Cincinnati Post, August 21, 1947, Front Page
Green Monster, "Flying Saucer" Make Forced Landings in Heat
Bug is Puzzle But Weather Bureau Solves Disc "Mystery"
It wasn't the heat. Nor the humidity. Nor pure eyesight.
These things actually happened in Greater Cincinnati Thursday the 18th day of the current warm spell:
ONE: A Mt. Washington man fed tree leaves to a "green" monster.
TWO: Wolfangle road residents thought they had captured a "flying saucer" (Remember them?) and notified military authorities.
What did no see?
Well, the "monster" was real--all six inches, 10 horns and 12 legs of it. Green of body, it has a series of brown and yellow stripes.
Hollace Baldwin, of 6417 Glade avenue, discovered it on a gum tree while visiting relatives in ????
But Mr. Baldwin doesn't know what it is or what to do with it.
The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History might have answered the first question, but it's "on vacation," as is Mr. Baldwin.
Query No. 2 was answered with a suggestion that "Mr. Monster" might be used as bair for another monster, Mr. Post, the huge catfish, still at large in Lunken lakes. (There's a reward posted for Mr. Post.)
The "saucer" that turned out to be a weather balloon was noted by Mrs. Olga Matthews, 56, in a corn field near her home on Wolfangle road, near Forestville.
It is a kit-like affair, triangular in shape and about three feet at its greatest length. Attached to it is a coating of tinfoil and a balloon.
A son-in-law notified Army Engineers and two men called for the device.
Mystery faded, though, when Weather Bureau officials were told of the balloon and tinfoil. "That's one of our observation balloons sent up regularly at Huntington, W. Va., to test direction and velocity of the wind," a spokesman said.
