incident Summaries 101-172 Official release
    U.S. Department of War· 178 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 75 …The Belvidere report quoted a Robert Price and Veryl Babb as saying the bird was "bigger than an airplane" and…