TURANGI FLYING SAUCER

Taupo Times, Volume 11, Issue 74, 17 June 1953, Page 3

TURANGI FLYING SAUCER

SEEN BY ANGLER The first flying saucer to be reported in the Taupo Country was seen afoout five minutes to six on the evening of Saturday, May 30th, It was seeii by a Tokoroa angler (unnamed by irequest) who was fishing near Turangi, at the southem end of the Lake. In conversation with the South Waikato News, the angler stated that he watched a large silvery hall, with a fiaming tail, streak aeross fche twilight sky fcrom east to west, disappearing behind a large pine tree. He helieved that when it disappeared it must bave turned in a northerly direetion. "Usually when youhe fishing youVe looking at the water, not the sky," he said, *'But I was just going to move down-stream a hit, & as I got started, th is flaming iball cau ght my eye.r* He was eertain it was no optieal illus*on. He saw it distinctly and watched it for several seconds. The following day, when he was fishing again, a small white flake, rather resembliiig a fmgment of tissue paper, i floated down and clung to his rod,j gradually disintegrating to ash. Lat-j er, havmg read other eye-witness ac- 1 eounts of ''flying saucers" and the comments made ahout a white deposit dropped by them, he eoneluded that ihe white substance must be attributable to the sam-e cause.