MYSTERIOUS AERIAL VISITOR

SEEN IN CHRISTCHURCH

What appeared to be an aeroplane With lights was seen by several, people in the city on Tuesday evening between 7 o'clock and 7.15 (says the Press). It seemed to be travelling in a, south-westerly direction, at a rate estimated at something like 20 miles an hour, and was at a considerable height. To some at first sight it looked like a planet, but its fairly lapid movement dispelled that idea. Others surmised that it was a fire balloon, but to other observers it looked like an aircraft under control It seemed to pass along the edge of a oark bank of cloud in the southern sky, and was finally lost to sight. A telephone enquiry elicited from the Aviation School at Sockburn the mtormation that it was not one of the machines from the school; it was also stated that none of the machines is used at night time for flights