19th century UFO

Five-panel turn-of-century intelligence dossier collage showing the November 1896 Oakland California streetcar passengers witnessing the Great Airship, Alexander Hamilton's April 1897 Leroy Kansas sworn affidavit scene with the 300-foot cigar craft and heifer on red cable, the April 1897 Merkel Texas rope-descent occupant event, the April 1897 Aurora Texas crash site with townspeople gathered, and the November 1896 San Francisco mass sighting witnessed by the Deputy Secretary of State and District Attorney

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1896 – 1899:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: May 18, 2019 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1896 – 1899:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The years 1896 through 1899 are where the anomalous record becomes mass media. For the first time...

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Three-panel intelligence archive illustration showing the July 1836 Szeged Hungary urban CE-III with a structured disc and occupants hovering over a crowded city square casting a shadow on cobblestones, the October 1843 Warwick Ontario Canada encounter with three white motionless humanoid figures sailing in single file at treetop level over a field laborer, and the 1837 Scarborough England fire ball encounter with Mr. White observing undulating orange balls of light while his lookout hides behind a tree

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1835 – 1844: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: May 2, 2019 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1835 – 1844: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The decade from 1835 to 1844 produced some of the most structurally specific anomalous reports of...

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Three-panel intelligence archive illustration showing Captain Banner's 1870 Lady of the Lake mid-Atlantic structured disc observation, the 1879 Persian Gulf spinning luminous wheels observed from the ship Vultur, and the January 1879 Woodseaves Shropshire black humanoid encounter on a bridge at night

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1870 – 1879: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: January 24, 2016 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1870 – 1879: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The 1870s represent one of the most operationally diverse decades in the nineteenth-century anomalous record —...

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Five-panel Gilded Age intelligence dossier collage showing the 1891 Crawfordsville Indiana headless aerial creature observed by hundreds of witnesses, the 1890 Nankin China court painting of the Shu Que bridge fireball, the 1893 Central Park New South Wales Australia disc landing with witness paralyzed by a directed beam, the 1893 Leslie Kentucky sky filled with thousands of shape-shifting colored discs, and the 1893 HMS Carolina North China Sea massed aerial light formation

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1890 – 1895:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: January 20, 2016 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1890 – 1895:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The years 1890 through 1895 sit at one of the most dramatic technological thresholds in human history....

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Three-panel intelligence archive illustration showing the 1845 Brig Victoria Mediterranean encounter with three lights rising from the sea, the 1846 La Salette France luminous entity apparition witnessed by two children, and the 1847-1848 Saratov Russia anomalous strangers arriving after aerial columns of fire

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1845 – 1849: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: January 20, 2016 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1845 – 1849: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The five years spanning 1845 to 1849 produced one of the most geographically dispersed anomalous activity...

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