It’s funny the stuff we’ve come across in the newsroom as we clean out old file cabinets in preparation for our move to the Busy Corner downtown in December.
For example, our big meeting table is buried under yellowed newspapers from World War II with headlines announcing, for example, F.D.R. meeting with Churchill and Stalin in Iran to map war strategy. Other headlines scream of “Reds” advancing against Nazis while “Yanks” bomb “Japs.”
(Whew! The language we used to throw around in print!)
Last week, my boss dug out something that immediately jumped out at me. (And not just because my boss dug it out.)
It was an April 24, 1977, story by legendary Gazette Telegraph reporter Dorothy Aldridge about UFOs being sighted in Colorado.
Dorothy described a “baby UFO and its Big Mama” that had been seen regularly near Sterling, in Logan County in northeast Colorado, since November 1976. She described the UFOs as “soundless, illusive flying objects” that began attracting a “devoted audience of nighttime viewers.”
Among those monitoring the UFOs was Logan County Sheriff Harry “Tex” Graves, who wondered if they might be related to the “unexplainable deaths and confirmed mutilation of 72 cattle in the county since August.”
The story was illustrated by photos of bizarre lights in the sky. The photographer worked for the Sterling Journal-Advocate.
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