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G. A. Overocker. This airship was seen to come in over the lake and traverse the whole city for several days."
The same report with an Omaha date line of April 11th says: "A gentleman brags he has mystery airship
problem solved. He is an inventor and desires that he be allowed thirty-five acres to demonstrate his airship
for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. The gentleman didn't sign his name, but the reporter hopes the dilemma
will be settled by his promises."
The same report again, with a Fort Dodge, Iowa date line of April 11th says: "Old German residents say that
this very same type airship came over Germany thirty years before and the people were scared to death . . .
said the devil's army was approaching and these were his vehicles!"
The same report again, with a Milwaukee, Wisconsin date line of April 11th says: "The residents of
Milwaukee cannot be talked out of what they are seeing . . . thousands report the authenticity of a giant,
beautiful airship with colored lights . . . the police records are full of the story for they have been called to
answer what it is!"
Chicago Record, April 13, 1897: "_Airship Called A Hoax!_ Several notable citizens are known to have
caused airship scene . . . remains of paper and wood device in wreckage is in their yard. (No names given of
the 'notables')."
The device mentioned was supposed to have been in the wreckage, but another column in the same paper said:
"Airship seen in Rock Island, Illinois and Elkhart, Indiana!" How could it have been seen if it was wrecked?
Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897: "One chap knows all about the airship. He says: 'These thousands of people
didn't see a steel hull because this is the airship my friend has built in California and is on its way here to
Chicago. Although, I must say, he sure has made good time for he isn't due until next week and the hull is
paper, not steel. My friend, O. Chanute is on board too and I will introduce all of you to him when he arrives!'
This chap is the Secretary of the Chicago Aironautical Society, Max L. Harmar."
The same strange sightings were made at Sisterville, Virginia. In 1897 and other years, there were amazing
observances in Texas. The same old story, isn't it? Thousands of people in America observed this gigantic
space ship . . . authorities called it Venus or Alpha Orionis, or a balloon. A balloon that couldn't go against the
wind, yet the "airship" did just that. Notice where the report says: "Scientific minds have explained the whole
thing away by now." That's exactly what they have been trying to do since 1947 in the present saga. Also, the
idea that these are the "devil's" vehicles is thrown in as of the present. Not once a mention of their true nature!
The 1897 episode is very important: many space people were landed on Earth at that time. The Wright
Brothers brought in the Air Age a few miles away at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the same era. (It is strange
or is it?) that these brothers finally flew their controversial aircraft only a few years removed and a few short
miles from the location where the giant, lighted "airship" of 1897 had made one of its final appearances?
After 1897 man progressed more in the coming half-century than he had in the previous ten-thousand years.
Our progression is due, in part, to intellects coming here from outer space. Great men helped push men's
progress ahead hundreds of years in terms of advancement. Where it had taken thousands of years to elapse
between the discovery of the wheel and the bow, the greatest discoveries the world had ever seen followed
each other in rapid succession. The telephone, electric lights, the radio, wireless, the automobile, the airplane,
etc.
What actually took place in the 1800's was the first large public demonstration of spacecraft in the modern,
industrial age. After the Industrial Revolution there had to be an influx of certain Universal truths in order to
create a semblance between highly advanced technical skill and undeveloped spiritually. The space ships or
"airships" of the nineteenth century were the physical manifestation of that Great Influx!
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