Are Aliens real?
I was looking up an alien story about a craft that crashed in Texas in the late 1800s and found this story. Col Shaw
In the late 1890s, strange airships started being spotted sailing across the country’s skies. While lighter-than-air airships had been around since the 1850s, their capabilities were far more limited, and they were not nearly as big as those being observed. Witnesses described the ship, or ships, as being 150 to 200 feet long and moving at speeds of roughly 135 to 150 mph. Airships at the time were generally smaller and only moved at speeds of around 5 to 7 mph.
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The first sighting occurred in November of 1896 in Sacramento, California, when hundreds of witnesses observed a steady light attached to some kind of large vessel pass across the sky overhead. Some said they could hear voices singing from the ship. One witness, R.L. Lowery, told the news that he could hear a man issuing out orders, “Throw her up higher; she’ll hit the steeple!” According to Lowery, the airship had a cigar-shaped body with wheels at the side and appeared to be powered by two men seated on a bicycle-like frame.
Over the next six months, the sightings moved eastward across the country, with reports as far as Chicago. In total, there were approximately 150 sightings in roughly 20 states. Then, in April of 1897, just as suddenly as they had started, the sightings came to an abrupt stop. While many accounts can be written off as hoaxes, mass hysteria or even the misidentification of astral phenomena, such as comets and meteors, a handful of accounts were credible enough to generate some, er, lift.
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For the most part, witnesses describe the occupants of the airships not as human but as human-like. The first possible evidence for little green men occurred just a few days after the Sacramento sighting, 50 miles north in a town called Stockton. Colonel H.G. Shaw was driving his buggy through the countryside when he stumbled upon a landed spacecraft. According to Shaw, the vessel was roughly 25 feet in diameter and 150 feet long. It had a metallic outer surface and, other than what appeared to be a rudder, was completely devoid of any additional external features. He observed three strange, slender creatures moving about the aircraft emitting a “strange warbling noise.” The creatures approached him and attempted to force him on board, but the Colonel, obviously being a strong, brave man and totally not embellishing his story at all, quickly overpowered them and fled. perhaps they were just teens. perhaps 16 and plowed right into him.
