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Statement taken from Leland Sammons

My name is Leland Sammons and I live on a farm miles west of ekton
and 1 mile north, off WS 2h. ‘ + se

On February 18 at about 5 P.M., I was standing near my hog=pen about 100'
east of my house, when I heard the pheasants raising a disturbance and the
chickens all rushed to the chicken-house. I looked around toward the house
to see what was causing it and saw something hovering just above the house.

I ran towardthe house, am it then lowered over the north end of the house
and settled toward the ground. Iwas then very near it, approximately 6'
when it stopped about level with my face, and just wobbled around for an
instant, fire belching out of it and sucking back in. The thing was about

4" long, shaped something like a fumnel. There was a pipe sticking out the
back of it, and once as it wobbled around, the pipe was sticking right at

my belly. Suddenly there was a lot of sparks showered from it, and the fire
increased as if a fuse might have lighted, and it took off in a north-westerly
direction very fast, gaining altituie as it went. My wife heard it leave and
ran out where I stood, and we watched it go, leaving a trail of smoke all the
way. Suidenly there was a great cloud of smoke in the sky, not more than

40 seconds after it left my yard, and in a few seconds or more, we heard an
explosion. I then stepped off from my house to where it had been, and it

was five steps. ‘es, it was hot, I could feel the hear from it. Had I not
been washing my car prior to the occurrence, wetting the ground, there would
have been a bare spot in the yard where the thing started up because there was
a great rush of fire from it when it left. It must have been quite high when

Kenneth “ays, son of Floyd Hays, 1 miles east of Norton on US 36, at the Jct,
of K-60, south side of highway; At about 5 to 5:30 P.M., not sure of time,

was riding his horse in a pasture, when he heard something queer in the sky.
Looking up to the south-west, he saw what appeared to him to be a rocket

just like he had seen du‘ing the war in Europe. It startled him, and he”
jumped off the horse. He then remounted, watched its course, almost on

a level but losing altitude a little, and it then exploded with a big cloud

of smoke, apparently over Norton, from where he was, south of Prairie View,

He rode on toward home a ways, when suddenly the sound and jar of the explosion
reached him. Mrs, Hays was home in the house, when she heard and felt something
like a truck might have struck the house. She ran out of the house and then
first saw the huge cloud of smoke. About 0 minutes later, a part of the

smoke clow dirfted directly over their house, and went on east over
Phillipsburg. it et! Seep ve
Ralph New, postmaster at Norcatur, stated that at about 4:50 P.M, he was
standing just inside the front window of the postoffice in Norcatur, when

he observed a blinding flash as if someone had taken a flashlight picture.

He coul…