Flying Manta Ray in Lynchburg?

http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-flying-manta-ray-sighting-lynchburg.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhantomsAndMonstersAPersonalJourney+%28Phantoms+and+Monsters%29

I seem to remember a similar phenomena being reported about 35 years ago.  The photos were quite like the ones now being shown, but the "creatures" were much larger, and I think it was in the upper Midwest.  I think Fate Magazine did a story at the time.