Between 1896 and 1897, hundreds of sightings were reported of strange airships over the United States and Europe, years before the Wright Brothers' first flight. Were these mysterious airships alien spacecraft? Or the work of clever human inventors? And were they perhaps the work of a secret society of aviators from decades earlier, who were all part of a vast conspiracy?
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Notes:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097CJJT72/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
http://www.auroratexas.gov/board-of-commisions/historic-preservation/ned/
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Aurora-UFO-crash-remains-a-Texas-alien-mystery-5410990.php
https://texashillcountry.com/1897-aurora-texas-ufo-alien-buried-cemetery/
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yellow-journalism-the-fake-news-of-the-19th-century
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/charles-a-a-dellschau-dreams-of-flying-the-amazing-story-of-an-airship-club-that-might-never-have-existed/274170/
https://www.houstonpress.com/news/secrets-of-the-sonora-aero-club-6567727
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Dexter Britain, The Tea Party
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