The Phantom Airship Mystery of 1897: what did the Americans see?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- In the last years of the 19th Century, the public looked to the skies in excited anticipation of powered flight. The dream of manned flight had teased humanity for centuries, and now it seemed the dream was on the cusp of becoming a reality. And so when the good people of California, of Nebraska, of Wisconsin and Kansas, Iowa and Illinois, gazed up into the night’s sky and saw a mysterious airship, there was amazement. Yet, this phantom airship vanished into history, and we still don’t know who was behind it. What happened in the skies over the United States in 1896 and 1897? What is the truth behind the phantom airship seen by 100,000 people?
In this video, we will trace the phantom airship’s course across America, and ponder over three theories that might, or might not, explain this mystery.
Incidentally, the USA map in this video is the Rand, McNally & Co., 1903 population map. The Nebraska map is from the same company and era.
Pixabay images: Matthias Groeneveld, Aaron Sandford, & Mike.
Pixabay videos: Hank Photo, FindingFootage, Christian Bodhi, Timofey Iasinskii, Felix Mittermeier, Matthias Groeneveld, Jeongwoo Kim, & Jarek Fethke.
Pixabay music: 'Digital Ambient for Meditation', by Sergey Safikanov.
For those who like to know these things:
Robert E. Bartholomew, ‘The Airship Hysteria of 1896-97’, Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 14, (Winter 1990), pp. 171-181, and Robert E. Bartholomew, ‘Michigan and the Great Mass Hysteria Episode of 1897’, Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, (Spring, 1998), pp. 133-141.
#history #airships #aviationmysteries
It's strange that these people back then the way they describe this thing, using the terminology of their time. Well, I don't guess that's strange, because they had some kind of idea to go by. Kinda like in the 50's the descriptions change according to the times.
I'll share something with you that happened to me when I was about 11 years old back in 68 or 69, (get ready to roll your eyes), I was playing with my brand new hot wheels play set on my front porch with another kid about 8 pm, it was around Christmas time because I had begged my mom for this thing for a while.
We had the front porch light on when something caught our attention about 150' feet above the ground right over the treetops. It was 6 large red lights, approximately 25'- 30' in diameter, flying along in formation like, 2, 4, 6, I mean, this thing was big. It made no sound or wind, no vibration, nothing. We were, I guess you could say, dumbstruck. It was moving along about as fast as a person walks. We stared at the thing for about 5, 6 minutes until it disappeared over the treetops at the end of the street. He looked at me and said, do you think we should tell someone?. I said, nobody would believe us.
My family did not believe in ufos. They would laugh at people who claimed to have seen a ufo and especially someone who said they had been abducted.
So I knew if I told them what we had seen they would have accused me of making it up.
I kept this encounter to myself for years and years and finally told my wife after we had been married for about 8- 10years. Now I knew about jets and balloons and helicopters and I was keeping a close eye on the moon flights, Apollo program. So I wasn't a dummy. This thing, whatever it was, was not something that the government admitted we have. I know what I saw because I watched it for a long time. Anyway I don't know what it was but I sure hope I find out before I die. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
I'm grateful that you shared it
They say be careful what you wish for. So, these are just giants who like to go by ET nowadays! And I grew up with a bunch of nonbelievers as well.
Thank you for sharing your account. I've seen or been part of some things that defy logic, so I completely understand.
@@Davidbirdman101 Thank you for sharing your experience. 👍
Thank you for coming forward with this, I take it seriously and believe it.
As someone who has been a devoted alcoholic for almost 20 years i can absolutely assure you that alcohol will not cause you to halucinate imaginary airships.
Thank for your efforts in name of science. Such commitment should not go unrecognized,so I will have a drink min your honor.
As an fellow alcoholic for 20 yeard as well.i agree.
L M A O
Just pink elephants that walk, isn't it?
Not even shrooms makes you hallucinage whole objects. A high fever, or alcohol withdrawals might, but you would definitely know you were not well.
I would 100% believe multiple airships that met tragic fates, not just because of the slightly differing descriptions but also because when the U.S. Navy experimented with dirigibles 30 years later they lost 4 out of 5.
The only one they did not lose was the one they got from the Zeppelin factory in Germany (the "Los Angeles").
The US Army (Signal Corps) tested it's first Dirigible in 1908. There were HUNDREDS, not 5.
Was that a U .S Navy airship then in 1897... WTF you going on about ..Germany lost many airships as di the USA and UK ..... but they didn't lose them in 1897 .. did they ..The video is not about losing airships is it It is about something that was seen in 1897 ...
@@bigbossimmotal, yes, but we are talking about the U.S.N. airships.
For those who STILL do not understand.
The first powered and controlled flight of an airship, also known as a dirigible, was made by French engineer and inventor Henri Giffard on September 24, 1852.
Newspaper men during that time were known
to create imaginative stories just to sell newspapers.
I want to thank you for your hard research and work on this video.
It was a mystery in 1897, but in 1904 it was on exhibit at the St. Louis world's fair.
You may have noticed that the air ships sighted early in Nebraska followed
the railroad. Another sighting in Hot Springs, Arkansas was reported by
a night watchman who came upon the crew loading the air ship on a railroad car.
Rail was the way to travel that early. Even the Wright brothers shipped their plane
by rail to Kitty Hawk.
One sighting that you did not mention was near one of the little towns near
Waco, Texas. This one fit more comfortably into sightings of 50 or 100 years later.
The farmer observed a man with small boys.
Thanks
Newspaper men of all time have done that. Remember the Orson Welles UFO panic of 1938 wich only existed in the press and never occured in reality.
Newspapermen haven't changed, have they? 😉
Hey pretty much wrote the same thing and then now I just read yours.😂
Following railways was a sure way of navigating, as were rivers and canals. Early WW1 pilots did the same.
Commenter men during this time are known to negate disruptive realities just to quell fears.
New Zealand had a run of 'mystery aircraft' sightings in 1909. Beginning in Southland and travelling up the country, making stops in both urban and rural areas, the craft were described as egg or cigar-shaped, equipped with lights and an undercarriage, and flew completely silently.
On our caves in New Zealands Oamaru to Omarama, are air craft like this in pigment.
Indeed. New Zealand had many sightings south island around Dunedin. Early 1900s. Well documented. Choice.🤙
Yep, fellow NZ UFO enthusiast here. I concur about the NZ sightings. There have been attempts to debunk them as copycats of the US sightings but as far as a I know the mystery has not been solved beyond doubt.
There is a theory that UFOs mimic the technology of the time but a step ahead.
Yes, this is (or was) mentioned a bit in Wikipedia on this subject.
Literally sounds like a blimp. 😂
Sounds a lot like a 1896 Skunkworks-style 'black budget' Project.
My thought exactly.
Likely a variant on the design of Crroat David Schwarz who built two metal airships prior to this around 1895
Did anyone notice when the one person described the backend having a snail like design and a gasoline engine feeding it? That is turbocharging!! That is something needed for engines when they get above a specific height due to the lower oxygen content in the atmosphere the higher you rise. Someone either really saw that or it was a quote by someone later on in our history that knew about the necessary forced induction in higher elevations.
Yes, I picked- up on that snail-shaped device, but didn't think of a turbo-charger per se (was thinking of somthing more exotic, like some kind of vortex generator ...). The first official patenting for a turbo-charger was 1905 in Switzerland (in the German-speaking part, near the Swiss-German border), but maybe the idea was thought of and known about prior to 1905, but was not formally patented.
@@eurojamieAll patents are just lost or stolen technology.
The design of props was not as established back then as it was now, so a "snail like design" might have been an old style screw propeller (certain types, especially if they taper fore and aft, can look snail like).
The excuse for Mass hysteria has always sounded like bullshit to me, it's just a really easy way to explain away something without actually doing any work.
Yes. That fulfills a purpose. Deal with it.
@@Frogstomp27 keep your mind closed I'm shure it will take you far.
some of them really are just mass hysteria. but yeah i agree its really annoying when people just dismiss it outright wihtout considering the alternatives
Sounds like your mind just close
That's how debunkers, i.e., Mick West and his ilk, still operate in modern times.
Outright dismissal without evidence, or poor research and examination of what evidence they do look at...
It's really cool how you made multiple different, conceptually feasible airship models which all fit the basic descriptions of the craft, and then interspersed them randomly throughout the night sky shots in the video. Brilliant idea!!
Thanks more making this video. The phantom airships are one of my favorite mysteries.
Humans always see "UFOs" that look like their own time's popular idea of advanced technology. Around WWI, when aviation was starting to become common, there were many sightings of mystery airplanes that seemed to fly too high and too fast for the technology of the times. When propellers were substituted by jets, mystery aircraft started to hover with no apparent engines. It seems unexplained flying things keep getting updated in sync with human imagination.
There is a Gary Larson cartoon where a group of cavemen see a flying saucer made of ticks and stones.
Solid holographic craft are easy to alter after all.
You just described the modern version of "fairy magic"
Swamp gas evolving. 😂
@futurepig....The Old Testament prophet Ezekiel had a vision where he saw a "wheel within a wheel" and other details. Was he seeing a highly advanced aircraft but the only reference he knew was a wheel on a cart or chariot?
@@marbleman52 He was probably tripping
My great great uncle was one of the very first US Navy pilots before WW1 and was the first Navy pilot shot at in combat and his wife ( my aunt ) was the first woman to fly over New York City. He was Lt. Richard Sauffley and my aunt was Helen O'Rear. Sauffley Field Naval base in Pensacola, Florida and the WW2 ship USS Sauffley are named for him. He also commanded one of the first American submarine. Look him up online, he makes for interesting reading.
What a life your ancestors lived! Thanks for sharing
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Well done video! I wrote a paper on 19th century American humor. One of the things I learned was that pranking was widely practiced by adults and even whole towns as a form of entertainment. The appearance of a real airship could have been easily multiplied and embroidered upon by pranksters.
I love the eerie atmosphere that you nailed in this video. Reminds me of some kind of show you’d see on Television on the history or discovery channel in the 90’s/00’s. Keep it weird.
Another good book is The Secrets of Dellshau: The Sonora Aero Club & the Airships of the 1800s by Dennis Crenshaw.
Walter Bosley has written some good ones as well. "Empire of the Wheel II: Friends from Sonora" covers the Aero Club and the mysterious NYMZA.
Alcohol☠️and the misidentification of Venus 🌙play a part, really?
@@nuthinasitseems5213 Don't forget that venusian light was being reflected off swamp gas. And the witnesses didn't go to college, therefore they were blind.
I remember reading a story about one of those coming over a farm. The 'pilot' came to the ground to ask the farmer for a bucket of water. He then returned to his craft (I don't know how) and flew off into the night.
Did he also give him pancakes?
@@EugeneLoreyyes pancakes
I read online a story about a group in the c1890s in the San Francisco Bay area working on airship/aircraft projects. The group had a master craftsman of German origin who used some technique that he had presumably learned about in Europe and he wanted to keep it secret. There was some dispute between this craftsman and others in the group and the factions split, but it was only speculated that one or more factions carried on with the projects seperately. That's all I recall from reading about it online, but I think it mentioned leads to some exotic ideas on air flight and fluid dynamics being experimented with in Europe, and Argentina I think, in the mid-late 1800s.
If I remember right, Europe had a few glider clubs, where they would fly their non-motorized airplanes over and around hillsides.
This was before the Wright brothers put a bicycle motor on their glider (if I remember right).
Look up Croat David Schwarz and his metal airships, this 1897 one is likely a copy.
Könnte nicht damals schon ein genialer Erfinder seiner Zeit viel weiter voraus gewesen sein als wir heute glauben?
Sure, but he had better be a rich one. Building something like that back then would cost a fortune.
Master Of The World comes to mind with Vincent Price
Excellent movie. I'm gonna have to watch it again. There's a book made into a Disney 🤮 movie. Can't remember the name, they go north and find vikings. There's also a sci-fi book called Genesis, very hard to find now, that grabs the airship sightings as part of a 150 year long story.
As with most things strange the story starts in California is just fantastic and true
Kansas City -- Kansas and Missouri each have one, They are adjacent, and the MO one has population around 509 thousand, the KS one has population around 153 thousand.
A tax on windows??? God God man, that's daylight robbery.😂😂😂
They tried to tax windows in America too... but Bill Gates fought hard against it
@@futurepig👍 Good.
i think it was supposed to target bigger houses and mansions or something
Nice one.
@futurepig I'm sorry, lm a little slow. The penny has just dropped regarding Bill Gates and Windows.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Culiacan México 1967..a flying train like a tube several dozens of meters long with lighted windows with shadowy figures looking down passed just floating about 100 meters above the city at dawn just before the first lights of the morning..silently flew over without making noise..several persons witnessed the object..it sound your video very close to the thing people saw then in Culiacán...🎉😊❤
I wonder if that was a phanta Morgana, which sometimes makes boats or even cities "appear" to be floating in the distance.
It's related to a "mirage" .
This has always fascinating me. An amazing little mystery.
Nicely done. In my trilogy “He’ll Fighters From Earth” I allude to these sightings, and the people behind the ship were a group of wealthy people and their followers who wanted to get away from the rest of humanity.
Plays like a fever dream. You didn’t even discuss the passengers and crew described on the airships.
Great video. I really like your animations, particularly the animated maps. It really adds atmosphere and character.
There were several airship sightings around the UK around this time.
Well, there's nothing implausible about an airship like that: you could almost figure they adventured their way across the country and then got blown out to sea before the big reveal or something.
Loved it - particularly that gentle English humour, and the excellent graphics. I've known of these stories for a long time - one of the serious scientific journals (forget which) published a very down to earth book about early UFO sightings, from this time to the 1960's some forty years ago, and that included these tales, and others. One involved a 'super-zep' overtaking a Chicago-bound express train in broad daylight. And, as several people have commented, there were a number of British incidents, particularly in South Wales and the Pennines.
American newspapers - particularly rural ones - were known to spin windies around then, certainly, as a means of entertaining their readers - Mark Twain was adept at it. But, even so, given the technological acchievments of the day, I'd not be willing to put money on the stories, either way.
Anyway, do we want it proved or disproved? Its more fun to leave it as it is.
I love this video that you did, thankyou. But there is a common misconception about something you stated. The wind does not just travel in the direction its perceived. The sky is filled with layers of wind that can travel in different directions compared to on another. Imagine the surf that you see on a shore. One could say the water is only coming in but underneath the surface its traveling out and in the case of rip currents, parallel to the shore. Staring at the sky it's not uncommon to see clouds very high up traveling in a different direction than the air hitting your face. So to see an airship traveling not in the direction of wind can be normal depending upon their altitude. The US military in WW2 learned this when bombing Japan when bombers were actually traveling backwards in some cases when compared to the ground when they entered the jet stream.
My Great Grandpa and his sons had a ranch in the far northern California Sacramento Valley on the westside. They had a clear view of the coastal mountains to the west. They were far away from any news source of the time and knew nothing of the airships. They were working the ranch when they spotted this large object out over the mountains heading north along the coast. They said it seemed rather large. Now they did not hear of the sightings elsewhere till a couple of weeks later after grandpa road into town to pick up the mail, newspapers and some supplies. They were surprised by the reports in the papers. They thought it had gone down in the Pacific.
I cant believe I never heard of this phenomenon!
Great investigation and visuals
This was a really well researched piece. Thank you for not taking us down the visitors from outer space or the visitors from another dimension rabbit holes. Your summation sounds well considered and well supported. Please keep this sort of content coming! 👍
Damn, if it's real, then it could be a buried great history of the first ever try of cross-continental flight by a manned aircraft.
Could you do a video on the Airship from "Robur the Conqueror"? I was always fascinated by this Jules Verne story, as it depicts a flying machine made from something we today would call carbon fiber and powered by electric helicopter lifting propellers. The novell also starts with a bunch of people reporting moving objects in the sky and even hearing music being played on board.
I saw a 1960s movie version of that book, starring Vincent Price, and this video instantly reminded me of it.
Would be great
He said at about 1:15 that he came across the subject of this video "whilst researching the _Albatross_ of Jules Verne...." That _IS_ the airship from _Robur the Conqueror._
@@davidbirr2718 Yup, wrote the comment before I got to that part of the video, really looking forward to him covering the subject.
In Waco incident two of the crewman began to discuss about Cuba and Spain just in front of the farmer, one of the man was very tall and olive tone skin,that give me the key,in fact was Spaniard,they came from NYMZA "airclub",the story is too bizarre and incredible to tell here.
This story has always fascinated me, and in all honestly your concluding theory may very well be just what happened one-hundred-and-twenty-seven years ago in my opinion. Great video!
I recall Anton Wilson speculated this was the invention of the Hell Fire club in Texas.
Cool illustrations,- probably something similar to 'the phoenix lights' incident, which was also witnessed by many & actually photographed by a few. It happened on march 13, 1997.
I love the what-ifs this channel discusses. Yet, I am confident those airships sighting are just a foreshadowing of later Ufo sightings.
Hell, I remember newspaper article reports of cigar shaped craft in the early '60's.
Having lived in & traveled to many of these places, you couldn't imagine how rural these were and still are. Regarding the conjectured size of the airship, a 100' long airship was a roughly 2-passenger size. To carry a gondola and drive system + crew, historically it would have needed to be 600'+. Not to suggest they couldn't have hidden it but any farmer knows the difference between 200' and 600'
It was what the Americans heard that drove fear into their hearts:
"KIROV REPORTING."
The USSR did not exist in 1897, nor did radios.
Excellent coverage of this subject! Two of the crew were actually named in one report: ""The airship is very much as reported by The News ... It consists of a cigar-shaped body about 60 feet in length ... The motive power is an immense wheel at each end, in appearance much like a metallic windmill. It is driven by an immense electric engine, which derives its power from storage batteries."
The crewmen - earthlings, as it sadly turned out - gave their names as S.E. Tilman and A.E. Dolbear. They explained that they were on a test cruise in compliance with a contract they held with certain New York capitalists." Samuel Escue Tilman and Amos Emerson Dolbear and both historical figures, they both have Wikipedia pages so it adds a lot of credibility. One was a Army colonel and the other was a professor of electricity and engineering.
Somehow I’ve never heard of this one. Thank you for covering it!
What a great premise for a Hollywood blockbuster, plus no superhero’s. Thanks
Probably.
Be.spoilt.by.stupid.love.story
Are.even.worse.bank.robbery
Get.away
No. No hollywood.
Excellent content as always. Many thanx 👍👍
Theory four: It was a group of Swedish aliens that got lost trying to find the leader of Earth.
Jokes aside, this is actually really fascinating. I adore rigid airships and their history, so the idea of an early aircraft inventor flying one around the country predominantly at night with a giant search light (because of course you would, even early on you'd hopefully know that flying a relatively untested aircraft at night is exceedingly dangerous without some way of at least determining how close you are to the ground) and being seen in a bunch of different places as it's tested in secret is just an incredible mental image. I wouldn't say I'm convinced, but it's reasonably plausible, of course even if it did happen a lot of the sightings are definitely not credible, but that said it wouldn't really surprise me at all if one or more of these crafts were actually flown in secret but were lost due to the inherent danger of early rigid airships and early manned flight in general. Rigid airships, while not yet commonplace, had existed for decades at that point and there was a sort of arms race to be the first person to perfect manned flight, so I'd argue that this is definitely within the realm of possibility.
I agree that it would be worth looking into the missing persons records from 1897 to see if any rich people mysteriously vanished around the time, that wouldn't prove anything by itself but might add some voracity to the claims if there's anything that could tie them to these sightings. Although I'd honestly be surprised if no one's ever attempted that before, plus it's entirely possible that if there is some truth to this, then the person or persons involved might not have even been American citizens, just working in the US for purely practical reasons, whatever that may be.
Considering the penchant private Citizens have of opening fire on anything they cannot identify, or the possibility of severe weather affecting an airship even now, it is plausible to assume it was removed from the air one way or another,
Rather like the experimental Avro Arrow fighter jet approaching U.S Airspace in 1957 At a speed of mach 1.9 unannounced, at the height of the cold war, Reactions will vary...Cheers.
Surely not Venus, never heard of searchlights coming from Venus.
Shhh we don't want the humans 2 know lol .
Thank you for the video. I remember hearing a bit about this some years ago, but you've found all the stories of the airship and put it in one spot
Are there any records of airships being built? The fabric envelope, framework, engines...and crews to assemble it. It would have had to be built somewhere...
Is this a partial inspiration for "Columbia" in Bioshock: Infinite? The plot largely revolves around a giant Airship/floating city/world fair location built in the USA but then it "seceded" and left, it was occasionally sighted in various places including the US mainland.
That’s what I thought!
I love that this started from researching Verne's albatross. I look forward to seeing how you design that flying machine too.
Though if you are up for a challenge of Scale, I would also suggest you look at Verne's Standard Island in his book Propeller Island. Very fascinating craft!
I did not know of this. I like your theory of al three, that makes sense.
I remember the February of 1897. The winter was harsh and snow ❄️ sparkled ✨️ like millions of pieces of broken glass. Then we heard the voices in the air above us and lifted our heads...
Adore this video, would love more content like this!
*_"After all, the press and the media of today would never lie to us now, would they."_*
🤭🤭🤭
First, looking forward to your upcoming Albatross video. Next, thanks for this video, excellent presentation. 👍🎉 Finally, I have wonder if you’ll do videos concerning other such things as UFO sightings but perhaps also things such as The Moth-Man plus Spring-heel Jack?
I started watching this video, thought of Robur The Conqueror, and you immediately mentioned the Albatross- coincidence?...
_I think not!_
Brilliant video
I was reading about these airship sightings and other things moving around and falling from the skies around the 1800's in one of Charles Fort's books only the other day, amazing how much he documented.
This is exactly like the UFO craze in the US of the 1950’s. 🤔
Some think the mystery airships were UFO sightings, described as airships as that was what people were familiar with at the time.
One crashed in a small town in Texas. The "aeronaut" is buried in the local graveyard under multiple feet of concrete.
Interesting story, I had heard something about this but not as in depth as this. People sometimes see what they want to see or what they expect to see when it is in fact something rather different. My dad was very sceptical of these stories, it wasn't that he thought people hadn't seen "something" but he believed it wasn't what they thought. He was ex RAF and had served as a gunner during WW2 and afterwards for a while as well. He used to tell me stories of gunners occasionally opening fire on their own distorted reflection in the turret plexiglass or their own aircrafts shadow on a cloud, convinced they were firing at enemy fighters which of course they expected to see. Back in 1966, someone filmed a very convincing UFO from an aicraft, dad was having none of it, its just a distorted reflection of part of the wing in the window he said, and sure enough that was exactly what it turned out to be. As a young lad who believed in aliens etc I was very crestfallen, but as I've aged I've adopted his scepticism. Having been drinking alcohol for fifty four years I can attest it doesn't make you hallucinate. Has anyone considered that this story may have been triggered by someone's encounter with an ordinary balloon? The story becoming increasingly embellished over time. Just a thought.
You might want to check out the Tillinghast airship of 1909 over Worcester Massachusetts, flying all the way to New York.
I remember reading about this topic during my middle/high school interest in UFOs; I've since grown very skeptical of the ET explanations.
This was the time of Langley and the Wright Brothers too…there were definitely lots of tinkerers, so it would make sense that maybe a few here and there thought that trying the new technology of electric or gasoline engines might lead to fame or fortune if coupled with an aerostat…and we know there were successful gliders and nearly successful steam planes…so it’s really not a stretch to imagine the local mad scientist building some “flying machine” and never being heard from again…
It crashed in Aurora, Texas and the alien pilot was buried in the Aurora Cemetery.
We all already know. Half the story makes more sense to narrow minded
If you think about the amazement of flight at the time, it was so much more than incredible and fascinating than we understand today. The thought of floating above the ground and looking down upon the world with a view that was only dreamed about would be consuming to some. Knowing it could be done at the time and having the basic premise out in the world, I imagine that many were more than willing to try to make it happen, and some may well have.
At a few points, I found that the music was a bit too loud. Great video, though, on a subject that is not widely covered. Two thumbs up 👍 👍
To my ears, the (loud) background music and something about the gain level of the voice make this difficult to understand. Otherwise, it's great and very interesting, including the Mackay Quote.
It was also seen in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I used to have a copy of the local newspaper article, but it’s been lost over the years.
Me pareció interesante y entretenido, el sonido y la voz fuerte y clara. Gracias.
date of stories fading out (May 13)--is important. In upper midwest and new england--the winter weather breaks in this 1 week period. Springtime absolutely brings on different priorities :)
19:11 I think the first airship designed by Santos-Dumont, made its first takeoff attempt in February 1898,
Were any wildfires reported in those areas that could have been a crash that would have destroyed/hidden the evidence?
It must have been Robur :-)
With the advent of mobile phones I am waiting for the surge of acurate videos of ufo's hitting the net!
Great One!! Thanks!
People finally seeing UFO as airships compared to the ships and chariots, wheels etc of older UFO sightings.
Well done! I clicked like and I subscribed.
The Michael Busby book on this subject is a fantastic read, and well researched.
A far better example of mass hysteria was the Orson Welles radio broadcast of War of the Worlds in the 30s. He did have a disclaimer at the beginning, but none thereafter, so people tuning in late thought it was a real attack on New Jersey & tried to flee, hopelessly tying up the roads at night.
There is no actual evidence that the Orson Welles' radio broadcast actually caused any mass hysteria. There were not actually people fleeing or tying up traffic. It was clearly announced three times during the broadcast that it was fiction. The source material was well known to the general public. Newspapers literally made up the "mass hysteria" angle as a dig at radio, which was a rather new competitor.
About 1985 3 craft flew over Hull Bilton and Fitling then out over the North Sea. The RAF said nothing was flying that night then changed it to an American tanker refuelling up to 6 fighters . No craft had any navigation or strobe lights flashing. From the side ten red lights and two white lights where seen. From the back six or eight large exhausts where visible, think Saturn rocket type exhausts at lift off so blue you can see into the exhaust. From directly underneath as seen by a young lady down Newbridge road Hull, over fifty yes 50 lights stationary but turning. No way is this a tanker aircraft.
1897! Wooden spaceships were all the rage.
Well yeah. It was either wood or iron/steel. Wood is lighter. Most early planes were wood frames covered with fabric.
What software did you use to make the map pin animation ca. 09:57 (and elsewhere)?
Great material. This issue is widly explored by UFO fans but the explanation may be as simple as you pictured it 😊. Thanks!
But it does not explain the one that crashed and they buried the pilot in the local cemetery..in Texas I believe...😮
Left out information
Can't have that info in there!
Is that a true story or just a local legend?
TDS mentioned lol
Its interesting how the most UFO sightings are in the U.S. and Australia/NZ.
I have family in Hudson MI - it's a small town. I've not heard of this before!
bro u gotta do something about your audio and voice. hard to understand even at high volume. great video though
Part of me kinda wants it to be aliens trolling us
There's a book series called "The Long Earth", where governments use airships to travel between parallel Earth. Maybe they were visitors from a technologically advanced version of Earth.
A collaboration between Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.
I've wondered if this is a possible explanation for UFOs. Provided any of them are real.
@@mpetersen6We only need one to be real
The airships were seen in Australia and New Zealand; 1908 and 1927.
One of Buck Rogers first rocket ships which was propelled by sparklers......
My money's on The Emperor's New Clothes senario: some pranksters came up with the idea on a slow news day, and everyone else who claimed to see it did so either to make themselves seem more important, or to poke fun at all the people who read about it in the papers and believed it at face value.
Yes cause God knows that the easiest thing to fake in the 1800's is a giant airship LOL
@@abundantYOUniverse Show me some private letters or diary enrties from the time, then I'll consider taking it seriously😉
I remember when I was a child reading a book about UFOs that mentioned this airship mystery. As well as ancient references to the chariots of the and similar aerial vehicles.
The theory it suggested is that there is a common phenomenon behind all these and UFOs. With them appearing to humans as something that minds at the time could grasp. And maybe meant to stimulate technological investigation and innovation.
...what if this video is an example and this is the first time it's ever been reported?
@@Penfolduk001 Jacques Vallee ?
There were many people attempting things with balloons around that time.
I saw a photo of the california airship on UA-cam ,can't remember the site though it was amazing historical photos