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This article was published in the daily newspaper The Daily Journal, Battle Creek, Michigan, Thursday, April 8, 1897.
Warning: the airship stories must not be taken at face value as "UFO sightings." Evaluation of such stories is under way here.
Omaha, Neb., April 8. -– An airship was seen sailing through space by hundreds of people in this city Tuesday night [April 6, 1897]. The vessel appeared to be ninety feet in length, elliptical in form, and carried a bright light in front and a red light in the rear.
