Details of maneuvers of cogwheel-like mechanisms--possibly sonde devices
from another world designe~ to record relief of earth's surface--sighted on
Mar. 26, 1966, near Attigneville, France; on May 31, 1955, at Puy-Sajnt-
Galmier, France; and on Feb. 8, 1855, in DevonsJ-Jre, England.
Caputo, Livio. Anche gli astronauti hanno visto i dischi volanti. Epoca, v. LXIV,
Aug. 28, 1966: 16-<!3.
Report on UFO sightings, chiefly in the U.S. 1 from 1897 to 191Hi and on investt-
gation of phenomenon by Project Blue Book. Research programs of NICAP and
APRO are mentioned.
Ciark, Jerome. A contact claim. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Jan. -Feb. 1965:
30-32.
Noting 'the way in which the "beings" associated with the 1897 "airship" sightings
seemed ~nteres.tcd in reinforcing the belief that the craft was of mundane origin,
the author concludes that the extraterrestrials either were engaged in some un-
known activity in which they did not want their real iden•ity made known, or that
they chose to hide their existence realizing that the comparative unsophistica-
tion of nineteenth century Americans would not permit them to accept the inter -
planetary answer.
----- More on 1897. Flying saucer review, v. 13, July-Aug. 1967: 22-23.
Story in the April 2::S, 1897, Harrisburg (Ark.} Modern News is quoted, relating
the visit of an "airship'' and conversation of the ''aeronaut" with ~.n ex-Senator.
----- The strange case of the 1897 airship. Flying saucer review, v. 12, July-
Aug. 1966: 10-17.
Account of large numbers of piloted aircraft, carrying brilliant searchlights
and hun1an-like passengers, capable of flying against the wind, landing and
taking off when approached, which first appeared in northern California in
November 1896 and reappeared all over the wester;; and midwestern United
States in March 1897.
Farish, Lucius. An 1880 UFO. Flying saucer review, v. 11, May-June 1965: 34-
35.
A balloon describP.d as raving the shape of a fish and ''apparently guided by :i
large fanlike apparatus" was seen, with occupants, over Gallisto Junction,
N. M., on March 26, 1880. Account appf'ared in the Daily New Mexican, San-
ta Fe, 1880, and in June 1964 _True West magazine.
Unidentified ''airships" of the Gay Nineties. Fate, v. 19, Nov. 1966: 94-104.
Newspaper items ~re cited as evidence of aerial activity over a large portion
of the U.S. d'lring 1896-1897. Passengers of aircraft also reportedly observed.
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