Victorian era 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...

Five-panel Victorian-era intelligence dossier collage showing the 1882 Great Saucer observed by Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers, the 1880 Persian Gulf spinning luminous wheels seen from the steamship Patna, the 1880 Madisonville Kentucky blue fire entity encounter, the 1884 Nebraska prairie crash retrieval with glowing machinery, and the 1887 Cape Race Atlantic fire sphere rising from the ocean against the Siberian

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1880 – 1889:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: December 27, 2015 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1880 – 1889:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The 1880s are the decade the modern world began to wire itself together — telegraph lines crossing...