MYSTERIOUS OBJECT.
SUPPOSED TO BE AN AIRSHIP. (By Tolecrapli.—Special Corresnondent.) Auckland, March 17. A Remuera resident reports having observed what he took to bo an airship in ,the dusk of Friday evening. Mr. James Hemphill, who resides with his son-in-lnw. in Brighton Road, Remuera, states that 011 Friday, at about 6 p.m., ho was on the balcony of his house. His attention was attracted by an object in the sky towards 'l'iri, due north from where ho* was watching. Ho observed its movements for a full half hour. The mysterious object, which Sir. Hemphill is convinced was an airship, Alternately rising and falling. Ho watched it through a pail- of glasses, the supposed airship being easily visible except when hidden for a few minutes behind a cloud. Mr. Hemphill, who says ho was unable to make out any details of the_ aerial craft, called his grandson to watch it too. When he returned subsequent to fetching somo other people to witness tho unusual sight, the object had disappeared. ■
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1701, 18 March 1913, Page 4
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168MYSTERIOUS OBJECT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1701, 18 March 1913, Page 4
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