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SUBJECT: SPACESHIP CRASH IN 1884 ? FILE: UFO2425
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On June 6, 1884, as a band of cowboys rounded up cattle in remote Dundy
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County, Nebraska, a blazing object streaked out of the sky and crashed some
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distance from them, leaving (according to a contemporary newspaper account)
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"fragments of cog-wheels and other pieces of machinery . . . glowing with heat
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so intense as to scorch the grass for a long distance around each fragment."
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The light was so intense that it blinded one of the witnesses.
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This incredible event was recorded two days later in Lincoln's Daily State
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Journal, which printed a dispatch from Benkelman, Nebraska, by an anonymous
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correspondent. The correspondent wrote that prominent local citizens had gone
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to the site, where the metal now had cooled. He reported, "The aerolite, or
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whatever it is, seems to be about 50 or 60 feet long, cylindrical, and about
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10 or 12 feet in diameter." A State Journal editor remarked that this must have
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been an "air vessel belonging originally to some other planet."
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But on June 10 an anticlimactic dispatch came from Benkelman. In a heavy
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rainstorm the remains had "melted, dissolved by the water like a spoonful of
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salt." The obvious message: Take the story with a grain of sodium chloride.
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The State Journal, redfaced, dropped it then and there.
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In the 1960s a copy of the first newspaper article resurfaced, and reporters,
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historians, and ufologists rushed to Dundy County. Lifelong residents of the
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area assured them no such thing had ever happened. Later, even after the
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telltale followup dispatch was uncovered, one humorless author theorized that
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the "storm was artificially created so that a UFO concealed within the clouds
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could retrieve the wreckage of the crashed UFO."
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