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and this color combination is now predominant in Saucer sightings of to-day. The report goes on to state that<br />
the power source must have been attached to the light for it dimmed as the ship went up and away. It is known<br />
today that the speed of Saucers has a great deal to do with the color changes.<br />
Chicago Record, April 3, 1897: "_Flying Machine Now in Michigan!_ People of Galesburg saw a brilliant<br />
white light approach from the SW . . . object appeared large and black with a crackling, sharp sound. It<br />
hovered close to the Earth. Reporters state that they heard human voices from aloft . . . from the airship! When<br />
the ship went off, it seemed to be tipped with flame. (Local comment was that the airship had caught fire!)<br />
Time: 10.00 p. m."<br />
Chicago Record, April 6, 1897: "_Airship Now Into Illinois!_ Seen first at 8:00 p. m. in NW . . . . large red<br />
light. Suggestions of balloon are refuted because airship flew at tremendous speed into a high wind."<br />
Chicago Record, April 7, 1897: "Airship seen many times last few weeks. Large numbers of people first hand<br />
witnesses. One time, a motorman of a trolley actually stopped his vehicle so he and passengers could look at<br />
the wonderful sight . . . just ahead of his trolley, the ship seemed about six-hundred feet up and about<br />
one-hundred feet long. The motorman, Mr. Newville, says it was ellipsoid with large projections fore and aft.<br />
There was a bright headlight in front and a red light in the rear."<br />
From Hastings, Nebraska, came the report that the "airship" had been seen in Grand Island, Oxford, York and<br />
Kearney. Scoffers claimed these people had seen Venus, yet all the reporters were people of substance and not<br />
given to reporting spurious stories. This all happened in 1897, but we could date it 1956 and it would be right<br />
up to date. To-day, officialdom tries to explain much of it away as "natural" phenomena. Airplanes hadn't<br />
been invented in 1897 so they explained it away as balloons or Venus . . . today they say it's balloons, Venus,<br />
or airplanes . . . two-thousand years ago they might have called it "Apollo", or "chariots of fire", or "wheels<br />
within wheels".<br />
Chicago Record, April 9, 1897: "_Airship Seen In Iowa!_ Between West Liberty and Cedar Rapids appeared<br />
a bright light . . . giant airship . . . steel body. When leaving it appeared to be a large star weaving about and<br />
stars do not weave around the heavens!"<br />
Chicago Record, April 10, 1897: "_Airship Sighted Over Chicago And Evanston!_ People are tripping over<br />
themselves these days trying to get the best look at this green and white-lighted giant air-ship that has had the<br />
people all over the mid-west in a dither. Some people think the end of the world is near . . . Scientific minds<br />
have explained the whole thing away by now. The mystery will surely be cleared up in a few days. Mr. Carr,<br />
an aeronaut, has built an experimental balloon and is financed by a New York theatrical wig manufacturing<br />
company . . . Mr. Carr states his machine works marvelously, but cannot go against the wind . . . power is<br />
storage battery with propeller! Professor Hough of Northwestern University and head astronomer of the<br />
observatory stated when asked to train his telescope on the object: 'I am busy with sights on Jupiter and it<br />
would be too troublesome to change to look at this new thing.' The next day, Hough said: 'The thousands of<br />
people that are reporting this so-called strange airship are in reality looking at Alpha Orionis in the<br />
Constellation Orion!"<br />
This great scientist was too "busy with sights on Jupiter . . . it would be too troublesome . . ." Too troublesome<br />
to view for the first time a ship from another world! Although he refused to look at the object he seemed to<br />
know exactly what thousands of other people were seeing! How would he know since he only had the<br />
advantage of total ignorance?<br />
Chicago Record, April 12, 1897: "_Giant Airship Continues Over Chicago And Environs!_ People all over<br />
the city are in an uproar, and while everyone is viewing this grand sight on the south side, two amateur<br />
photographers who are news dealers in Rogers Park, looked out and saw the airship. Their photo shows the<br />
north Western Railway station and above it the purported airship! The photographers are Walter McCann and<br />
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