Airshipcat:

Date:

November 24, 1896

Time:

Night

Place:

San Jose, California

Narratives:

"Tuesday, December 24 [sic, November 24, 1896]" ... "The mysterious air ship travels in ... San Jose ..." [1]

"The towns where airship sighting have been reported after November 23 [1896] include ... San José, ..." [2]

"But on November 22, the "mystery airship" came back. It ... appeared over ... and San Jose as well." [3]

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

(The author teaches California history at a Fresno high school and has published several articles on California history topics.) [4]

"On Tuesday the twenty-fourth [of November 1896], ... and San Jose were being visited." [5]

Sources:

[1] "La chronique des OVNIS", book by Michel Bougard, Delarge publisher, 1977.
[2] Article by Loren Gross in "The mammoth encyclopedia of extraterrestrial encounters", compiled by Ronald D. Story, Robinson publisher, 2001.
[3] "The Amazing Airship of 1896", article by James L. Cambias.
[4] "Close encounters of the earliest kind", article by Ron Genini, 2005.

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

Notes:

Insufficient information.

Explanation:

Could be anything.

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