MORE MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 583, 11 August 1909, Page 8

MORE MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS.

FIRE BALLOONS. . (By .Telegraph,-8p«clal CorreupondenU Auckland, August 10. Auckland has now developed an attack of "aerolitis," as tie' seeing of-, mysterious lights is .formed, and. many residents of Mounit Roskill district last night were startled by the. appearance of two , hrightly-iEnimma-ted bodies overhead. The objects soared upwards,.and then drifted over OneJmnga to-wards-Otahuhu, burning rod, blue, and green lights alternately.- Various conjec'tpics were indulged.in,...but. inquiries made it clear -fcba.t this was no-tHiing more formidable than fire balloons, • which have been selling rather freely lately, particularly those of the prismatic class, which bum blue, green, and red lights alternately., Later in. the evening, people gathered on the wharves and gazed, at tie planet Mars, " only 40,000,000 miles away.' Many .of them were confident tihat at last they had discovered the mysterious "airship," and they succeeded in converting many of their friendß into this belief.. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ' : . Palmorston North, August 10. Great excitement was caused at -Stoney Creek and 'other localities, near here by the appearance of an "airship," which travelled westward over ■ the "ranges- at twenty-five miles an hour. A schoolmaster and numerous residents all give circumstantial accounts of the mar.'ellous phenomenon which turns out to-night to have been a fire balloon, sent up .by two settlors; - ' " »

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' .-■• Waihl, August .10. Last night between seven and nine o'clock all. residents out of 'doors saw 'mysterious lights, in ther.vioinity iof thei'towji4hip.- ,i At'', 'first two. lights.. Were visible,- but , later'-four :were. distinctly seen .. travelling together. Tlioir progress was flow,'.it 'taking them twenty, minutes to travel-about four' miles,' The incident is the talk ,of the town.