Airshipcat:

Date:	November 22, 1896
Time:	Between 06:00 p.m. and 07:00 p.m.
Place:	Folsom, California

Narratives:

AT FOLSOM ALSO
The Aerial Tourists Took a Shy at the Big Dam

A telephone message from Folsom last evening stated that the air-ship also passed near that town between 6 and 7 o'clock, going in a southerly direction. Afterward it tacked to the southeast and disappeared in a dense cloud.

When seen at Folsom it seemed to be only a few hundred feet above the earth, but the night was so dark that the body of the ship could not be distinguished - nothing but one bright light. [sdr1]

Sources:

[1] Article in the newspaper Sacramento Daily Record-Union, Sacramento, California, USA, page 2, columns 1-4, November 23, 1896.

Notes:

Insufficient information.

Explanation:

Possibly astronomical.

Counts:

Type of report:	Newspaper.
Number of witnesses:	Not indicated.
Number of named witnesses:	0.
Witnesses occupations:	Not indicated.
Type of location:	Not indicated.
Coordinates:	Lat. 38.678N Long. -121.175W
Coordinates precision:	10 kilometers.

Description of "UFO":	One bright light.
Description of "manoeuvers":	Flight under clouds.
Reactions:	Not indicated.
Occupants:	None.
Occupants keywords:	N/A.
Communication:	N/A.
Language:	N/A.
Content:	N/A.

Daylight/nocturnal:	Nocturnal.
Weather:	Cloud.
Observation devices:	Not indicated.

Strangeness:	Low.
Reliability:	Low.

Explanation(s) at the time:	Airship.

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