Great Airship Mystery, 1896-1897
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Name (Latin)
Great Airship Mystery, 1896-1897
Other forms of name
Airship Mystery, 1896-1897
Mystery Airship Sightings, 1896-1897
See Also From tracing topical name
Unidentified flying objects Sightings and encounters
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Q892372
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sh2008006799
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: [Clinton Williams Collection, 1896-1897]photocopy of a typescript "Great Airship Mystery" of research notes gathered by Williams about a mysterious airship that appeared over Michigan and seventeen other states in 1896 and 1897.
- Cohen, Daniel. Great airship mystery, c1981.
- Great Airship site via WWW, Aug. 28, 2008(John W. Keely developed an airship during the period of 1888 to 1893 ... demonstrated to the War Department which could see no use for such a complex device ... airship sightings began in 1897, one year after Keely's War Department demonstration. Includes numerous citations from papers beginning in Chicago on April 2, 1897, sightings also in Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Virginia, Texas)
- Museum of UnNatural History site via WWW, checked Aug. 28, 2008Mystery Airship of 1896 (Eighteen ninety-six was marked by a strange occurrence, an amazing phenomenon that those that saw it probably never forgot. People, by the thousands, living across North America, from San Francisco to Chicago, observed strange lights in the sky. The lights, reportedly an airship, crossed the continent from west to east while the country watched.The excitement started on November 17, 1896 in Sacramento, California. It was a rainy, dismal night. Then, through the dark clouds, appeared a bright light. It moved slowly west appearing to be about a thousand feet above the rooftops. Hundreds of people saw the light including George Scott, an assistant to the Secretary of State of California. Scott persuaded some friends to join him on the observation deck above the capitol dome and from there they thought they could see three lights, not one. Above the lights was a dark, oblong shape.