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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the May 1949 Virginia and Tennessee flying-disc newspaper report, showing a wide dusk landscape over the Blue Ridge ridgelines with small darkened towns below as a single long fiery cigar-shaped object with a bright red glowing nose crosses the deep-blue evening sky from southwest to east, trailing a wriggling tail of fire and smoke, with a few distant unidentifiable people looking up from a roadside; rendered in coarse low-saturation late-1940s silver-gelatin press texture, with a clipped newspaper fragment headlined "These Flying Discs Are At It Again" and a high-contrast map showing a straight dashed southwest-to-northeast line through Kingsport, Bristol, Pulaski, Christiansburg, and Roanoke, and restrained red tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, multiple Virginia and Tennessee witnesses, source the Lynchburg Advance 1949, status Explained as a probable fireball.

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Virginia Sightings

1949: These Flying Discs Are At It Again, Virginians Report – Newspaper

Published: August 8, 2013 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1949: “These Flying Discs Are At It Again” — Virginia & Tennessee On the evening of May...