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Date:

November 24, 1896

Time:

Night

Place:

Placerville, California

Narratives:

"On the night of November 24, 1896, for instance, it [the airship] was reported at ... Placerville, ..."

"...lights were seen in the heavens passing ... over [Placerville] ... and [were] declared by several reputable citizens who saw it to be an airship [which] traveled against the wind; ..."

(The author teaches California history at a Fresno high school and has published several articles on California history topics.) [1]

Sources:

[1] "Close encounters of the earliest kind", article by Ron Genini, 2005.

Notes:

Insufficient information.

Explanation:

Insufficient data.

Counts:

Type of report:	Second hand from local newspaper.
Number of witnesses:	Several.
Number of named witnesses:	0.
Witnesses occupations:	Not indicated.
Type of location:	Not indicated.
Coordinates:	Lat. 38.729 N Long. -120.797 W
Coordinates precision:	5 kilometers.

Description of "UFO":	Lights.
Description of "manoeuvers":	Flight.
Reactions:	Not indicated.
Occupants:	None.
Occupants keywords:	N/A
Communication:	N/A
Language:	N/A
Content:	N/A

Daylight/nocturnal:	Nocturnal.
Weather:	Not indicated.
Observation devices:	None.

Strangeness:	Middle.
Reliability:	Low.

Explanation(s) at the time:	.

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