Laisrean
June 18th, 2008, 06:19 PM
Link (http://www.thepaper24-7.com/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=22&ArticleID=16320)
Many people across the country swore to seeing an airship in American skies throughout 1896 and 1897. The Crawfordsville Star was generally skeptical in reporting on unexplained phenomenon, but the testimony of two Montgomery County men they deemed credible changed their minds.
John Callahan, a farmer living around Dry Branch, told the Star: "You will remember that last Monday was a perfect day with the bluest sky without a speck of cloud or moisture. . . . I was washing my buggy . . . about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when I . . . saw Mr. Edward Grimes, a well-known farmer who resides . . . west of Crawfordsville. 'Do you see that?' exclaimed Mr. Grimes as he pointed upwards. 'I do that,' I replied, 'and what a queer thing it is.' 'Do you know what it is?' he exclaimed. 'That I do,' I replied, 'it's the air ship.' . . . And we looked at the queer thing till it faded out of sight away over to the northeast beyond the city."
Callahan described the vessel as flying twice as high as kites normally fly. "It was a dark looking object pointed like a fish," he said, "It had a fan like arrangement at the rear something like a fish's tail. It was much bigger in the middle than anywhere else."
Sounds like a Zeppelin to me. :smile:
Many people across the country swore to seeing an airship in American skies throughout 1896 and 1897. The Crawfordsville Star was generally skeptical in reporting on unexplained phenomenon, but the testimony of two Montgomery County men they deemed credible changed their minds.
John Callahan, a farmer living around Dry Branch, told the Star: "You will remember that last Monday was a perfect day with the bluest sky without a speck of cloud or moisture. . . . I was washing my buggy . . . about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when I . . . saw Mr. Edward Grimes, a well-known farmer who resides . . . west of Crawfordsville. 'Do you see that?' exclaimed Mr. Grimes as he pointed upwards. 'I do that,' I replied, 'and what a queer thing it is.' 'Do you know what it is?' he exclaimed. 'That I do,' I replied, 'it's the air ship.' . . . And we looked at the queer thing till it faded out of sight away over to the northeast beyond the city."
Callahan described the vessel as flying twice as high as kites normally fly. "It was a dark looking object pointed like a fish," he said, "It had a fan like arrangement at the rear something like a fish's tail. It was much bigger in the middle than anywhere else."
Sounds like a Zeppelin to me. :smile: