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happen. Here's the report as
taken directly from the old records:
Chicago Record, Friday, April 2, 1897: "_See Great Airship!_ Kansas
City, Missouri people excited . . . mystical black object casting before it
red light startled whole city for the last two weeks! At last
descended . . . ten-thousand people swear they have no hallucinations!
Scoffers and disbelievers claim the people have been seeing the planet
Venus or the Evening Star, even though according to the almanac this
planet should have set below the horizon at least an hour before! Object
appeared very swiftly, then appeared to stop and hover over the city for
ten minutes at a time, then after flashing its green-blue and white lights,
shot upwards into space . . . light gradually twinkling away and looking
like a bright star. Time: 8:15 p. m.
"Everest, Kansas has sighted a strange airship, Competent reporters
state that this must be the air-ship that was built in Oakland, California
and which broke away at launching time . . . this giant air-ship hovered
one half hour at a time and descended at regular intervals very close to
the Earth. A giant searchlight flooded the whole city with light from
this aerial monster which with the velocity of an eagle darted up and

away. Power source must have been attached to the light for it dimmed
as the ship went up and away. On observer states that there seemed to
be a basket or car beneath a great dark object thought to be a gas bag
overhead . . . car was shaped like a canoe and had four wings, two on
each side, fore and aft . . . light was greenish or blue against the light of
a locomotive in the rail yard that was yellowish. Colored lights seemed
to be all around the car."
This unusual craft showed up later in Michigan, but before quoting
from the record, let's analyze the above report. First of all, the
authorities passed off the entire incident by calling the spacecraft the
planet Venus. That same thing has happened in our present Saucer saga.
They called the object Captain Mantell was chasing Venus, when it
couldn't possibly have been that planet. This craft over Kansas City
flashed blue-green lights and this color combination is now
predominant in Saucer sightings of to-day. The report goes on to state
that the power source must have been attached to the light for it
dimmed as the ship went up and away. It is known today that the speed
of Saucers has a great deal to do with the color changes.
Chicago Record, April 3, 1897: "_Flying Machine Now in Michigan!_
People of Galesburg saw a brilliant white light approach from the
SW . . . object appeared large and black with a crackling, sharp sound.
It hovered close to the Earth. Reporters state that they heard human
voices from aloft . . . from the airship! When the ship went off, it
seemed to be tipped with flame. (Local comment was that the airship
had caught fire!) Time: 10.00 p. m."
Chicago Record, April 6, 1897: "_Airship Now Into Illinois!_ Seen
first at 8:00 p. m. in NW . . . . large red light. Suggestions of balloon
are refuted because airship flew at tremendous speed into a high wind."
Chicago Record, April 7, 1897: "Airship seen many times last few
weeks. Large numbers of people first hand witnesses. One time, a
motorman of a trolley actually stopped his vehicle so he and passengers
could look at the wonderful sight . . . just ahead of his trolley, the ship
seemed about six-hundred feet up and about one-hundred feet long. The
motorman, Mr. Newville, says it was ellipsoid with large projections

fore and aft. There was a bright headlight in front and a red light in the
rear."
From Hastings, Nebraska, came the report that the "airship" had been
seen in Grand Island, Oxford, York and Kearney. Scoffers claimed
these people had seen Venus, yet all the reporters were people of
substance and not given to reporting spurious stories. This all happened
in 1897, but we could date it 1956 and it would be right up to date.
To-day, officialdom tries to explain much of it away as "natural"
phenomena. Airplanes hadn't been invented in 1897 so they explained
it away as balloons or Venus . . . today they say it's balloons, Venus, or
airplanes . . . two-thousand years ago they might have called it
"Apollo", or "chariots of fire", or "wheels within wheels".
Chicago Record, April 9, 1897: "_Airship Seen In Iowa!_ Between
West Liberty and Cedar Rapids appeared a bright light . . . giant
airship . . . steel body. When leaving it appeared to be a large star