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11-20-1966
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4 More Say They Saw Red-Eyed 'Whatever'Pacific Stars and Stripes Point Pleasant, W. Va. (UPI) - The mystery of the flying "whatever it was" continued here Thursday. Four more persons reported seeing a huge, bird-like creature with red eyes, and in Doddridge County, more than 100 miles to the north, a farmer feels his german shepher was "dognapped" by the thing. Mason County Sheriff George Johnson said he does not discount the stories of Steve Mallette and Roger Scarberry and their wives. All four swear they saw the creature three times late Tuesday and early Wednesday, near an abandoned power plant five miles north of here. Raymond Wamsley and his wife, and Marcella Bennett and Ricky Thomas told Johnson they saw it, too, in the same general area. Johnson said he feels whatever everyone saw was nothing more than a "freak shitepoke," a large bird of the heron family. The shitepoke, or shag as it is sometimes known, is the smallest heron in the western hemisphere. No one, however, could explain how a shag or similar large bird could fly 100 m.p.h. as Scarberry and Mallette said the thing they saw did. All four said they would take lie detector tests. At a farm in Doddridge County near the Harrison County community of Salem, contractor Newell Partridge said he saw something with eyes like "red reflectors" in a meadow near his home. He sighted this "thing" about 90 minutes before the Point Pleasant incident. Partridge said his television set began acting up, "sounding like a generator," and his $350 german shepherd, Bandit, started "carrying on something terrible." After the dog had howled for some time, Partridge said, he opened the door and shone a flashlight into the field where the "reflectors" were seen. The dog's hair stood straight up, Partridge said, and the animal then went after the reflectors. The dog never returned, and _____ it was found. Partridge _____ wife said the dog had never stayed _____ from home for more than 15 minutes in the last three years. |
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