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
The Mystery Airships of 1896 and 1897
Exploring the two separate phases of airship sightings in 1896 and 1897 along the West Coast and then in the middle of the country, and discussing the concept of 'flaps' in UFO literature and the varying descriptions of the mystery airships.
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