A MYSTERIOUS LIGHT AT SEA.
WAS IT A SEAPLANE? Mr. A. J. Goodwin, of Opunakc, writes to the editor:—l wish to let you know that I saw a very mysterioua light out at sea, due west, this evening, between 0.20 and <J. , 25 o'clock. We had just nn= ished milking, and were putting the last lot of cows out of the shed, when my son ames drew my attention to a light out at sea. It could be seen very distinctly showing a bright i'■''■>. When We Saw it first it seemed t. -.tationary,vbut all at once it sceim-n to make a dari forward and was soon travelling at a terrific speed along the top'of the water in a northerly direction. It seemed to "be to he travelling the line which tlu> New Plymouth-Wellington '. steamers travel, or it may have been further out west. We were only able . to follow it for four minutes, as a box- > thorn, lieilgc and the sandhills prevent- . Ed us from following it any further, but in the short time that Sve did see it it ! must have travelled many miles, as I ; consider it, was travelling at the rate of : from 50 to 'IOO miles an hour. What ■ the light was I am at a lojjs to know, . : mless -a seaplane, which I firmly believo it was.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1918, Page 5
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223A MYSTERIOUS LIGHT AT SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1918, Page 5
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