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- From: Pete.Porro@f414.n154.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Pete Porro)
- Subject: GREAT AIRSHIP HOAX
- Date: 31 Dec 93 17:12:32 GMT
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- For those who have asked about the Airship Wave of 1896-97, and the
- mysterious sighting, including a classic cattle abduction by the craft.
- I think you will find the "rest of the story" interesting. This is the
- part that gets forgotten or ignored.
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- "UFO's and the Limits of Science" Ronald D. Story 1981, Pages 39-40
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- Forty-six years later, the tale was finally revealed as a hoax.
- The expose' appeared in a small Kansas weekly, the Buffalo
- Enterprise, in it's January 28, 1943, issue. The obscure article
- was discovered later by UFO writer-researcher Jerome Clark, who
- told the full story in the February,1977, issue of Fate
- magazine. The first breakthrough came when the Buffalo
- Enterprise reprinted Hamilton's tale, which brought a letter
- from Ed F. Hudson, who in 1897 was an editor for the Yates
- Center Farmer's Advocate. Hudson wrote:
- "I had just bought and installed a little gasoline engine, the
- first I believe to come to Yates Center, using it to run my
- machinery replacing the hand-power on the old Country Campbell
- press and kicking the job presses. I invited many of my friends
- into the back shop to see the engine work. Hamilton was one of
- them. He Exclaimed, 'Now they can fly', hence the airship story
- was made up. After we had published it, the story was copied in
- many of the largest newspapers in the country, England, France
- and Germany, some illustraing it with pen-drawn (images by)
- their staff artists. There were also hundreds of inquiries from
- every part of the globe. Soon afterwards there came the various
- experiments in flight, but I have always maintained that Alex
- Hamilton was the real inventor of human flight."
-
- Page 41
- (Ethel L. Shaw, who claims to have been present when Mr. Hamilton
- came home and told them the airship story.)
- "It seems there were a few men round about who had formed a club
- which the called 'Ananias" (Liar's Club). They would get
- together once in a while to see which one could tell the biggest
- story they'd concocted since their last meeting. Well, to my
- knowledge, the club soon broke up after the 'airship and cow'
- story. I guess that one had topped them all and the Hamilton
- family went down in history."
- And so they did, at least among the classics of UFO hoaxdom.
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- From: marin@ccr.jussieu.fr (Emmanuel MARIN 43.29.61.54 p45)
- Subject: Re : Great Airship Hoax
- Date: 4 Jan 94 22:16:21 GMT
- Organization: CCR - Universites Paris VI/VII - Paris - France
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- There's one thing I don't understand about the text Pete Porro posted :
- In 1896, flight with a steerable ballon (propelled by an engine)
- already existed for more than 10 years. I have even seen
- a drawing of a steerable balloon similar to those allegedly seen
- in the 1896 Wave, in a scientific French book written in ... 1888.
- ("L'Atmosphere", by Camille Flammarion).
- So can someone explain me why it seems this text supposes there have
- been no human flight bfore ?
-
- Is your text itself an hoax ? :) ?
-
- Or is it yet another proff that for the US citizens, there is no life
- outside America ? :) ?
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-
- Emmanuel Marin
- marin@ccr.jussieu.fr
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