From: Michael Christol <mchristo@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:19:55 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 13:53:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Aircraft/UFO Encounters Prior to 1942


>Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 10:41:29 -0700
>From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Aircraft/UFO Encounters Prior to 1942

>Hi Mike and all:

>   Title should read....Encounters....sorry.

Ah, Jan...I don't care about title.  <G> If I did, I would
have signed my message to you...Sir Michael Christol, ESQ...<g>

>> I have a video interview with a gentleman in Colorado by the name
>> of Lloyd Arnold (now deceased) which was made back in the late 80's
>> in which he describes a sighting of a derigible shaped object during
>> the day, at a park.  He said that there were many people who saw
>> it, but they thought it was an early air ship.  The date of the
>> sighting was 1915.
>> When the thing left, it moved out very quickly, thus he said he
>> knew that it was not an airship of German or American manufacture.

>> Could this have been the same type of airship which was seen over
>> the South East part of the US in the late 1890's?  It is something
>> to give thought to.

>Memory does not serve too well here.  When I was in Colorado,
>Barry Greenwood told me I should check a Colorado newspaper
>for a 1917 item. (He too had got the date from a video--
>"Sightings" in this case.)

>I checked and found an article about lights being sighted
>outside of town at night.  Greenwood told me that was very
>interesting, but not the correct story.  I will try to dig it
>out and post it.  Never did find the other article.

>As to the 1915 article, perhaps, we are thinking about two
>different things. I think "my" finding is different from
>your account.

Yes, it sounds so.  There are two years difference and the
one I am referring to is allegedly a day sighting.  I don't
recall the month being mentioned, but based on his story,
I think it was in the late spring or early summer.

I will review my video tape and see if I can offer more
conclusive information.  I will apprise you in a later
message.

>>From the 1880's on there are reports of strange airships.

>Dr. Thomas Bullard deals with these UFO waves in Jerry Clark's
>third volume of his encyclopedia.  There were airship sightings
>in Russia and Poland in 1892-4, of course, the 1896-7 wave, and
>scattered sightings after until the next big world-wide wave in
>1908-10. (BTW late 1909-10 were big in Kentucky and Tennessee.)
>Then, there were unusual sightings in 1912-15, especially the
>"Scareship" wave, (but there are indications that these were
>reported over a much wider area.)  During the World War I era
>there were again reports from various locations.

>After that, everything seems to die down.  There is not much
>activity reported through the 1920s and 1930s except the "ghost
>aeroplanes" in Scandinavia.

>Interestingly enough, there seems to be sightings of "ghost
>Zeppelins" or dirigibles in the 20s and 30s.  Here is a
>summary of one:

>Feb (or early March) 1938; South of Arbuckle Texas; --- ;
>Hugh gray airship with girdle of windows and no under carriage.
>The windows reflected the setting sun. Without changing
>altitude or attitude it shot away sideways and disappeared.
>Letter to USAF 1952-06-18 in "LIFE magazine file." (Max File)

>After that the "foo-fighters" in World War II.  Various
>sightings worldwide in 1946, especially the "ghost rockets."

>The Psycho-sociological theorists should have a field day with
>these reports.

>Best regards,

>Jan Aldrich
>Project 1947


Thanks for the Historical view.  I will save it as a
file and place it in my History file dir.

Hang in there Jan....good work.
Say Hi to Ed Stewart for me.

REgards, Mike