Secret Origin of the Mystery Airships! (Phantom Airships, Ghost Airships, UFOs, 1896, 1897)

MYS280: In 1896 and 1897, Mystery Airships were reported from California to the Mississippi, which some believed were alien ships. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli eliminated many theories about the airships, and now address the final mystery: what were the airships, who made them, and was the government involved?

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Links for this episode:

* Michael Busby’s book Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery

* J. Allan Danelek’s book The Great Airship of 1897

* Carlos Allende’s book Close Encounters of the Phantom Kind: The Ghost Airship Wave of 1896-1897 in the News

* “Just Tell Them That You Saw Me” (video)

* Dolbear’s Law

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