The same UP wire service story is republished in:
M. K. Jessup, The Expanding Case For The UFO. New York: Citadel Press, 1957, p. 247.
Note that this version carries what's supposed to be the date of wire service filing, and it says 22 August.
This is fantastic and an enormous help.
To recap - and this is simply from searching through the invaluable newspaper.com archives for various key phrases:
There were at least two versions of a press release published on the 22nd August.
I say "a", rather than "the", because there are variations in what was actually published, suggesting this specific news release might have been reissued, perhaps more than once, with alterations.
Firstly, see my post #1,143.
As noted, there were at least two related newspaper publications on 22 August.
I have since check and as suspected, the 'Salinas Californian' (the saved .pdf is headed 'The Californian') front page confirms an evening edition. Although the 'Modesto Bee' doesn't, presumably it is also..
As we can see from the .pdfs I included, both use the UP newsfeed phrase, "glowed with an inner illumination".
However, for reasons unbeknownst, the related newspaper coverage published on 23, is in a slightly different incarnation.
The phrase "glowed with an inner illumination" hsd been replaced by a specific quote and there is additional detail.
Could we assume the original news release was superceded by a fresh update, in time for the morning newspapers?
As shown in the examples, there are two different quotations, again perhaps implying ongoing updates from UP. We have:
"A few minutes later, Sutton said, "A little green man, about three feet tall, with eyes like saucers and set about six inches apart who glowed all over," came near the house.
Sutton said the little man retreated when he fired a shotgun into the air, then fell and ran off when he fired a second time directly at him".
However, we also have (my italics highlighting key differences), from the 'Indianapolis Star':
"A few minutes later, "a little green man" approached the house. He was about three feet tall, with eyes like saucers and set about six inches apart
and hands like claws and glowing all over" Sutton said.
About five feet from the door of the house he stopped and retreated when the Suttons fired a shotgun off into the air.
But soon he returned again, and the Suttons fired at him. He fell down from the blast, and then ran off into the fields".
When did the "five feet from the door" happen?
There is no attribution to where and when this was supposedly said by "the Suttons", or where and when 'the Suttons" ever fired a warning shot so close.
Herein, lies an integral problem with these newsfeeds - they can be perhaps be untrustworthy.
Continued in part 2...