Initial data
Balloon third time over the region.
The chief of patrol 48 N dispatch dated 30 October reported to the authorities that a switchman K., met train No. 34 in 5 hours 25 minutes in the evening, noticed the ball flying over the train from West to East. Kind of ball shaped cigars.
At the entrance of the train bridge the track guard was given the usual signal horn that "the way is clear", the passengers of the balloon probably heard this signal and turned sharply to the South, and behind the ball much sparkled like the sparks flowed a continuous stream of three minutes. After this maneuver, all was plunged into darkness. The testimony of the switchman is partly confirmed by the words of nurses who have arrived with train No. 36. They are also seen in the South as in the air were sparks, but does nothing more to consider.
As in the first appearance of a ball (13 July) and subsequent (September 22 and October 30) provided the form of a sphere, a cigar, only the sparks for the first time, and was once the floodlights and even the monitoring officers with binoculars on July 14 near Adrianovka, in the tail of the balloon was a red lantern, and in the middle of a spotlight, a light which then disappeared, then appeared. Obviously signalling.
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