[HN Gopher] The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)
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The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)
Author : samclemens
Score : 51 points
Date : 2023-07-02 15:46 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| qwertyuiop_ wrote:
| They have been reported in Europe at during that period. Here are
| some reports from all over the country.
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| https://www.americanghostwalks.com/articles/1897-milwaukee-a...
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| https://www.wildquincy.com/blog/1897-quincy-mystery-airship-...
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| https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/dark-histories-49725/phantom...
| rintakumpu wrote:
| Chums of Chance.
| kencausey wrote:
| I'm not sure why this was posted. Perhaps it was due to recent
| blogging by Nick Pelling on the subject at
| https://www.ciphermysteries.com/ ? There are quite a few entries
| now over a period of months that started from a reported cipher
| at Roswell.
| zgluck wrote:
| _On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
| That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
| reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that
| gratifies one 's intellectual curiosity._
| kencausey wrote:
| I didn't mean that it shouldn't have been posted. I really
| meant to say something like 'why this was posted now.'
| Magi604 wrote:
| I'm seeing an uptick of public interest in UFOs in my channels.
| I'm guessing it was sparked by Tucker Carlson talking about UFO
| coverups during one of his recent Twitter shows.
| Loughla wrote:
| Why is the cynic in me absolutely sure all the UFO coverage
| and news and Senate things are just a way to get more funding
| for the space force?
| kjkjadksj wrote:
| DOD has no issue securing funds no matter what they are
| squawking about in congress. For example, they ran a secret
| war in Cambodia during the Vietnam war that only came to
| light after a leak. I imagine there are probably hundreds
| or thousands of such campaigns we will never learn of.
| hindsightbias wrote:
| [flagged]
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| Such a weird phenomenon. Hard to say if they were UFOs seen
| through the eyes of the 1800s.
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| Then on the other hand I find the classic "they wouldn't have
| been able to understand what they saw" theory unlikely because an
| airship made of shiny metal or something else would have been
| distinguishable.
| photonerd wrote:
| Honestly sounds like it was a hydrogen airship & some flights
| of fancy by the--not known for their intellectual rigor--local
| writers
| Tanoc wrote:
| The "flapping fins" and "two great mugs thrust out from each
| side" certainly seem like ailerons and ballast. And the
| mentions of it going at "a great rate of speed" sound like
| what happens to dirigibles when they get caught broadside in
| side drafts. What's interesting is the mention of a metal
| prow. Later dirigibles had docking tips and lightning rods on
| their noses, but a metal prow seems like it would cause a lot
| of issues with center of lift. My only guess is it was some
| kind of lifting surface and the entire craft was an aerostat
| and not a true lighter-than-air craft.
| kjkjadksj wrote:
| The great speed referred to for some in this article was
| estimated at 250mph. For someone in 1897 that might have
| just been shorthand for incomprehensibly fast. These
| accounts feel a lot more similar to the navy pilot accounts
| of the pill/cigar shaped craft they've been tracking, which
| are also capable of a rapid change in speed along a new
| vector.
| gunapologist99 wrote:
| Or a bunch of hot air... in an enclosed space..
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