Tag Archives: 1951-1960

X-Files: Pittsboro Edition

On August 8, 1952, the Chatham Record reported strange doings in the Pittsboro sky:

It’s too bad the object disappeared before Reverend Maness could take a gander at it; it might have saved Mr. Morgan some ribbing over the next few weeks if he’d had such an unimpeachable witness to back up his claim.  Still, it’s not everyone who has the gumption to run an account of their own personal UFO sighting on the front page of the local newspaper.