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Saturday 8 April 2023 · 1 report
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The Great Airship Flap of 1896-97 - Images from the San Francisco Call
📍 Sacramento, California, United States
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 l…
Monday 10 July 2023 · 1 report
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Jim Marrs on the many UFO sightings in Texas in 1896/1897.
📍 Texas, United States
The aleged AURORA crash brought up so much discussion yesterday, so i decided to share this. This will be the Last post considering Aurora, before half oh the Community …
Wednesday 1 May 2024 · 1 report
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1897 UFO Crash in Aurora, Texas | "Martian pilot" was buried at the local cemetery
📍 Aurora, Colorado, United States · Cigar · 🎥
It's 1897 and a cigar shaped craft crashes into a windmill in Aurora Texas. The pilot is killed and buried in the Aurora Cemetery. Or is it all a hoax perpetrated in an…
Tuesday 8 October 2024 · 1 report
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Announcing our new r/UFOs Community Awards!
📍 Roswell, New Mexico, United States · Saucer
Reddit is rolling out community specific awards soon to a few select subreddits and we have been selected as one of the first communities to launch them. The mod team wo…
Monday 9 December 2024 · 1 report
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Mysterious "aircraft" that pop up out of nowhere, but represent the next stage of technological advancement? Hmm where have I seen this before?
📍 Southwestern USA · Other
For anyone curious, there was a wave of mysterious "Airships" that swarmed the Southwestern USA in the late 1800s and no one knows why? (to the best of my knowledge) The…
Monday 23 December 2024 · 1 report
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What would that actually be? Dallas, Texas – 12/23/ 2024
📍 Dallas, Texas, United States · Other · 🎥
At first I thought it was a rather unusual cloud shape, then I noticed that it was moving to the right and starting to take shape. It then seemed to take on the form of …
Friday 21 February 2025 · 1 report
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Here's an early dirigible mothership being built in secret on the far side of the Bay from San Francisco and Oakland. November 23, 1896. The site is an Air Force radar station now.
📍 San Francisco, California, United States · Cigar
Time: Daytime, August, 1896 Location: Mt. Tamalpais, California Reported in the San Francisco Call, November 23, 1896 A hunter claims to have been following a wounded de…
Sunday 30 November 2025 · 1 report
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Yes, there already is proof...NASA Engineer John F. Schuessler shared scientific results that prove an actual anomalous piece of metal was recovered from a UFO that crashed at Aurora, Texas in 1897.
📍 Aurora, Colorado, United States · 🎥
The analysis of a metallic fragment discovered in 1973 near Aurora was tested in an aerospace laboratory known for analyzing aircraft and spacecraft materials. The findi…
Wednesday 2 September 2026 · 1 report
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The Golden-Haired, Bare-Skinned Alien of 1897
📍 Springfield, Missouri, United States · Saucer
*At the height of America's Mystery Airship craze, a respected traveling salesman claimed that he encountered the occupants of a strange flying machine in the Missouri c…
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