Waves / 1948 · Washington, Illinois and Missouri

The giant birds of 1948

In January 1948 a Chehalis woman watched a man with long silver wings hover over her barn. In April a bird the size of a small aeroplane was reported from farms and highways around Alton and St Louis, by a retired colonel among others, for three weeks. Then it was gone.

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January 6, 1948April 1948