Before flying saucers, before Tic-Tac UFOs, before government task forces scrambling to explain strange things in the sky—there were the mysterious airships of 1896 and 1897. Reports flooded newspapers across the U.S.: massive, otherworldly crafts, some equipped with bright searchlights, others manned by bizarre humanoids. Were they experimental aircraft, mass hysteria, or something else entirely?

In this episode, we dive into one of history’s earliest recorded UFO flaps and compare it to modern-day UAP sightings and the recent drone phenomena. Are we witnessing the same pattern of strange technology appearing just ahead of its time? And why do these mysterious aerial objects always seem to match the limits of human imagination? Join us as we explore one of history’s greatest unsolved skybound mysteries—because some things never change, they just get new names.