Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1916 — Strange Aerial Craft Seen By Worth McCarthy and F. Horsewood. [ARTICLE]

Strange Aerial Craft Seen By Worth McCarthy and F. Horsewood.

Worth McCarthy and Frank Horsewood were together at Frank’s fgnn last Wednesday night and noticed a light floating about in the sky. It first they thought it was a star but it soared up and. down. It was evidently an aeroplane and seemed to them to have passed directly over Rensselaer. It might have been the same machine that floated over Lafayette last Friday’ evening and was witnessed by many Sunday .evening. When the light was seen in the sky above Lafayette Sunday night the news spread rapidly over the city, Many people gathered on the streets to see it. It drifted at a high altitude but there is not much doubt that it was ah aeroplane. After watching the craft a while it disappeared in the west. The strange aerial visitor has floated above Lafayette- a number of times recently, j