This page is a record of human developed airships. Keely did much with acoustic levitation and air-ships. This page has nothing whatsoever to do with "alien ufos" or whatever they are. New data will be added to this page as it comes in.
1850s - Sonora Aero Club; Sonora and Yosemite, California
1850s - Charles A. A. Dellschau, Sonora, California and Houston, Texas
1862-1865: Solomon Andrews; AERON
1893 - Keely and His Discoveries published detailing Keely's air-ship and levitation experiments.
1893 - GravitoElectroMagnetism, 1893, book/paper by Oliver Heaviside
1894 - John Jacob Astor IV wrote "A Journey in Other Worlds,"
1896 - F. Lewis Clark, airship story of November 22, 1896
1897 - Samuel Tillman & Amos Dolbear pilot and land an airship in Stephenville, Texas April 19, 1897, cigar-shaped, 60 ft. long, wheeled, electric powered
1898 - John Jacob Astor IV, pallbearer for Keely.
1914 - John Jacob Astor IV dies on Titanic.
1940s - Nazi Bell
1965 - Kecksburg, Pennsylvania incident
1980s - NASA works with Acoustic Levitation
PEOPLE
- Tosh Wilson, Sonora Aero Club, 1850s
- Amos Dolbear, PhD, Paris Expo 1891 & Crystal Palace 1882, preceded Bell, Marconi & Hertz
- Col. Samuel Tillman, US Army Officer, chemistry, West Point; founder Cosmos Club
- Willard H, Wilson, 1897 airship new reports
- Hiram Wilson, Willard’s son, 1897 reports
- 'Professor’ Hiram Wilson, 1950s
- (FNU) Wilson - 1950s to 1990s
- Larry Wilson, friend of Victor Hansen who spoke well of him in the 1980s. Both friends to Otis T. Carr.
- Otis T. Carr
- Walter Bosley, NYMZA - NJMZa, empireofthewheel.blogspot.com, Secret Space Program Conference, 2015, Bastrop TX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijA7atHnm8M
I do not have a source for this material.
Today in UFO History - On today’s date 125 years ago, Friday, April 9, 1897, during the 1896-1897 wave of “Mystery Airship” sightings across the United States, a mysterious Unidentified Flying Object was observed in the sky above the city of Chicago, Illinois.
?Note: The Mystery Airship sightings of 1896-1897 predate the invention of any known power-driven aircraft.
?On Friday, April 9, 1897, a large crowd of people gathered along Oakley Street on the North Side of Chicago & watched what was described by various witnesses as a “red light,” a “manifestation,” & or an “airship.” Eventually thousands of people saw the mystery airship in Chicago. Later that evening, sightings also were reported at Evanston, Illinois; Lake Mills, Wisconsin; & Wausau, Wisconsin - creating the impression that a single mystery object was traveling in a northwesterly direction.
?From the April 10, 1897 edition of the Chicago Record: Airship Sighted Over Chicago & Evanston! People are tripping over themselves these days trying to get the best look at this green & white-lighted giant air-ship that has had the people all over the mid-west in a dither. Some people think the end of the world is near... Scientific minds have explained the whole thing away by now. The mystery will surely be cleared up in a few days. Mr. Carr, an æronaut, has built an experimental balloon & is financed by a New York theatrical wig manufacturing company... Mr. Carr states his machine works marvelously, but cannot go against the wind... power is storage battery with propeller! Professor Hough of Northwestern University & head astronomer of the observatory stated when asked to train his telescope on the object: ‘I am busy with sights on Jupiter & it would be too troublesome to change to look at this new thing.’ The next day, Hough said: ‘The thousands of people that are reporting this so-called strange airship are in reality looking at Alpha Orionis in the Constellation Orion!’
This great scientist was too ‘busy with sights on Jupiter... it would be too troublesome...’ Too troublesome to view for the first time a ship from another world! Although he refused to look at the object, he seemed to know exactly what thousands of other people were seeing! How would he know since he only had the advantage of total ignorance?
?From the April 12 edition of the Chicago Record: Giant Airship Continues Over Chicago & Environs! People all over the city are in an uproar, & while everyone is viewing this grand sight on the south side, two amateur photographers who are news dealers in Rogers Park, looked out & saw the airship. Their photo shows the North Western Railway station & above it the purported airship! The photographers are Walter McCann & G. A. Overocker. This airship was seen to come in over the lake & traverse the whole city for several days.
?The same report with an Omaha date-line of April 11th states: “A gentleman brags he has mystery airship problem solved. He is an inventor & 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 states: “Old German residents say that this very same type airship came over Germany thirty years before & the people were scared to death... said the Devil’s army was approaching & these were his vehicles!”
?The same report again, with a Milwaukee, Wisconsin date line of April 11th states: 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!
?From the April 12 edition of the Chicago Tribune: 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 & 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 & the hull is paper, not steel. My friend, O. Chanute is on board too & I will introduce all of you to him when he arrives!’ This chap is the Secretary of the Chicago Æronautical Society, Max L. Harmar.
?The photograph depicts a newspaper artist’s rendition of photographers Walter McCann & G. A. Overocker photographing the above-mentioned mystery airship over the North Western Railway Station at Rogers Park near Chicago. This image, which is entitled “The Air Ship As Photographed in Chicago,” appeared in the April 13, 1897 edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, which credits the Chicago Times-Herald for the illustration.
See Also
air-ship
17.15 - Theory of Vibratory Lift for Air-ships
Latent Force and Theory of Vibratory Lift for Airships
Air-ship model
Figure 19.17 - Keelys Air-ship
THEORY OF VIBRATORY LIFT FOR AIRSHIPS