Airship Mystery of 1896 and 1897 (Mystery Airships, Phantom Airships, Ghost Airships, UFOs)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Arguments for and Against Airships in the Sky
This chapter discusses the general arguments for and against the existence of airships before the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903, exploring the possibility that the airships reported in the 1890s were real.
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Transcript
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.
