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from Fate, June 1973
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Mystery Airships of the 1800's (Part 3 of 3)
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By Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman
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Part Three: Technology of that time does not explain these airships.
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Were extraterrestrial intelligences involved?
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An entirely different kind of story of an airship and its occupants
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was published in the _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ for April 19, 1897,
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in the form of a letter from W. H. Hopkins, a St. Louis resident
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whose job as general traveling agent for the Hartford Steam Boiler
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Inspection and Insurance Company had taken him to Missouri that
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week.
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The incident he describes had occurred, he said, on April 16:
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"...I was wandering through hills east of Springfield, Mo.,
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and coming to the brow of a hill overlooking a small clearing
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in the valley a short distance below me I saw a sight that
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rooted me to the spot... I could not believe my eyes at
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first... There in the clearing rested a vessel similar in
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outline to the airship shown in the _Post-Dispatch_ a few
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days ago and said to have been taken in Illinois...
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"Near the vessel was the most beautiful being I ever beheld.
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She was under medium size but of the most exquisite form and
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features such as would put to shame the forms as sculptured
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by the ancient Greeks. She was dressed in nature's garb
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(both were naked) and her golden hair, wavy and glossy, hung
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to her waist, unconfined except by a band of glistening
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jewels that bound it back from her forehead... She was
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plucking the little flowers that were just blossoming...
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with exclamations of delight in a language I could not
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understand.
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Her voice was like low, silvery bells and her laughter rang
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out like their chimes. In one hand she carried a fan of
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curious design that she fanned herself vigorously with,
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though to me the air was not warm and I wore an overcoat.
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"In the shade of the vessel lay a man of noble proportions and
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majestic countenance. His hair of dark auburn fell to his
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shoulders in wavy masses and his full beard... reached to
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his breast. He also was fanning himself... as if the heat
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oppressed him.
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"After gazing for a while I moved forward and the woman,
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hearing the rustle of the leaves, looked around. A moment
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she stood looking at me with wonder and astonishment in her
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beautiful blue eyes, then with a shriek of fear she rushed to
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the man who sprang to his feet, threw his arm around her and
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glared at me in a threatening manner.
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"I stopped and taking my handkerchief from my pocket waved it
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in the air. A few minutes we stood. I then spoke some words
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of apology for intruding but he seemed not to understand and
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replied in a threatening tone and words which I could not
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make out. I tried by signs to make him understand and
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finally he left her... and came toward me. I extended my
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hand. He looked at it a moment, astonishment in his dark-
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brown eyes, and finally he extended his own and touched mine.
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I took his and carried it to my lips. I tried by signs to
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make them understand I meant no harm. Finally his face
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lighted up with pleasure and he turned and spoke to the
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woman. She came hesitatingly forward, her form undulating
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with exquisite grace. I took her hand and kissed it
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fervently. The color rose to her cheeks and she drew it
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hastily away.
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"I asked them by signs where they came from but it was
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difficult to make them understand. Finally they seemed to do
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so and smiling, they gazed upwards for a moment, as if
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looking for some particular point, and then pointed upwards,
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pronouncing a word which to my imagination sounded like Mars.
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"I pointed to the ship and expressed my wonder in my
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countenance. He took me by the hand and led me toward it.
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In the side was a small door. I looked in. There was a
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luxurious couch covered with robes of the most beautiful
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stuff and texture such as I had never seen before.
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From the ceiling was suspended a curious ball from which
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extended a strip of metal which he struck to make it vibrate.
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Instantly the ball was illuminated with a soft white light
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which lit up the whole interior... most beautifully
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decorated...
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"At the stern was another large ball of metal, supported in a
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strong framework, and connected to the shaft of the propeller
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at the stern was a similar mechanism attached to each
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propeller and smaller balls attached to a point of metal that
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extended from each side of the vessel and from the prow.
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And connected to each ball was a thin strip of metal similar
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to the one attached to the lamp. He struck each one and when
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they vibrated the balls commenced to revolve with intense
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rapidity and did not cease till he stopped them with a kind
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of brake.
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As they revolved intense lights, stronger than any arc light
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I ever saw, shone out from the points at the sides and at the
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prow, but they were different colors. The one at the prow
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was an intense white light. On one side was green and on the
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other red.
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"The two had been examining me with the greatest curiosity in
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the meantime. They felt of my clothing, looked at my gray
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hair with surprise and examined my watch with the greatest
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wonder. Signs are poor medium to exchange ideas and
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therefore we could express but little.
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"I pointed to the balls attached to the propellers. He gave
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each of the strips of metal a rap, those attached to the
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propellers under the vessel first. The balls began to
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revolve rapidly and I felt the vessel begin to rise... I
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sprang out and none too soon, for the vessel rose as lightly
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as a bird and shot away like an arrow...
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The two stood laughing and waving their hands to me, she a
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vision of loveliness and he of manly vigor."
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Incredible? Certainly. A skeptical _Post-Dispatch_ reporter took
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the letter to Hopkins' employer, C. C. Gardner. After reading it
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carefully Gardner said, "That is Mr. Hopkins' handwriting and he is
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now in that territory. He was also at Springfield on the day
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named..." Asked if he believed Hopkins' story Gardner nodded
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vigorously.
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"Indeed I do," he said. "Strange as it may seem I am compelled to
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believe it. Mr. Hopkins is not a romancer. He never courts
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notoriety.
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What he writes he has seen and he believes it is his duty to make
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the facts public. He does not drink a drop. He has been connected
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with this company for a long time and is most reliable. What he
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writes you can publish as being absolutely true."
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Other employees in the firm spoke just as highly of Hopkins. The
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reporter also searched out Hopkins' wife and two daughters. "It's
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the truth if he wrote it," Mrs. Hopkins affirmed, "and I believe
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every word. Mr. Hopkins is a member of the Maple Avenue M. E.
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Church and has many friends... He undoubtedly wishes to acquaint his
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friends with the marvel he has seen and so uses the _Post-Dispatch_
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as the medium of communication.
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"Mr. Hopkins left home a week ago," she continued. "Before he left
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he ridiculed the idea of an airship having been seen. But now I
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suppose he is convinced it is not a myth." The other-worldly
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overtones of this incident hardly can be denied and it was not the
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only bizarre occurrence of the period.
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On the morning of April 15 a large airship moved northward slowly
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over Linn Grove, Iowa, and five men followed it about four miles
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into the country where it landed. But when the pursuers got within
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700 yards of the vessel it spread out four monstrous wings and flew
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away. As it rose its occupants tossed out two boulders "of unknown
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composition."
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The witnesses said the entities within the craft had the longest
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beards they had ever seen and a news account of the incident
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mentions "two queer-looking persons... who made desperate efforts to
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conceal themselves."
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The next day at Mount Vernon, Ill., the city's mayor focused his
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telescope on an "airship." What he saw was something that
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resembled, according to the _Saginaw Courier-Herald_,
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"the body of a huge man swimming through the air with an
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electric light at his back."
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It goes without saying that no theory which assumed terrestrial
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inventors were completely responsible for airship manifestations is
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going to account for a sighting like this one.
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From the _Houston Daily Post_ for April 28, 1897, comes the weirdest
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case of all: "Merkel, Tex., April 26 -- Some parties returning from
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church last night noticed a heavy object dragging along with a rope
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attached. They followed it until in crossing the railroad, it
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caught on a rail.
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Looking up they saw what they supposed was the airship. It was not
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near enough to get an idea of the dimensions. A light could be seen
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protruding from several windows; one bright light in front like the
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headlight of a locomotive. After some 10 minutes a man was seen
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descending the rope; he came near enough to be plainly seen.
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He wore a light-blue sailor suit, was small in size. He stopped
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when he discovered parties at the anchor and cut the ropes below him
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and sailed off in a northeast direction. The anchor is now on
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exhibition at the blacksmith shop of Elliott and Miller and is
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attracting the attention of hundreds of people."
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An ancient obscure Irish manuscript, _Speculum Regali_, records
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an incident that supposedly occurred in the year 956 A. D.: "There
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happened in the borough of Cloera, one Sunday while people were at
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mass, a marvel. In this town there is a church to the memory of
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St. Kinarus. It befell that a metal anchor was dropped from the
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sky, with a rope attached to it, and one of the sharp flukes caught
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in the wooden arch above the church door.
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The people rushed out of the church and saw in the sky a ship with
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men on board, floating at the end of the anchor cable, and they saw
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a man leap overboard and pull himself down the cable to the anchor
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as if to unhook it.
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"He appeared as if he were swimming in water."
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The folk rushed up and tried to seize him; but the bishop forbade
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the people to hold the man for fear it might kill him. The man was
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freed and hurried up the cable to the ship, where the crew cut the
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rope and the ship rose and sailed away out of sight. But the anchor
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is in the church as a testimony to this singular occurrence."
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And about 1200 A. D. an anchor plummeted out of the sky trailing a
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rope and got caught in a mound of stones near a church in Bristol,
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England. As a mob of churchgoers congregated at the scene, a
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"sailor" came skittering down the rope to free it.
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According to Gervase of Tilbury's _Otia Imperialia_ the crowd seized
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the intruder and "he suffocated by the mist of our moist atmosphere
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and expired." His unseen comrades cut the rope and left.
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We do not pretend to understand why an incident of this nature
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should continually recur but its occurrence in the midst of the 1897
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airship flap should prove conclusively that we are dealing with
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phenomena whose implications boggle the mind.
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Something astonishing, even incomprehensible, was taking place in
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19th-Century America. Whatever conclusions we draw from it are
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bound to be unbelievable and little more than informed guesses, for
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the gaps in the story are often greater than the substance.
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Throughout history innumerable groups, societies and cults have
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organized -- sometimes secretly, sometimes not -- around an idea
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that in one way or another they were in contact with "higher beings"
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who taught them and oversaw their lives. Almost every religion
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assumes its adherents were and are guided in this manner -- so do
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cults of magicians, spiritualists, flying saucer contactees and many
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others.
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Some gifted scientists and inventors have believed privately that
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non-human entities helped them in their work. In the 19th Century
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we believe man had neither the knowledge nor the means to build and
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fly heavier-than-air machines. We are equally sure that somebody
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was doing just that and according to most eyewitness reports, the
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pilots of the ships appeared to be ordinary mortals.
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Even if we reject Dellschau's accounts as senile raving we still
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must confront the "impossible" fact of the existence of airships and
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human occupants.
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Taking Dellschau seriously for the moment we might postulate that in
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both Germany and the United States, specifically in California and
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New York, a secret cult of brilliant scientists, technicians and
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inventors established contact with nonhuman agencies which told them
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how to construct aerial vessels but ordered them to keep the work
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under wraps. It is safe to assume the German and American branches
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were in communication and about 1848 some of the Germans immigrated
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to pool their efforts with those of the Americans.
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Perhaps 1848 was the crucial year. Perhaps the eastern branch of
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the society had decided to market the airship -- with or without the
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approval of their "superiors." An advertisement appeared on the
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east coast proclaiming that "R. Porter & Company" soon would have
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ships for air travel.
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For some unknown reason nothing came of the plan but by the 1850's
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many of the Germans had set up shop near Sonora, Calif., with the
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Americans and they were to spend the next several years conducting
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some incredible experiments.
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Dissension and dissatisfaction no doubt developed as the group came
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to realize they might never be allowed to give their "aeros" to the
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world. They may have hoped that someone -- Dellschau calls him "the
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right man" -- would arrive to defy the "superiors" and make the
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airship public property. (Not all that public, of course. The
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group stood to collect a fortune for their enterprise.)
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While airships were seen over America from time to time in the years
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before 1896, widespread sustained flights seem to have become
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necessary in that year, for whatever reason. To maintain secrecy in
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a period when airships for the first time would be observed widely
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the society agreed to plant a series of conflicting and therefore
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misleading claims. The ploy worked, of course.
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The "superiors," the nonhuman entities, had their own ships but they
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took care not to be seen while their human agents captured the
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headlines. Conceivably the human beings were little more than pawns
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in some cosmic game.
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The weirdest incidents -- those putting airships in a paranormal
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framework -- well may have been the important ones, while the more
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mundane sightings were designed only to distract attention while the
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nonhumans set about doing whatever they intended to accomplish.
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If Dellschau was lying, then we must revise our theory only to
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exclude the German and Sonora, Calif., headquarters. The existence
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of a secret society in contact with nonhumans still can be inferred
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from other evidence.
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To pursue our initial hypothesis to its conclusion, let us suppose
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that Dellschau retired to Houston late in the 19th Century, as in
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fact he did, depressed and discouraged because it looked as if the
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whole amazing business would remain a secret forever.
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Still intimidated by the "superiors" and afraid to speak directly,
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nonetheless he determined to leave the world a series of clues in
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the hope that someday a "Wonder Weaver" would find them and sew the
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entire dazzling fabric together.
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Too much to swallow, you say? But can you think of a better
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Vangard note...
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Let us suppose that early chemical researchers did not IN FACT
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find the lowest element in the Periodic Table, i.e. Hydrogen
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with an atomic number of 1 and a mass number of 1.008.
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According to Walter Russell, the elements follow a harmonic
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Octave Progression. The chart he developed to illustrate this
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progression shows 26 elements with a mass LESS than Hydrogen.
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We have made contact with both Pete Navarro and Jimmy Ward, the
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primary researchers into the Dellschau notebooks. Jimmy has
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confirmed that the mysterious N.B. gas was highly inflammable.
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Airships using this substance to provide primary lift, posted
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signs within the ship warning occupants of the explosive nature
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of the N.B. gas. Smoking and any open flame could cause the
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craft to be blown out of the air.
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If there are as many as 26 different gases with LESS MASS than
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Hydrogen, then these gases must necessarily be FAR LIGHTER THAN
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HYDROGEN, thus providing more lift per volume.
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Again, following this train of thought, it can easily be seen
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how this gas could lift much heavier payloads with less gas.
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An analogy : If a basketball were filled with N.B. gas, one
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could grab the ball and be lifted into space.
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Now, what if you took a pair of coveralls, sewed tubing into
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the material and filled it with this gas. You could so balance
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it against your natural weight that you could float like a
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balloon. Add wings or some form of thrust and you could fly
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quite freely in the open air.
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Of course, a backpack, scooter or light airship could also be
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built using the gas for lift. Propulsion is easy to achieve
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while lift is more difficult. If wings or ailerons were used,
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then a forward thrust would cause the ship to lift proportional
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to velocity than the natural buoyancy of the N.B. gas.
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The winged flying men as mentioned in the above article could
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thus be accounted for without the need for paranormal or extra-
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terrestrial speculations.
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Jimmy Ward has courteously sent us several articles written by
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Pete Navarro and himself. These will be placed on KeelyNet in
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the AERO series, so pay attention class, they are most
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interesting and could lead to some really wild PRACTICAL
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APPLICATIONS.
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