In the late 1890s, there was a wave of sightings over the US of mysterious airships displaying unusual flight characteristics. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss these unusual airships and the theories that they were aliens, hoaxes, or maybe something else.AI-powered
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Airship Mystery of 1896 and 1897 (Mystery Airships, Phantom Airships, Ghost Airships, UFOs)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Mysterious Appearance of an Airship
This chapter discusses the mysterious appearance of an airship in 1896 and 1897. Witnesses describe it as a bright light suspended beneath a large, cigar-like shape with propellers and rudders. Despite the fantastic descriptions, most believed it to be a new kind of dirigible invented by humans and not of extraterrestrial origin.
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