Description

The great airship flap of 1896 to '97 began in November in the skies over Sacramento, with sightings of strange lights in the sky. The airship was next seen a few days later in the bay area over Oakland and San Francisco. Over the next few months there would be sightings across the country moving roughly west to east. Today, many people chalk the sightings up to yellow journalism as it was typical for papers of the time to make up sensationalist stories.

These images are a few of the illustrations from the *San Francisco Call*, one of the primary newspapers covering the incident.

Below are links to the full articles for those who might want to read in more detail and judge for themselves:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-ZBKStDlCMzxP2VSCo4GP6qLSAkxw…