THERE WERE BALLOONS, AND TALES OF FLYING DISCS

13 June 1950 (an oldie!) / July 6, 1996
Source: Courier Express p. 24
There were quite a few folks who saw what looked like flying discs high in the sun-filled sky Sunday. There were quite a few large-sized balloons up there, too.

The problem: Were the sky objects flying discs or were they balloons or were they just hallucinations?

About 5 p.m. Sunday, 12 North Buffalo residents happened to be sky-gazing. Each of them reported a mysterious object way up in the blue.

One said it was disc-shaped and shiny. Another said it looked like a bright light. Still another said it resembled a silver disc.

But before you pass judgment on flying discs, hear this. Sometime Sunday afternoon, Sydney Chiswell, 76 Charden Dr., Cheektowaga, visited Buffalo Zoo with his five-year-old daughter, Judy. He bought Judy a "large-size" silver balloon filed with helium.

The Chiswells then journeyed to Fort Erie, Ont., to visit relatives, taking the balloon with them. Shortly before 5 p.m. Judy lost her clutch on the balloon and up and up it went, the wind skimming it toward Buffalo, across the river.

About the same time, eight target-type balloons which measure about five feet in circumference, broke from their moorings above the Flying E Ranch in South Transit Rd. near Lockport, where they'd been strung up to advertise a horse show, rodeo and barn dance.

Each of the balloons was well-inflated with helium. Each was shiny in the sun. Each took off in the general direction.

So it all boils down to this: Those mysterious objects sighted Sunday by a dozen North Buffalonians could have been flying discs and they could have been balloons. And they could have been hallucinations.

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