Mystery Plane Spotted At Sea

Evening Gazette de Reno (Nevada), Monday, November 14, 1927
s1Flood, Chuck: Magonia Exchange, 16 avril 2007

NEW YORK, Nov. 14. -- (AP) -- The Radio Corporation of America announced receipt of a radiogram at 10:50 a.m. today from the master of the French liner Ile de France, at sea, reporting the sighting of a white airplane "traveling very high overhead."

The radio company said the French captain reported the plane was traveling west northwest. The ship's position was given as latitude 42.22 north, longitude 61.05 west, or about one hundred miles south southwest of Sable Island.