| Date: | November 18, 1896 |
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| Time: | None |
| Place: | Oak Park, Sacramento, California |
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“... above Oak Park ...” [mbd1] |
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“... on November 18 [1896] a machine flies successively over the towns of ... and Oakland;” [pmr1] |
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“November 18 [1896]: An object similar to that observed the day before, dark, equipped with a projector and 4 large wings which seemed actuated by compressed air passes above Oak Park and...” [jbu1] |
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Jerome Clark indicates that inhabitants of Oak Park, a suburb of Sacramento, told journalists at the time when one spoke about the observation of the next day, that they saw an aerial object making a turn above the city and leaving a trail of smoke. [jck1] |
Sparse information.
Unexplained or hoax.
| Type of report: | Second hand from unspecified newspaper. |
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| Number of witnesses: | Several or many. |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0. |
| Witnesses occupations: | Not indicated. |
| Type of location: | Not indicated. |
| Coordinates: | Lat. 38°31'N Long. 121°30'O |
| Coordinates precision: | 10 kilometers. |
| Description of "UFO": | Object leaving a smoke trail. |
| Description of "manoeuvers": | Turn in the sky. |
| Reactions: | Not indicated. |
| Occupants: | None. |
| Occupants keywords: | N/A. |
| Communication: | N/A. |
| Language: | N/A. |
| Content: | N/A. |
| Daylight/nocturnal: | Not indicated. |
| Weather: | Not indicated. |
| Observation devices: | None. |
| Strangeness: | Medium. |
| Reliability: | Low. |
| Explanation(s) at the time: | |
