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Date:

November 21, 1896

Time:

Night

Place:

Bay City, San Francisco, California

Narratives:

Apparently [the airship [l'engin seen in Sacramento on November 17, 1896], it was not such a swift bird, for the mysterious craft did not appear over the Bay City until the night of Saturday the 21 and then only in "a shy and demure manner."

(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:

Could be anything, for example Venus.

Counts:

Type of report:	Article by historian.
Number of witnesses:	Not indicated.
Number of named witnesses:	0.
Witnesses occupations:	Not indicated.
Type of location:	Not indicated.
Coordinates:	Lat. 38.03 Long. -121.96
Coordinates precision:	10 kilometers

Description of "UFO":	Not indicated.
Description of "manoeuvers":	Not indicated.
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:	None.
Reliability:	Low.

Explanation(s) at the time:	Not indicated.

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