This book is also found in a hardbound edition, Thunderbirds: America’s Living Legends of Giant Birds, from Cosimo Classics (2008), by Mark A. Hall.

On April 10, 1948, three individuals in Overland, Illinois spotted what they originally thought to be a passing plane, but after seeing a large set of flapping wings, they realized this “plane” was something very different.

Fake photo of flying winged weirdie.